Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps, But Not Too Far

The other thing I really don’t understand about this is how Republicans calling someone “elite” is supposed to be an insult.  Isn’t that what Republicanism promises?  That if you work really hard, you will be rewarded?  That rich people deserve their money and successful people deserve their success?
So then why for a Republican would calling [...]

Like Those Folks Who Shop at Harris Teeter?

The fact that BILL HOBBS could call anyone an arrogant, insufferable elitist and not be struck dead by lightning immediately just proves how much the gods love me and want me to be entertained.
Here’s the thing. Every single person on the planet can see this for what it is. Hobbs insulted a man’s [...]

The Beaver

Saturday, I was listening to The Beaver, which is some radio station in the hinterlands and I was having a good time because they were playing songs I have no compunction about singing at the top of my lungs, even in front of strangers–”Family Tradition,” “Shut Up and Kiss Me,” “Forever and Ever, Amen,” and [...]

And “Tennessee Sounds Good to Me” Had Such a Nice Ring

Well, thanks to William Howard Hobbs, it appears that the new phrase most closely associated with our state is going to be “Tennessee, lay off my wife.”
America, I swear, we are all not like this. Please, feel free to come visit. We have great cities and beautiful countryside to play in and, in [...]

We Could Come to an Arrangement

So, yesterday, Hutchmo put me in his convertable (seriously, he was all like “I’ll come get you” and I was like “Oh, no need” and he insisted and then he pulled up and I laughed like a school girl) and drove me around his neck of the woods to look at Germantown, Salemtown, Hope Gardens, [...]