Two Quick Things

1. Can someone explain to me why Robert Johnson has the ability to make Alabamans proud? Is he just that powerful? Did Mississippi annex Alabama over the weekend? I tease, but folks, if you want people living in the South to take your concerns about the goings on in the South, it helps if you [...]

To the Person Searching for “Suicide Beaman Park”

I’ve seen you here a couple of times and I hope you’ll pardon me for addressing you publicly.  If you’re just searching for news on whether there’s been a suicide in Beaman Park, the answer is I don’t know. If you are, by chance, contemplating committing suicide in Beaman Park, please reconsider. Yes, it’s a [...]

Day One at Home

The cats are only in mild revolt. They expected wet cat food at night, which they know they only get in the morning. And the orange cat is throwing things on the ground. The new kitty (which the Butcher insists he’s going to call her, even though I had to name her something on Monday, [...]

Since I’m Speculating…

In academia, when one sees that a person has been unable to replicate his previous successes and has to hire someone to co-write his own memoirs, one wonders if there isn’t a brilliant but unheralded ex-wife or two who “helped” with the earlier work and that’s why it’s been unreproducible.

I Did Laugh When I Read This

One of Say Uncle’s readers is all “Kelsey won because of guns!” which, I have to admit, is better than, “… because progressives can’t win elections.” or “…because bloggers have no real influence.” which is what our side has been hoping they can pedal.

Let’s Speculate about Tennessee Politics!!!

So, John Tanner is retiring. And Roy Herron is no longer running for governor; he’s going to run for Tanner’s seat in the House of Representatives. How’s that going? I’m going to give it a C-. Now, I know you’re saying “A C-? But I just heard about this. How could he already be failing [...]

A Quick Cat Update Update

So, we picked up the cat from the emergency care place, and she is doing much better. She is not out of the woods yet, but she is lurking around the edge of the woods, peaking at “good.” Ha, that’s not a great metaphor, is it? But she is eating and peeing. She’s at the [...]

Cat Update

So, I went and got her from the vet and took her to the emergency vet, where she can spend the night supervised. The situation is pretty dire. Her heart is pumping very fast but her gums are white, which is an indication that she’s not getting enough oxygen to her organs. So, something is [...]

God Damn It, Cat, I Have a Lot of Money Sunk Into You

I just heard from the vet and things are not very good with the new cat.  She got through surgery just fine (and, thank goodness, wasn’t pregnant, but did have an infected uterus). But as they were waking her up, her heart went into an arrhythmia and they had to work their magic on her [...]

Houston Charities Find Jesus

Let us recall the words of Jesus in Matthew 25:35-40: “‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, [...]

Things to Delight Your Eyes

1. Before reading the rest of this paragraph, I ask you to go look at this photo. Cool, huh? Now, let me ask you a question about said photo. Is that horse drinking a beer? 2. Every once in a while Mary Mancini will post something from the Smithville Review to Twitter (@marymancini, if you [...]

Morning Roundup Roundup

My weekly morning roundup is up over at Pith.  I mention this because even non-Nashville folks will love the last two stories, I think. And had I seen this over at Say Uncle’s, I surely would have included it. Oh Lt. Governor Ramsey, I kind of love you a little bit, now. And even my [...]