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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Somebody on Twitter summed it up this way -- the current conservative position is:

1. Disney movies don’t have enough romance

2. Young people aren’t having enough sex to reproduce themselves

3. But the mice in Maus shouldn’t be naked

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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Hilarious as always. Now I want one of Dreher's armbands.

If they really wanted to do something about the discomfort of students, they'd get rid of Regents exams.

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Jan 28, 2022·edited Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

God is this funny!

You must have kin from down thataway.

Let's put stupid people on the Board of Education. That's not a good plan.. (I misspelled " Education" as "Efucation". Pronounced "FU -cation", that's a pretty accurate description! )

Erskine Caldwell got famous writing unbelievably lurid sagas about simple country folk in the thirties. He understood them pretty well I think.

"It was still not too late to begin, but Jeeter did not have a mule, and he did not have the credit to purchase seed-cotton and guano at the stores. Up until this year, he had lived in the hope that something would happen at the last moment to provide a mule and credit, but now it seemed to him that there was no use hoping for anything any more. He could still look forward to the following year when he could perhaps raise a crop of cotton, but it was an anticipation not so keen as it once had been. He had felt himself sink lower and lower, his condition fall further and further, year after year, until now his trust in God and the land was at the stage where further disappointment might easily cause him to lose his mind and reason. He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life."

Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road

I am from rural Ohio. I worsh up in the crick. My friends in Kentucky

wash up in the creek.

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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I find the whole McMinn County thing deeply disturbing. I grew up in a community with many Holocaust survivors. I look at McMinn as just one more step toward erasing the Holocaust from American memory. It's a path that leads inexorably to Holocaust denial, which is what the Nazi wannabes have been reaching for for decades.

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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Must be me, but as overly mocking of the good people of the (presumably inbred) holler as this is, it yet wasn't enough.

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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

The McMinn school board has vowed to find an age appropriate book about the Holocaust to replace “Maus,” one without cuss words, naked mice, Nazis, corpses, ovens… They’ll be announcing their choice as soon as Jim Davis writes it.

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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Just FYI: From McMinnville to Dayton, TN (site of the Scopes Trial) is about 60 miles due southeast as the crow flies, or 68 miles by car--you have to go around a mountain.

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From the McMinn County transcript (https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1818370/Called_Meeting_Minutes_1-10-22.pdf)

“Not saying that there is not important material, I’ve read it and read through all of it and the parts it talks about the father, the father is the guy that went through the Holocaust, I really enjoyed, I liked it,”

Must be a matter of taste, my grandparents didn't mention enjoying it so much...

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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

And you have actually caused me to look up a book on Amazon, which I can get for free because I have Amazon Prime and yes I am a sell out.

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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Boy, they are not gonna like what's going on in Dino Ranch, I'll tell you that. There may not be any cartoons they can watch.

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Let us pause to appreciate the lapidary care with which the author rendered that exotic dialect. That kinda typin' ain't easy.

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Jan 28, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

To be fair, it's the consistent Conservative position that ALL real human suffering must be ignored, when it's not being mocked.

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>… gaps filled with dried mud and caulk

Fancy!—why should Good Americans™ listen to these rich elitists?

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Sometimes I think you over-do it a bit (almost, but not quite to the point of some sort of reverse... something). Then my best bud from Baltimore says, "nah, that's about right."

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Oh, jeez, Roy. First, didn't think I'd ever have any use for these leftover sets and costumes from "Li'l Abner" but I can repurpose the Jubilation T. Cornpone statue for chairman Moogly. Otherwise, I am destroyed by two stage directions and a line. Taking minutes on the back of a coal shovel! BLACKOUT in close proximity to "The Boondocks." The line: Thass thet trans-sexualism ol’ Rod Dreher tol’ us about when he come through heah sellin’ armbands!

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Any time you can work "corn crib" into a piece, you've got a winner.

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