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AX IN HAND by Peter Nolan Smith

June 10, 2020 – 4:55 pm

My mother had spent her honeymoon on Bermuda. Every winter my parents had vacationed in the Caribbean and each July my father rented a Harwichport cottage for a week. My mother loved the ocean. On summer weekends they loaded his six children into the Ford Station wagon for a drive to the beach. Massachusetts had […]

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Go Neanderthals Go

March 29, 2020 – 3:09 am

The Neanderthal dominated Europe and Asia for almost a half-million years. This species of Man vanished from the Earth 24,000 years ago. Anthropologists once blamed the fall of the Neanderthals on their stupidity, while recent studies have revealed that the ancient men had large brains than their homo sapiens descendants and were stronger and taller […]

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GUNS GUNS GUNS by Peter Nolan Smith

February 15, 2020 – 2:30 pm

American boys loved guns in the 50s. Plastic weapons lay gift-wrapped under the Christmas tree. Our movie heroes slaughtered the country’s enemies on the silver screen and tough cops performed gun ballets on prime time TV. Guns were good for the country and America was good to guns. Armed with air rifles my older brother, […]

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A Well-Maintained Militia In Richmond

January 21, 2020 – 8:54 pm

Yesterday thousands of gun-right supporters gather in Richmond to protest the Governor’s plans require background checks on weapon buyers and only allowing the purchase of one handgun per month. Donald Trump tweeted the protestors, writing at 10:42 AM, “The Democrat Party in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia are working hard to take away your 2nd […]

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White Trash Test

November 15, 2019 – 10:23 am

The Halloween pumpkin on your front porch has more teeth than your spouse. You let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the table in front of her kids. You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws. You think a woman who is “out of your league” bowls on a different night. Jack Daniel’s […]

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