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Golden Retriever
A story of gods and goddesses, the Vietnam War and love
So Who the Heck is this Lee Smith?
James Wiley: author of Time Was
Lee Smith, author of several novels, including Publish
America's Golden
Retriever, and many short stories including two tales in the recently published anthology,
Three Naked Ladies Playing Cellos.
Lee Smith, a writer's Eric Hoffer, worked in shipbuilding and building construction for 18
years, taught high-school, and community college for 25 years. He has a Masters degree in
education and a Bachelors degree in Applied Science and Technology. He has authored four
textbooks for Delmar Publishers,
Albany
New York
, and four computer programs for Ebsco Curriculum Development,
Birmingham
AL
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Want to make some money? Let's start a panic
We all thrill at the presence of a panic. It gives us a
tingle and a sense of really being alive. Tell us a ghost story and we're
all ears. You might suspect that as a race we all anticipate the end of the
world or at least the end of the city or state in which we live. In simian
colonies it only takes one panicky screaming chimp to enflame the whole
tribe into action; any action, so long as it is violent and noisy.
To the dispassionate human onlooker there is no reason and we smile
and take another handful of popcorn. To the monkey, it is engrained in his
personality to react instantly when someone else in the tribe panics because
it could be a leopard on the prowl and the leopard could be very close by
and he who reacts the quickest is the most likely to survive.
We are not monkeys by any means but we do thrill to a panic. Call it
instinct. Tell us that the computers are all going to go wacky on a specific
date and in no time those who take delight in fear mongering have us buying
tents and stocking our storage spaces with freeze dried food. It could
really be true, you know. Maybe this time it's true. Remember that nuclear
winter? I heard that almost
happened. We should have a call circle prepared so that we can keep in
touch. Flashlights! Suppose the
electricity goes out?. This time for maybe weeks. And you know what? We
like it.
These panics happen periodically and the thing that we should realize is
that someone always profits. And sometimes it is the same people who started
the scare. Can you imagine that?
Scientists are not immune. Grants multiply like rabbits if the scare works
properly. Medical labs are
working 24 hours a day compounding serums for flu shots for a disease that
is less deadly than the same old flu we've been contracting for years. Not
so long ago we braced ourselves for the definitely coming new ice age. And
don't forget the population explosion that was mathematically proven to be
the cause of a coming world wide starvation by the year 1975. Nope, no siree,
there would be no avoiding it. Lots of studies and world leader meetings. Oh
yes. So now it's global warming. I like it. You know what?
I think I'll write a bestseller, get rich. Call it .. hmmm .. An
Insignificant Truth or something like that. And did you hear the latest?
In 2012 a solar flare is apt to wipe us all off the face of the
earth. That is unless we get into the group who is going to be sheltered in
a hollow mountain in
Utah
with the high muckty mucks.
Cap and Trade, how would you like to get in on that
one?
Look at me. I'm all tingly.
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CORNHUSK
L.Lee Smith, Conservative,
Constitutionalist, DEMOCRAT
Skeptic, Optimist, thinks that government's natural tendency is to reach
for total control of everything and that we are free only to the extent
that we can fight for the freedoms we have left..hat was
Our Sacred Honor
that!
Pals until the food show up.
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