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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.

Hoglets.

Alright, I have the last of the frozen yams from last fall’s CSA season and I have a half dozen eggs from this spring’s CSA season, it’s time for some sweet potato pie up in here.

Lysander Spooner is really pretty cool tho.

This is an inane, ghastly mass celebration of a man 500 years dead, who has no possible merit to recommend him other than the fact that he fought a hideous war for naked power, that for a time he sat on the top of a heap of corpses, and that for a time he wore the worthless robes of a Head of State. In 500 years I suppose we can line the streets to salute the reinterment of Mr. Stalin’s mortal remains. «The discovery has encouraged scholars to look again at Richard’s record of social reform, rather than rely on Shakespeare’s Tudor-era portrayal of him as a villainous tyrant murderer.» Of course the Tudors spread a lot of ridiculous propaganda. But good God of course Richard III was a villainous tyrant murderer. He was a King, after all. http://ift.tt/1G2igON

This is an inane, ghastly mass celebration of a man 500 years dead, who has no possible merit to recommend him other than the fact that he fought a hideous war for naked power, that for a time he sat on the top of a heap of corpses, and that for a time he wore the worthless robes of a Head of State. In 500 years I suppose we can line the streets to salute the reinterment of Mr. Stalin’s mortal remains. «The discovery has encouraged scholars to look again at Richard’s record of social reform, rather than rely on Shakespeare’s Tudor-era portrayal of him as a villainous tyrant murderer.» Of course the Tudors spread a lot of ridiculous propaganda. But good God of course Richard III was a villainous tyrant murderer. He was a King, after all. http://ift.tt/1G2igON