Dr. Tiller

I don’t have anything to add, really. I wish the same thing I wished after the Knoxville shooting–that these media personalities would stop to consider that, while they’re using their culture war rhetoric to drive up ratings, there are people who listen to them and take them seriously.  If you’re going to accuse someone of [...]

It’s Quite Hot in My Yard

Sunday Gardening

My plan still remains for the vining things to vine away in the big plot.  And I cannot wait for pumpkin blooms, which I consider to be one of the most beautiful things a person can witness in public.  I believe there’s still more than enough room for that all to happen successfully.  But I [...]

Wasted Days and Wasted Niiiights

I would like to complain, once more, that weeding the garden with the dog is virtually impossible, unless one loves watching all your awesome plants get trampled.  In which case, I have the garden helper for you.
I did, however, find two watermelon plants I previously was unaware of.  So, that was nice.
This morning we took [...]

The More You Know, The More You Wish You Didn’t, Sometimes

I have found that trying to get a sense of the Native American history of Davidson County is not that easy.  For starters, there’s the “dark and bloody ground” myth which has developed into a story about how no Native Americans lived here–though many groups hunted here–because it was cursed, so they were happy to [...]

In Which I Say a Nice Thing about John Rich

He looks very handsome and interesting in his mug shot.  There’s finally a little of that cornered dog look in his eyes.

Well, There’s No Way THIS Could Go Wrong

Did y’all see SB1141? I got an email from TIRRC about it this morning and I’m embarrassed to say that my very first thought was that they must be mistaken.  But no.  SB1141 says:
When a person is arrested for any offense and is confined, for any period, in the jail of the county or any [...]

Bone-Chilling Sound of Doom

I had been more than happy to believe that the $4,000 the dog is going to cost me this year would count as the “one major thing that will make you vomit it will cost so much” that would go wrong with the house in the first year that everyone warned me about.  I had [...]

Who Did This?

Which ever one of you put Tiny Cat Pants up as a reference for the Wikipedia entry for “Pencil Skirt,” you have made my whole day.
Thanks.

On Another Note

I thought this post was one of the nicest things I’ve read on the internet in a long time.  I know “nice” is a strange word for it, but I like posts that are, at heart, about how the sausage gets made and who, in fact, is making the sausage and how they think about [...]

You Laugh and Cry at the Same Time

It’s gotten so bad at Fort Campbell that the senior officer yesterday ordered his soldiers to stop committing suicide.
Who knows?  Maybe it will work.  Something sure needs to.
I have said it before, but I’ll say it again.  We cannot treat the men and women in our armed forces this way.  If the general public won’t [...]

Quick Things

1. You know I’m right so stop fighting with me.  A party like the TNGOP can only for so long manage to make every racial faux pas known to human kind before a person starts to believe that they aren’t faux pas-es, but actual real pas. At this point, I’m just hoping that they break [...]

The Prison

So, my newest post is up at Pith.  Blake Wylie helped me a shit-ton.  I meant to ask him, too, on an unrelated note, if he felt my other brother had made an appropriate choice for a fishing gun, but I couldn’t remember what kind of gun the other brother was using as his fishing [...]

Really. Really?

Via Twitter:

The TNGOP is really running around calling a black man “Uncle”?
In public?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Sweet Jesus, you couldn’t make shit like that up.

Three Sisters

So, yeah, the whole “three sisters” planting concept is not going so hot, basically because the corn finked out.  In the future, if I do it again, I’ll plant the corn first and get it above ground before I plant the beans and squash, because right now my beans are ready to wrap and the [...]

At This Point, I Could Get Behind an “Eyes on your Own Paper” Party

The “Eyes on Your Own Paper” party would be like the Libertarians but with less “I am a Rock, I am an Island” sing-alongs.  Ha, can Libertarians even have sing-alongs?
Probably not.  Okay, let’s say “I am a rock; I am an island” sing-alones.
Anyway, I tease because I love.
The one thing I’ve been mulling over after [...]

Two Points Worth Considering

1.  Michael Silence points out that while the state legislature is busy supporting homeschoolers in Germany who they feel might have some vague kind of trouble that they haven’t bothered to learn too much about, more state employees are looking at losing their jobs.
2.  The Ghost of Midwesterners Past made such a good point about [...]

Oh, Poor Puppy

Ooo Ooo

I forgot to link to my last Pith thing, which is about this awesome conversation I had this weekend at the International Country Music Conference.
And here’s my second to the last thing.  It’s me sticking up for Robin Smith.
Shoot, for a day off, we’ve been busy.  We took the dog to the vet.  Left the [...]

Those Darlins

If you knew about this band–and I’m looking at you, Murfreesboro–and you didn’t tell me, I’m not talking to you, ever again.
Okay, maybe not not ever again, but I will give you dirty looks.
I’d like to declare “Wild One” Mrs. Wigglebottom’s theme song.

Mrs. Wigglebottom

We had to leave her at the vet so that they could fix her ear.  She has a subdermal hemotoma, which I think means that House will have to come in and kill her three times only to figure out at the last second that she has a tick on her she got from misbehaving [...]

When You Dream of What You’re Doing

I dreamed I was taking Mrs. Wigglebottom to the vet.  I then got up to take Mrs. Wigglebottom to the vet.  While she’s getting her yearly stuff, she’s getting her ear checked out.  I’m hoping there will be no need for gruesome details, but you know, if there are gruesome details to be shared, I [...]

Weekend Images

Home, Home on the Couch, Where the Dog and the Brother Slouch

Y’all, we had such a nice time today, even though we got terribly lost and could never find places to pee when we wanted and got terribly lost some more and then, just when we thought we couldn’t be any more lost, got more lost again.  We almost got into two accidents and drove through [...]

Road Trip!

The recalcitrant brother and I are going on a road trip, just as soon as we get up and around and moving.  We’ve never been stuck in a car together alone, so hopefully it will be fun.  I’m looking forward to it, anyway.  And it’s raining!  So the lavendar I planted is set and the [...]