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" Once upon a time, Carol Flake Chapman and I used to work together at The Boston Phoenix, where she was notable for being the Adrian Peterson of female arts editors during our semi-regular touch football games. Later, she wrote Redemptorama, a fine book that was one of the first deep spelunkings of what became the Christian Right. A while back, Carol wrote about her suspicions as regards one of the foundation myths of Rick Perry&amp;#039;s candidacy, which is worth another read: Perry claims that he happened to be packing his pistol that morning because he was afraid of snakes, and that it came in handy when the coyote in question &amp;quot;laser-locked&amp;quot; its attention on his daughter&amp;#039;s Labrador Retriever. He told the reporter that after &amp;quot;hollering&amp;quot; at the coyote and charging it, he proceeded to send it &amp;quot;where coyotes go&amp;quot; with just one laser-guided shot. Presumably that would be coyote never-never land. Laser-like focus is no match, apparently, for the right firearm accessory. But however many times I try to rerun this scenario in my head, it just doesn&amp;#039;t make any sense, gun-wise or coyote-wise. And I&amp;#039;m not alone in that conclusion. There&amp;#039;s something about this story that just doesn&amp;#039;t smell right to folks who know something about guns, snakes, and coyotes. Poor Governor Goodhair can&amp;#039;t catch a break. Now it looks like he may end up behind Mitt Romney even in the crucial Varmint-Killing demographic. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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