Category Archives: america

BEAR MEAT by Peter Nolan Smith

September 17, 2018 – 12:11 am

In August of 1987 Pullie Fallen, Grieg Packer, and I left New York City for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The art professor, literary agent, and I took turns driving Pullie’s F-150 pickup truck through the sweltering heat of the Midwest. None of us broke the speed limit, since Pullie had two unlicensed guns under his seat. […]

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Wendell Berry Quote On Food

August 2, 2018 – 6:09 am

I once brought a head of broccoli to the counter of a supermarket outside of Poughkeepsie. The young cashier regarded it with an alien’s disgust for earth. “What is it?” “Broccoli.” It’s one of the few words that is the same around the world. “I’ve never seen it before.” She was probably 17. “Have you […]

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The First Shot In Anger

March 26, 2018 – 2:39 am

150 years ago At 4:30am on Friday, April 12, 1861 Brigadier General Beauregard ordered the secessionist troops manning the artillery batteries of Charleston, South Carolina to open fire on Fort Sumter housing 127 federal troops of which 13 were musicians. Two hours lapse before the Yankee commander allowed Captain Abner Doubleday, the inventor of baseball, […]

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A Busy Man # 45

December 9, 2017 – 1:29 pm

Donald Trump had a busy week. He insulted North Korea’s leader by calling him ‘Little Rocket Man’. # 45 also attacked the NFL players for not honoring the flag. The White House ignored the reconstruction of hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, but Tump had the nerve to tweet, “FEMA & First Responders are doing a GREAT job […]

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Big Balls of Long John Silver

November 18, 2017 – 2:37 am

The 1991 Supreme Court Nomination hearing for Clarence Thomas was controversialized by the accusations of sexual harassment by a law professor, Anita Hill. She testified before the Senate committee that the appointee had repeatedly asked her out of a date, spoken about porno films in graphic detail, and declared his penis was the same length […]

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