Zippo

I bought a new Zippo lighter not long ago. Actually, it's an early Father's Day gift.

I smoke cigars. Not a lot, but some, say three a week. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

My Dad OTOH, smoked several a day. It seems I rarely saw him without one. And yep, he carried a Zippo.

Some cigar aficionados tell you to never use a Zippo as the lighter fluid taste 'leaks' into the smoke. It's true. Butane is better or even better, wood matches (Let the sulphur burn down completely because that taste can leak too.). But my Dad had a Zippo.

Some object to smoking. So much so that in Franklin Indiana it's banned except in bars and homes. Ya can't even light up at the VFW. That's progress the smoke nazis say. It's not.

It's a 'camel's nose in the tent like seatbelts and helmets etc. Good ideas in and of themselves they say. For our own good. But there is NO choice. Like oh how about a permit to carry or to (fill in the blank). Begging gov to protect etc ourselves. And regulating ANY firearms. 24,000+ gunlaws including GCA 68 and NFA 34.

And prags say we are still a Republic. We haven't been for a century at least. Mind you, it's been a slow slide. But we have slid into a big mudpit cum sh** pit of democracy made slick with regulations in all fields.

Don't panic. Figure it out. Take a step at a time. Make a stand. Strike a spark.

Maybe there will be 'brushfires in the minds of men' as Sammy Adams said.

Just a note that even buying a Zippo can get one thinking.