Month: October 2016

  • Clay County Blues

    An article from The Tennessean appeared on my news feed a few months back. It was an article about how Donald Trump has captured the imagination of a county neighboring the ones where I grew up in northern middle Tennessee. Clay County. Although named after statesman Henry Clay, it seems apt that the “people of…

  • What a Real Conspiracy Looks Like

    I would like to describe an incident where the media, the American public, and the political establishment were in cahoots to tear down an American personality for no good reason. In 2004, Justin Timberlake exposed a great deal of Janet Jackson’s right breast during the Super Bowl halftime show. The fallout from the “wardrobe malfunction”…

  • This is Not a Cruise Line Advertisement

    I disembarked from a five-day cruise two days ago. And I have one thing to say. Ahhhhh. Said cruise was my fifth in three years, and I have a sixth lined up in six weeks. As you might imagine, I have developed a thing for cruise vacations. And now it’s my turn to indoctrinate you.…