Another Open Letter to SuperMousey

Dear SuperMousey,
It’s my understanding that you’ve never seen The Princess Bride.  I don’t know why your dad would deprive you of this important milestone in a young girl’s development, but I advise you to check HBO Family in the coming days and watch it.
The Dread Pirate Roberts is exactly the kind of guy every girl [...]

My Trip to the Eye Doctor

As a part of my new effort to not just sit around and wait to fall apart, I made my way to the eye doctor today.  I have thin retinas.  And I’m getting glasses to wear when I don’t have my contacts in.
I kind of love my eye doctor.  She’s the kind of eye doctor [...]

1870 Tennessee Constitution Actual Disqualifications for Holding Office

ARTICLE IX.
Disqualifications.

Section 1. Whereas Ministers of the Gospel are by their profession, dedicated to God and the care of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions; therefore, no Minister of the Gospel, or priest of any denomination whatever, shall be eligible to a seat in either [...]

If Only We Had Some Kind of Institution that Allowed Us to Force Non-White People to Work for Us for Free…

In pre-Civil War Tennessee, it was pretty straightforward, in exchange for minimal room, food, no legal claim on personhood, and the right to be whipped and have your family torn from you and moved far away from you where you’d never hear from them again, you got to work your whole life so that others [...]

Wait, You Mean It’s 8 O’clock, 8 O’clock?!

I’m with Sista Smiff.  It is too early to be eight o’clock.
Also, it looks like all this messing around with time doesn’t really do us any good.