I’m taking my family to

I’m taking my family to South Dakota for the 4th, in part because South Dakota is a state where it is still legal to blow stuff up with relatively powerful explosives. So the Trunk’s meditations on the Declaration of Independence may be interrupted from time to time by my more banal musings on the joys of gunpowder

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