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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper’s granddaughter Sarah digs into the family ancestry, she finds characters who obviously did it all—the good and the bad, with details yet to come.
In keeping with the current resistance to accepting honest historical accounts, however, the keeper should probably intercede at some point to make heroes of horse thieves, shrewd investors of bank robbers, and genius benefactors from irresponsible vagabonds.
That would, of course, be a fool’s errand, and would carry on an apparent clan inclination to act impulsively and then deal with the consequences.
So, in the style of Howard Zinn and his “The People’s History,” Sarah and the keeper relish their ancestral truth—even when it is brutal; and they entertain a vague hope that the clan will continue its circus-like climb out of the primordial muck where Big Lies and Racism thrive.
