The Barnes Cemetery

Oh, before I forget, my mom tells me that those tall spindly daisies that are growing like weeds in my yard (because they are weeds) are called… Poop Daisies! Apparently because they grow happiest in cow patties. To liven everything in my yard up, I am going to stick “poop” on the front of it. [...]

The Barnes Cemetery

Today

In spite of my best efforts and loading up on Off, so far it’s a three-tick day. Edited to add: Four!  I just pulled a fourth tick off me.  I have ticks all in my pants, apparently.  The Barnes Cemetery is well-protected, let me tell you.

John Rich for Governor

What do you even say to news like this? If it happens, it’s going to be a treat to watch.

Lone Wolves

I know I’ve been remiss in talking about Pvt. Long’s killer and I know it seems weird, especially in the wake of my running around “We’re all going to die!” after Tiller was killed. But here’s the truth of the matter.  It’s easy for me to talk about things that feel like they have a [...]

Breaking News

My parents arrive today and I have cleaned my tub.  The rest of the house is in total chaos, but the tub is clean. I take my victories where I can get them.

More and More on May Town Center

If you want to hear me speculate on archaeological surveys and chastize folks who make finding protected sites easy-peasy, go check out my newest post for Pith.

The Things in My Yard that Please Me This Evening

Another Wikipedia Footnote?!

Okay, come on. Who is doing this?! This time I’ve been accused of making personal attacks on Karin Agness.  And I got listed before Feministe, to which I can only say, “In your face, Feministe.  Your brand of girl-positive group feminist blogging has been bested by this old cranky loner!”

When It Comes to Tennessee Conservatives, You Can’t Make This Shit Up

So, Woods has part of the story: After ramming through their resolution this session to strip abortion rights out of the state constitution, Republicans now want to eliminate $1.5 million for a study of how to combat infant mortality in Tennessee. And, damn straight that is mind-boggling enough. But at the same time this was [...]

Passed Along with Little Comment

They had a bomb scare at an women’s health center that provides abortions in Memphis last night. Coincidentally, yesterday, Steve Ross reminded folks that Roeder promised more actions against abortion clinics.  Hmm.  And yet we’re still supposed to believe he was a lone nutjob.  Even though he said there’d be more trouble and there’s more [...]

Things on My Mind

1. Yesterday, a guy got pissed at me and actually said “you’re a blogger,” like it was something disgusting.  He apologized about it later, but it still tickles me so much.  I mean, I may just be a blogger, but you’re the fool who’s pissed at a blogger. So, where’s that put you? 2.  I’ve [...]

The Butcher is Right

The Butcher is like the world’s straightest guy, which cracks me up, because, after almost twenty-nine years, he’s finally gotten a feel for what women like and, when it comes to white guys, he’s figured out that girls like the guys from Supernatural. Unfortunately, the Butcher cannot tell good looking white guys apart.  So, whenever [...]

Look Here

Holy god, what a day.  I hate that they’re all like “elderly man kills guard at Holocaust museum” as if the fact that he’s old is the salient point.  Why don’t the headlines say “White Supremacist kills guard at Holocaust museum.”?  Must we obfuscate? Anyway, here’s a cool video by Roseanne Cash.  First person to [...]

Operation Rescue

At this point in the story, my credulity is so strained that I think it’s in danger of snapping. Dr. Tiller’s murderer regularly hangs out on Operation Rescue websites.  He’s in regular contact with Operation Rescue workers.  When he’s arrested, he has the name and phone number of an Operation Rescue person in his car. [...]

What I Wish for Mrs. Wigglebottom

So, we went to the vet yesterday and got her stitches out.  They asked us to put a muzzle on her and she was all growling and snapping even at the Butcher until her grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and calmed her down.  I asked them if they didn’t just want to [...]

The Aftermath

Is the Clairmont Lounge a Feminist Strip Joint?

As the Professor and I were lounging in the hammocks in my back yard, drinking lemonade and looking over the freshly-weeded garden, we began contemplating whether you could consider the Clairmont Lounge a feminist strip joint. As y’all may remember, Exador took me there once upon a time and I loved it. And the Professor [...]

Take ‘Em Away

I have a love/hate relationship with Old Crow Medicine Show.  (And I have a sense of deja vu that I have written this post before, but what the hell? If you can’t hear me tell you the same things eighty times, you’re not truly knowing me.)  I love them, but it’s a cringing love and [...]

CCA Not in the Business of Having a Conscience

Hispanic Nashville Notebook has information on the new documentary about children locked in the Hutto prison. John also has an interview with the CCA spokesperson. I quote this part because I refuse to be alone in having my mind boggled by the sheer audacity of it: Our government customers don’t ask us our opinions on [...]

An Open Letter to H.K. Edgerton

Dear Mr. Edgerton, I, too, think that Dave Chappelle’s “Clayton Bigsby” skit is one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever seen. And I, too, still feel bummed that Chappelle has moved on from The Chappelle Show. But I just have to believe that turning that skit into a piece of performance art is going [...]

High Water Everywhere

A dear friend’s grandma died this weekend.  Another dear friend lost her mom. A gal I know in Memphis is only barely scraping by. And I was looking to be distracted tonight, but couldn’t find anything to distract me. I feel out of touch and like I am spending most of my time living the [...]

I Like American Music

I have to second Southern Beale here.  Wasn’t it just the other day when country music was trying to shed it’s “the music of racist white people” image? And now CMT is inviting Bill O’Reilly to town? If I were a Unitarian Universalist in this state, I would take that as a spit in the [...]

Two Questions About Commercials You May Have Seen

1. When a facial cream helps prevent sun spots, are they talking about freckles?! 2. I have seen, only once, this commercial that is trying to get money for some kind of childhood leukemia and the whole thing goes something like this: [Ominous voice] Fifty years ago, if a hundred children contracted this kind of [...]

Does Tim Pawlenty Not Know Who Eminem Is?

I’ve been laughing about this all morning, this idea that young Republicans should be like Eminem, and, when accosted by seemingly-gay, seemingly-unfriendly forces, fight back. I mean, good god damn, where does one even start in on how hilarious this is? 1. I wouldn’t call Eminem a Democrat, but he was for sure one of [...]