Let me first start off by saying, that if any of you haven’t read the Promethean Times, you should give them a shot, they are very funny and satirical. Which he usually puts out new articles Monday through Friday, but then on the weekends we go through withdraws. Now that being said, we met the now famous writer, Smaktakula, while in our senior year of High School, if you can imagine, gas was under a buck, the Berlin Wall was being torn down, the first season of the Simpsons was airing, the World Series was delayed for 10 days due to an earthquake,  Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death, the Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing, the Ayatollah Khomeini dies in Iran,  the Exxon Valdez oil spill, just to name a few.  There was a lot of major news stories hitting the airwaves back in the day while kids frolicked to and fro to school. Smaktakula, was the savvy smart kid in school with his thumb on the pulse of his generation, seeing beyond the petty walls of high school, to the global issues, of the day. We were a little more of the outsider, the anarchist in statist clothing. We learned a lot from Smaktakula, how to take the outside information and put it through the prism of reason and evidence.  Then just as we were getting to know each other, High School ended…It was almost 20 years later, while logged on to facebook, that we got a friend request from Smaktakula, all the emotions came flooding back and we were like… 

It been a few years now since that friend request, and as we sit and write this,  all we can think of what Smaktakula will say is…