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Blood on His Cheeks and Hands
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith called the latest school massacre in Winder, GA “pure evil.” Smith was among the predictable chorus of voices who ascribe demonic forces at work every time children (and adults) are slaughtered in America. Colt Gray,…
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Nelson’s Corner | August 2024
E-bikes, and technology generally, are going to be the ruin of us. Full disclosures: I have a lifelong love affair with bicycles and I am writing this on a MacBook Air. The bicycle is among humankind’s most elegant inventions. Having…
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Many Things, Not “Weird”
There’s a great deal to like about the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz phenomenon. I, like many millions, feel guarded optimism, not the chronic despair that preceded Biden’s abdication. But there is a dimension to the enthusiasm that is slightly troubling, particularly…
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Nelson’s Corner | July 2024
A most remarkable statistic: My high school, grades 10-12, had 3,200 students. Not a single one was gay, lesbian or trans. What on earth has happened? It is not that no one was suspected. It was rumored that Sharon was…
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Get In The Damn Boat!
Politics aside, I can’t imagine any more satisfying end to Trump than to be soundly thrashed by a woman – a woman of color no less. In a rare explosion of Democratic Party sanity, Biden’s withdrawal glided smoothly into what…
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This IS Who We Are
“This is not who we are!” – President Joe Biden and several million others in response to the assassination attempt. As is the case in mass shooting after mass shooting, all the attention is diverted from the real issue of…
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Joe Must Go
As so many others have expressed, within a minute into the ill-named “debate,” I knew it was a certain train wreck. Biden looked like so many old men I observe going into a restaurant, for example, slack-jawed and confused –…
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