Contributor: Jerry Guarino - -     On a recent road trip to Canada, I discovered a most unusual business in Oregon.  Fireworks.  I’m not talking about the stands they have in other states, where you can pick up some sparklers, firecrackers and bottle rockets.  No, in Oregon they have thrown out the public safety ordinances cities usually impose on explosives.  In fact, they seem to embrace it.  Huge tents, the size of a Ringling Brother’s circus, house millions of implements of destruction from the iconic firecracker to something comparable to C4, napalm and nuclear missiles.     But the most intriguing aspect of this free-for-all business was that for the most part, these huge tents are manned (uh, womaned?) by teenage girls; school clubs, sports teams, cheerleaders; all the...

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Author: Jerry Guarino