Euripides, “Hekabe.” (Trans. Anne Carson, in GRIEF LESSONS.)

Now is the season of meeting with 20 different advisors. . . .

Boycott Wendy’s. http://ift.tt/1xPhW4I #CIW

Boycott Wendy’s. http://ift.tt/1xPhW4I #CIW

Early Shakira is apparently the perfect accompaniment to Herodotus bk. VII. Huh.

Really though is there anyone in the history of country music who is as meta as David Allan Coe?

Yoooo so if your plan is to make the point that all different kinds of people come from a state, and you want to insist people shouldn’t stereotype others as ignorant or bigoted solely on where they came from, then I’m pretty sure I agree with you about that. But maybe you shouldn’t use “not everyone from the state is some bigoted hillbilly” while you are expressing this point. Because if “hillbilly” is a putdown you find yourself easily trafficking in then we do need to have a bit of a talk about regional stereotyping, but maybe not the talk you thought you were going to have.

OK, can we agree that “Listen, ______ist!” is at this point a little bit played out as a title

David E. Whisnant, ALL THAT IS NATIVE AND FINE: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. Ch. 1, “Hindman Settlement School.”

huh, so I guess the main thing I can say about NBC’s “Chicago PD” show is that it does seem to be as happily, unapologetically fascist as the actual Chicago Police Department.