An Open Letter to Pith in the Wind

Dear Pith, I love your new design so much that I wrote this little poem about it. Oh Pith, I delight in your new design Look, it’s so crisp and clean and so refined It’s the best thing on these intertubes But Hargrove’s still not getting near my boobs. That’s right, Pith, I love your [...]

After Last Night’s Dinner

The cat is still traumatized.  The dining room chair is in pieces on the floor and I am riddled with sore spots.  The chair thing isn’t that interesting, just at one moment I was at eye-level with the people at the table and the next minute I was at eye-level with the dog and I [...]

Ooooooo.

The new Pith is so pretty!

White Flight

I’m in the middle of Kevin Kruse’s White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, and I just cannot recommend it enough, so far.  My only complaint is that Princeton University Press put 43 lines to the page so you feel like you have to slog through about eight million words before you get [...]

The Giant Donut-Fueled Conspiracy to Kill Babies

You just could not make stuff like this up. It’s almost a PETA-level shenanigan. where you almost wonder if the American Life League isn’t a Planned Parenthood front.  I mean, “Anti-abortion people want to steal your donuts”?!  Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.  Well, fine.  If that’s what it takes.  First they wanted to [...]

Why Yes I Do Love Brightly Colored Whimsy. Why Do You Ask?

I thought y’all might appreciate an update on the various projects going on at our house. The bottle tree is… well… it’s not that cool actually.  Except first thing in the morning, when the sun is bright and low on the horizon and it hits those bottles and the whole thing just sparkles up like [...]

MIHOW on YouTube

I’m sure you all remember me telling you about the MIHOW program and how great it is and blah blah blah.  Well, they’ve got a video up now on the internet! which you should check out because… well, because why not?

Sean’s Right

If “English Only/First” doesn’t pass, I will faint in shock.  But I was talking to John Lamb about this and he said, and I believe him, that even if it does pass, this won’t be the end of it.  This is an issue perfectly designed for Crafton to ride it for as long as he [...]

Jesus Take the State

Vibinc says: Republicans, how are you going to make Tennessee better? How do you intend to use these three planks to benefit the people of the state of Tennessee? How will your 3G platform provide economic development and jobs to the thousands of Tennesseans who are either out of work or underemployed? How will the [...]

A Story in Which I Ruin Children

When I was in grad school, I tutored this kid whose mom had sent him to a private Christian school because it was the best school in town.  He was not Christian.  And he had a question on one of his tests–”How do we know that so-and-so is a Christ figure?” Well, let me tell [...]

Encapsulating Stupidity and Pettiness Since 2004

Shoot.  Has it been that long?  This blog is going to turn five in the fall?  Should I plan on sending it to kindergarten? Anyway, listen.  I think we need to have just a brief “state of the blog” address here.  See, this thing you are reading, it’s just some words put on a screen [...]

Gentlemen! Come to our aid!

I know you don’t like looking in each other’s crotchal regions, but it’s for science!  Could you go over there and explain what’s going on with that man’s stuff?

Now is Not the Time, Nor, More Importantly, the Place

I want to talk about David Hawk getting up in front of the Tennessee legislature and preaching, but before I can even get that far, we must talk theology, just for a minute.  Please turn your attention to I wake up hoping and praying to live a sin-free life just like Christ did. Every day [...]

30 Pieces of Silver

So, let me get this straight, Bill Hobbs thinks what Kent Williams did is the equivalent of betraying Jesus?!  The TNGOP are now, collectively, somehow, Christ? Holy shit! Just when I start to feel a little bad for them, they’re all, “Yeah, Jesus and us, we’ve suffered.”  If there is a just and loving god, [...]

To Plug in or Not to Plug In

So, the high today is going to be twenty.  We have, in our garage, a cord that you can plug in that supposedly goes to some doohickey on the pipes to keep them warm enough to keep them open.  We have never tested said doohickey, so we don’t even know if it works.  But, if [...]

Oh, No, No, No

Okay, I’m all for shenanigans, but this is too much.  It’s one thing to out-snooker the Republicans, but creating a whole other position so that Naifeh can keep his job? No.  Absolutely not.

What Did Go Wrong with Gretchen Wilson?

Jim Malec is on the verge of kicking her out of country music and I can’t say that I blame him.  I just wonder–what went wrong?  Is she a natural ballad singer stuck in an endless cycle of forever more derivative versions of “Redneck Woman”?  Is it because she stopped writing her own material?  Is [...]

One Last Thought on the Republicans

I’m frankly pleased and surprised to see how well-read some of them appear to be, as they hunt around for just the right literary analogy.

The Witch on the Mentalist

I was, frankly, speechless.  It was so bad.  So, so, bad.  So bad I’m having to kick Robin Tunney out of The Craft in retrospect. Edited to add: Wow, there seems to be a ton of people googling this episode.  If y’all are looking for more information on the episode and a more serious discussion [...]

In Which I Respectfully Disagree

There are times when you have to complain during sex.  I’m sorry.  There just are.  Jam your elbow into my boob, for instance?  I’m complaining.  Claim you’re up for a threesome and then fail to rise to the occassion?  Dude, I’m probably still complaining about that on the internet a decade later. Otherwise, yes, good [...]

Keeping the Caucus Together

It’ll be interesting to see whether the Republicans keep Williams or if they kick him out.  The threat was that, if anyone didn’t vote the way the Repubs wanted, he or she was out of the Party.  And Robin Smith certainly has made it clear that Wiliams is a traitor and not a real Republican. [...]

Yep, Another Case of those Elites Ruining it For the White Supremacists

S-town Mike is following the whole Crafton thing more closely than I can bear.  And apparently now Crafton is pissing and moaning because some liberal elites want to keep him from oppressing foreigners.  Yes, I kid you not: Eric Crafton thinks it is unfair that some shadowy group of liberal elites is keeping him and [...]

State Troopers. Really?

I don’t think we’ve had this much excitement at the State Legislature since Harry T. Burn gave women the right to vote: It should be noted that after Burn cast his historic vote, he hid in the attic of the capitol until the maddening crowds cleared away.  It is also rumored that the anti-suffragists were [...]

Yes, Yes, Roger, We Promise to Mope Tomorrow

But come on!  It’s not like the Democrats were going to open their hearts to the more progressive among us anyway, so we didn’t actually lose anything at all.  But I still consider this post of yours a valient effort to rain on our parade.

Holy Macaroni!

Did this really just happen?  Did the Democrats really just pull that off?!