Missing the mark

Most of us who live in the area recognize that the popular local store known as Cherokee Guns is fond of using its advertising as the sort of in-your-face provocations that are more or less “red meat” for the MAGA base that seems to be the store’s target audience. See the above photo for a … Read more

White Trash White House

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.” Thus spoke U.S. President Donald Trump on his Truth … Read more

Across the Great Divide

Georgia State Road 197 intersects U.S. 76 between Hiawassee and Clayton, Georgia, plunging south through Moccasin Creek State Park and the mountains of the Chattahoochee National Forest until it dumps Helen-bound motorcyclists onto Georgia State Road 356. From there you’ll follow the scenic, twisting two-lane through the valleys and mountains, past Unicoi State Park, and … Read more

North Carolina vet vindicated in illegal arrest following peaceful flag-burning protest

News arrived this morning that Trump’s misshapen Department of Justice has dropped the prosecution of an Arden, North Carolina, man who pointed out the illegality of a Trump so-called executive order designed to make it illegal to burn an American flag. Flag-burning as a form of protest has been settled U.S. law for more than … Read more

‘No Kings’ gathering draws hundreds in Hayesville, N.C.

Several hundred people turned out Saturday, Oct. 18, in Hayesville, North Carolina, for a “No Kings” rally to oppose Donald Trump’s continuing destruction of the country’s constitutional safeguards. The peaceful gathering brought families, couples and solo sign-carries to Hayesville’s Main Street — also known as Business U.S. 64 — lining both sides of the roadway … Read more

The News of the Day

All has become a boggy black bitterness thick with infectious insect swarms: the headlines, the subheads, the first graf and the last. All of it. The smirking vice president at the Kennedy Center amid boos. The head of Homeland Security in western boots, tight jeans, dark mascara and a scornful frown. All of it. The … Read more