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The Guano Caucus

By on August 21, 2021

Guano Point sits 75 miles north of Kingman, Arizona, on the southern lip of the Western Grand Canyon, and on it perches the remnants of a tramway system, a launching point for failed dreams and a missing 99,000 tons of guano.  We’ll return in a bit to the missing guano.  As Roger Smith tells the […]

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Bulwer Lytton of the Caliche

By on August 16, 2021

“The corporate communist globalist satanic Uniparty is the faction our founders warned us about,” Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers tweeted August 4.  It’s the type of unhinged comment we now expect from Sen. Rogers, but it would also make a great first sentence for a spy thriller— okay, a hilariously-awful one.  Or take the grandstanding of […]

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