That Leaves Only Me to Blame, But You Can’t Blame Me if I Set this Stage on Fire

Someday someone is going to write a brilliant book about the commonalities of rap and country music–the stress on authenticity, the violence, the hypermasculinity, ect.–and I will read it and I will say “Oh, so that’s what’s going on.”
Because, for me, it’s not enough to say “Well, they emerged from similar circumstances etc. etc. etc.”  [...]

Well, We’re Restructuring the Schools

It’ll be interesting to see if and when the lawsuits start flying or if creating one school full of the poorest, non-white students will go unchallenged because no one who suffers under this has enough money to hire a lawyer.  The important thing to keep an eye on in this story is the following:
The Tennessee [...]

A Link for the Pesky Fly Alone

I know that’s not going to stop the rest of you from clicking, but whatever. Pesky, I think you’ll either find this cool or sacrilegious.  Or both.

In Which I Solve Nashville’s School Zoning Problem.

So, we’re rezoning the schools in Nashville, resulting, entirely coincidently, in a great majority of the poor black kids in town being shuttled to one school. DB had convinced me that it wasn’t as simple as that, but, if Pedro Garcia is being honest, it seems as if the rezoning may be, in part, [...]

“Calumniating, misrepresenting and traducing?”

We may need a North American historian for this!
As you recall, we talked about Odinists v. heathens v. Wodanists, etc. the other day and now Richard Nokes brings up the Odinists over at Unlocked Wordhoard.
I, too, tried to locate where these Odinists were pulling the phrase “caluminiating, misrepresenting, and traducing” from, but it took me [...]

Don’t Mess With America’s Pets

I was just thinking how funny it is that Michael Vick’s dogs have, for the most part, found a way to live in the world in relative happiness and peace and Vick is now filing for bankruptcy.  Let this be a lesson.  You fuck with dogs; life will fuck with you.
It got me wondering if [...]

Are You, Or Are You Currently Living With, a Teenager?

Here’s the deal. I sent the Butcher to drive by a house this morning and see if it looked okay (it’s a foreclosure, but it doesn’t appear to have been stripped and the price, if it’s in okay condition, is almost too good to be true) and if the neighborhood is okay (it’s just [...]

The Woman I Hate

So, I had to go out to Donelson yesterday to be professionally developed, which actually turned out to be kind of interesting, though a little weirdly culty for my tastes. Anyway, I was sitting at a table with a very nice woman who had come in clear from Bowling Green, when we were joined by [...]