Year: <span>2017</span>

Year: 2017

In Perilously Short Supply

by Mike Pyatt We’re reminded routinely that silver is severely limited, and that the big banks are buying it in enormous quantities. “Buy now!” “The good news,” they insist, “Silver’s set to go to $200 an ounce.” Don’t hold your breath. One lady posted, “Men are like parking places; the …

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Ignoring The Calamitous Outcome

by Mike Pyatt The clash in Charlottesville this past week’s a reminder that unbridled hatred has consequences. This wasn’t a protest. It was a war zone. Some may recall the Kent State University “Massacre.” On May 4, 1970, students protesting the Vietnam War, clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the …

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My Friends Up in the Sky

By Bradley Harrington “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great …

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The Blues Or Worse?

by Mike Pyatt  One needn’t comprehend the various schools of thought on despair and existentialism to understand this subject. The Carpenters popularized, Rainy Days & Mondays, with these poignant lines, “Hangin’ round with nothin’ to do but frown, Rainy days and Mondays always get me down, What I’ve got they …

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