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If I were a better writer and could match the skills of even the most middling of authors, life in Putnam County, New York would make quite excellent reading. But so few publishers would believe what I had written as genuine they'd have to place my book in the fiction section of bookstores and the fantasy section of libraries. But I can assure you that what we experience here as residents is real and genuine even though it reads -- and too often feels -- as if we're living in a 1950's Central American Banana Republic.

In only a very few other places around the world, perhaps in one of those central Asian "stans" no one can pronounce, could we write about the depths of malfeasance that passes for government in our bucolic 240 square miles. If Voltaire or Shalom Aleichem were alive today even they could not have surpassed the fantastical mysteries and ironies that abound in our every day lives.

I write a thrice-weekly column called News That Matters wherein I try to take an objective look at the news and events that shape our lives. People attempt to place the column in a box, denoting it as "liberal" or "conservative" and they are free to do so but they would be wrong each and every time.

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Saturday, April 23, 2011
You Want Guns With That?
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With all the noise coming from The Senator Who Shall Not Be Named (NY Senator Greg Ball) and the NRA about threats to gun ownership you'd think that so few Americans own guns that any laws passed regarding them would make them suddenly disappear leaving the nation at the mercy of Fijian terrorists hell-bent on raping our dogs and kicking our women. (Or is that the other way around? Nevermind.)

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