Oh, Pro-Life Activists, Why Must You Be Such Immoral Asshats?

Y’all, this is so rich I about can’t believe it.   And I hate to give it any more hits than it deserves (which is clearly none), but you have to see this to believe it.
I have been linked to by a pro-life blog.  No, not just a pro-life blog, which I would be fine with.  [...]

I am All Over the Place

Y’all, I will be on the internet version of Liberadio on Friday.
I will be in my garden all weekend.
And I will be guest-blogging at Feministe the last week of August and the first week of September.
Also, I did download the new Those Darlins album and it is awesome. It has everything a good country album [...]

Cooter Talk

Well, really, more some PCOS talk.  I read yesterday over at Jezebel about this study in Sweden that links exercise and electro-acupuncture to a fixing of PCOS.
And, y’all, it made me very angry.
Not the good self-righteous anger where you know you’re right and the world is wrong and god damn it, folks had better start [...]

Giving Women $1,000 to Have a Baby

I haven’t seen anyone point out the obvious yet, but I’m just going to say it.  There is absolutely NOTHING surprising about Steve Waldman advocating trying to come up with a small, suitable, not unseemly fee we might pay pregnant women who would otherwise have abortions to have their babies and then give them up [...]

A Brief Announcement

One of my favorite people now has a blog.  You should read it.

A Review and a Preview

The preview: Y’all!  You can already get Those Darlins’ album from iTunes!  I am trying my very hardest not to download it here at work, even though I so need to spend the whole afternoon listening to it.  But look at the song list!  They do a version of “Who’s that Knocking at My Window?” [...]

The Thing(s) that Bug(s) Me about Jon & Kate +8

I think I may have posted about this before, but I’m too lazy to look.  I was, however, talking about this this weekend and still thinking about it on the way home.
I have not watched that many episodes of this show and never a whole one all the way through.  But when flipping by, I [...]

True Blood, Season Two, Episode Three, I Think

Still on the fence about “Hung.”
Is Suky just butt-ass stupid? And that minotaur thing was, um, yes, well, let’s hope it improves from here, shall we?
Oh, I kind of love foaming at the mouth version of Suki.
I love Erik.  Good lord, he’s hilarious.
Oh, Eddie.  I’m glad to see you again, too.  Even if you’re just [...]

Lots of Photos

My Trip to Hooterville

The evening ended with me flipping over playing cards and telling fortunes to my hosts in the kitchen. Everything has an opinion on the future, if you know how to discern it.  Cooks can get a feel for a burning fire long before the milk scorches just by reading the flames.  A farmer can tell [...]

Lord I was Born a Ramblin’ Gal, Tryin’ to Tell the Difference Between a Bucket and a Pail

Okay, I think we all can see now why no girl-groups cover “Ramblin’ Man.”
Though I am going to be spending a good portion of my drive thinking about the word “pail” which is so weird already.  Like, you know how there are some words you have to say over and over again–bucket, bucket, bucket, bucket, [...]

I Can’t Wait

As many of you know, in my spare time I pretend to be in a fake The Joiners cover band.  Well, it looks like there’s about to be a bunch of new material I will pretend to learn!
Hurray!

Feel Good Friday the *Snerk* Edition

Ha. That does make me feel good.

No Band-Aids

I was looking at the iconic poster of her in her red bathing suit yesterday and trying to figure out what about it didn’t square with my memories.  I had friends who had brothers who had that poster.
And this morning it dawned on me.  I never saw that poster with nipples.
All my friends’ moms (and [...]

The Obligatory Two Thoughts About Michael Jackson

1.  Dude was fucked up.  From the time he was little and his dad beat the shit out of him and everyone stood back and let it happen because they didn’t want to lose their meal ticket straight on through.  So, I don’t know what to make of his music, you know.  I’d like to [...]

Ward Cammack, Shining Beacon of Justice

So, Ward Cammack is a Democrat running for Governor of the State of Tennessee.  He also belongs to the Belle Meade Country Club, which, for some reason can only find one black person in the whole world “right” for membership, and, fortunately, this black guy lives in Atlanta, which is four hours away, so that, [...]

I Come to the Garden Alone, While the Dew is Still on the Roses

Okay, so I was not alone and I don’t have any rose blossoms left.  But Lesley and I were out in my garden, which I swear I was in very recently and noticed nothing of interest, when we looked into the cucumber plants and found…
Actual cucumbers!
That grew in my garden!  And then sat there in [...]

Vacation Bible School is Not for The Kids

At lunch today we were talking about Coble’s post about vacation Bible school (or VBS, for the hip) and NM was asking if it wasn’t just basically a big old baby-sitting thing.
And as she was asking, I realized what it is that VBS is supposed to do, at least for us small town Midwestern girls, [...]

Tonight

If you’re coming, pull all the way in and park in the back (brave souls can park on the grass) and come in the back door.  There will be no food so eat dinner before you get here.  But I will let you walk around my haunted back yard and admire my pumpkins.
Edited to add: [...]

“Hey, It Happens to Everyone.”

When a young person tells you she’s been sexually assaulted, is it weird to day, “This happens to everyone, you’re not alone.”?  You don’t want to seem dismissive, like it happens to everyone, so it’s just a part of life, so suck it up and get over it already.  But you want to say “Hey, [...]

Things that Made Me Laugh

1. Theogeo’s review of the new Transformers movie.  So true about the white pants.
2. Daisy, this one’s for you–in which I argue that Mark Sanford is misunderstanding Hank Snow.
3. I got asked yesterday to guest blog at Feministe!  I will let you know when when I know when. But, yeah, I’m tickled.

Oh, Tuesday, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck

Y’all, about the only thing that can cheer me up is a sad song from a guy being backed by a full brass band.  And I don’t even know if it’s really sad, because I can’t speak Spanish.
I would shake my fist at fate, but I really don’t want to attract fate’s attention right now.
[...]

Hurray! The Butcher is Home

The Butcher was dog-sitting for some friends just west of here, which meant that I saw him for about three seconds each day as he came home to grab some clothes or to take a shower.
It’s nice to have the house to yourself, but it’s nice when there’s someone else to witness the weird behavior [...]

Sinning for God

Ta-Nehisi Coates today has a post about Martin Luther King in which he quotes some of King’s bedroom utterances.  The one that charmed me is “I’m fucking for God!”
As I said over there, I love this, not because I like the idea of King cheating on his wife, but because it sounds just like something [...]

ICE’s New/Old Policy: Stop Giving Us Your Traffic Offenders

One wonders if this is ICE’s way of confirming that Nashville has been scamming the federal government out of money by incarcerating and then charging the Feds for everybody they could stop in a car who couldn’t prove they were a U.S. citizen.
One also wonders why, if Sheriff Hall wants so much to be an [...]