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Pay no attention to those gas prices

By J. Danton Smith On February 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

We’ve all noticed rising gas prices. I have no doubt Obama will be blamed for this. Funny thing is demand seems to be down and prices seem to be up.  That’s not how things are supposed to work. For some time now the price of gas seems to have had little or no [...]

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Romney, Santorum, and the Mississippi Black Snake

By Op Ed On February 21, 2012 · 1 Comment

Editor’s note: Readers…we apologize for allowing an unedited version of this submission to be previously posted. All errors have been addressed and the following is for your reading pleasure.


This presidential election cycle is producing somewhat of an anomaly on the political radar. Certainly sex and politics have been bedfellows in the [...]

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Fanaticism and ignorance

By Op Ed On February 18, 2012 · 2 Comments

I arrived in San Francisco, via Oakland, in the winter of 1967, a few seasons into the “Summer of Love.” It was a world that shouldn’t and couldn’t exist. We smoked grass, dropped Owsley acid, experimented with psilocybin, peyote and mescaline. We “balled” who we pleased without fear of recrimination from our friends or [...]

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Jim Tract is gone

By Nathan Bell On February 17, 2012 · 1 Comment

Jim Tract is Gone

 Songwriting is a wonderful thing.

 Professional songwriting is a miserable thing.

 The business of songwriting is a miserable business.

 Jim Tract came to Nashville looking to change that

 Jim didn’t just talk a good game.

 Jim took a million dollars and started [...]

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I’ll think a church is a person when one gets pregnant.

By J. Danton Smith On February 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I’m a bit saddened and a bit outraged at how so many people, including our courts, mangle the Constitution in order to get it to support their position. The current debate over contraception, health insurance, and the Catholic Church is just another example of this. I don’t know who first said they’d view corporations [...]

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