287(g) Means Stealing Babies from Mothers

I just read this post from Ginger and I gasped out loud. She links to a post over at Tim Chavez’s about Juana Villegas DeLaPaz, who was coming from a prenatal clinic when she was pulled over by a Berry Hill police officer. It’s not clear from Chavez’s account why she was pulled [...]

Oh, Come On

Unbelievable.
Maynard also accused school board members of “a dereliction of duty” because—incredibly enough—they didn’t seek legal advice on whether their actions could expose Metro to a lawsuit.
I honestly do not mind if my tax dollars go towards education.  I’m not one of those folks who’s all “Well, I don’t have kids so I don’t want [...]

Los Rosales

Oh my god.  Nashville blogosphere, you said that place was great and you didn’t lie.  I had this thing I saw on… oops, I just looked.  I did not have the thing I saw on Laura Creekmore’s blog.  I had that but not with spinach; I had beef instead; but I intended to order the [...]

Tiny Pasture Dips His Toe in the Feminist Theorizing

So, I’m reading along at Post Politics… school board… blah, blah, blah… resegregation… blah, blah, blah… when what should I see at the end of this post?
A fan of red lipstick and pearls? What the heck was that little aside about? Isn’t red lipstick like the default color for lipstick? Don’t a majority of women [...]

Every House Will Have Some Problem

So, we looked at a house yesterday that was amazing.  Big front porch, cute side porch, little back porch.  Tin roof.  Big living room, generous dining room, nice kitchen.  Three bedrooms (argh, they’re wearing me down!  Calling something with a door to the outside a bedroom!) and one bath, work shop, garage, cellar, about an [...]

Sometimes, I Think the Goal is to Wear You Down and Keep You Stupid

Tom over at Functional Ambivalent has a post about the thing that annoys me most about the South–that strain of folks who take pride in being willfully ignorant (not that there aren’t a whole lot of people all over the nation who aren’t willfully ignorant–there are–I’m just not familiar with any other part of the [...]