Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology—one that has been with us since prehistory. (I did not know we had telephones in prehistory, but hey-you learn something new everyday.) And to this day, even if its everyday use has been supplanted by newer technology, the axe is used as a murder weapon. From the first axe over a half a million years ago, to Lizzie Borden, to So I Married An Axe Murderer, Rachel McCarthy […]