Monthly Archives: October 2018

NO UP OR DOWN By Peter Nolan Smith

The 1960s Space Race between the USSR and USA exterminated young boys’ worship of westerns and we retired cowboy hats, vests, guns, and holsters to the closet next to toy boats and teddy bears. During the autumn of 1962 I pleaded with my parents to buy me an astronaut costume for Halloween and my father […]

Rolling Up the Sidewalks

I’ve been predicting the end of cars for years. My late father debunked my soothsaying with the comment, “You don’t know what you’re talking about. They’ll always be cars.” In the 1930s his father was a country doctor in Maine and drove to his patients in a sled. Only in the winter. The above picture […]

Mercedes E Class For The 50 Million

The Mercedes-Benz ad for the E Class offers a depopulated vision of future. There is no traffic. There are no people on the streets. Robots drive the E Class. The new slavery without the masses. And you never have to whip a robot to obey an order from the masters. This is your tomorrow. World […]

Banned From Facebook

A Paris friend reported a Facebook ban for posting an invitation for the fabulous Palace Disco featuring a naked woman. It was neither pornographic nor obscene, except to the Taliban and America’s religious right. I protested their decision by posting a shot of porno star Marc Stevens dancing at Studio 54. Naked. Within minutes I […]

The Reign Of A Nationalist

Last spring my friend was driving me across Dutchess County to catch the train in Dover Plains. The road passed through rural community surrounded by billionaires’ estates. We passed through an abandoned village and the last house flew a Rebel flag in the front yard. I told my friend to stop. “Why?” “Because I’m going […]