I have got to make the mackerel version sometime in the not too distant future.

Larson, Breathed, and Watterson were prophets and we were all too stupid in the 80's to see it.

Core memory unlocked.

Who knew there were so many Burton Wheeler wanna-bes in waiting?

Chile today, hot tamale.

That is the hardest lesson for some people to learn.

Ah man, and I'm so far past peak t-shirt....
But I must.

New dream job just dropped.

Ultra-skeet!

Peak Grinnell thinking.

Every law school has at least one prof who desperately signals his coolness by playing guitar.

Oh man, it has been waaaaay too long since I've had kimchi jiggae.

Dang.
I wish my family was big enough to do bone-in ham.

Crime and culpability are woven through the whole work. He's using his realistic assessment of what his maddened troops will do as a threat to compel surrender. The dialogue around the fire in Act 4 Scene 1 could be seen as a further discussion on that question.

I'm not a drinker, but for Iowa, probably a Busch Light and Templeton Rye. Hawkeye tailgaters, please feel free to correct.

This is one of the big reasons I love listening to the 70's Casey Kasem replay every Saturday. It forces me to reexamine and contextualize music I vaguely remember from my parents' station wagon era.
The great stuff is fantastic. And songs like "Disco Lucy" show what drove some of the backlash.

The only good thing you can say about this is that Bogino is going to be chapped until his last day that he's not the other profile.

A certain percentage of media people these days see everything through a celebri-tainment/reality TV lens.

There's the subset of the bluesky population who have decided that this is the place to free the inner self that's forced to seethe politely through faculty and department meetings.

It is his true character, he just doesn't get to Lil'Abner/Snuffy Smith his way out of it.

If you take "Hillbilly Elegy" as a deep & faithful insight into the culture of white Appalachian-Americans (and not simply the sad tale one effed up Ohio family) then, of course, how could he be anything else?
Some song about the snake telling you what he was before you picked him up, or something.

Thank you.

That line is real. It used to be Balsam but A'ville started reaching west. Bryson City and Sylva were mountain mill towns not that long ago.

There was always some of that in Cashiers, High Hampton & all that, but when they finally finished upgrading the highways from Atlanta to the state line (Olympics '96), that's when it started getting crazy. Very different from Asheville money.

Jackson County is a strange place.

There was always poverty - real grinding straight-pipe into the creek for sewer poverty, but it's deeper than it was and broader across the population. And at the same time the gulf between those folks and people who can live a comfortable life has stretched into a canyon.

Lucky people in that cohort inherit the family home/land but it's hard to keep the place up on WalMart or casino pay. If they don't there's almost nowhere both decent & affordable left to rent anymore. Meanwhile colossal wealth can be found a 1/2 mile away.

Speaking as someone who lived in the rough midway point in that drive for many years: it has changed a lot in good and bad ways. There's more money but it's much less evenly spread. The quality life jobs that don't require much higher ed - textiles, wood/furniture, are pretty much gone.

Israel continuing to hit Lebanon feeds part of the IRGC narrative. Have any of the bigger players ever given a damn about Lebanon other than as a board on which to play out their games?

It's the perfect blend of arrogance, laziness, ignorance, and brutishness. And he's sloppy drunk on it.