Eye on the ‘Boro:
Standing near a line of early voters, looking into their faces, listening to them, one sees:
Determination...to buck some prevailing attitudes on race; and
Determination not to let the quiche eaters elect some black guy.
At this moment a funeral procession motors past. The autos/pickups carried a slice of blue-collar whites. And here comes a pickup with a huge American flag … Like 4 by 12. On the other side of the truck was the familiar Confederate battle flag.
There are two motors driving this huge presidential voter turnout.
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Sporting News picked what it calls the 400 best sports towns in America. Boston is No. 1. No argument there. Nashville is 14. Some other ranked towns:
New York (4), Atlanta (19), Miami (22), New Orleans, San Diego and Cincinnati (26, 27, 28), Memphis (56), Louisville (58), Murfreesboro (123), Chattanooga (166), Martin (219), Cookeville (233), Kodak, Tenn. (330) and Burlington, N.C. (400).
Others included Cape Girardeau at 249, Blues Creek, N.C. at 250 and Talladega at 282 … below Blues Creek?
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-- Winston Churchill
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Older woman in western part of state settled into her hairdresser’s chair. “Well,” she ventured, “what do you think of Obama?”
Her hairdresser bent low over her and huskily whispered, “I hope someone kills him.”
(Without the benefit of one day’s legal training, before making remarks like this further research is necessary. Such an utterance well may be in violation of federal laws.)
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The two grandfatherly men were strangers but in a Wal-Mart aisle, one walked up to the other and, motioning to a presumed grandson in his shopping cart said, “This boy is being bad. You want to take him home with you?” The boy, about 3, looked up at the stranger with angry inquisitive eyes.
“I’ll take him. I have a dog who’s just as bad as he can be and no one can play with him. This guy looks perfect.”
Later, the two crossed paths again, this time in produce. The one with the boy gave the other a sly thumbs up.
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Q. I’d like to make a group of college students behave like morons. Any suggestions?
A. Point a TV camera at them.
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The bad news is that the Martians have landed in Manhattan and taken over the Ritz Carleton. The good news: they eat homeless people and pee gasoline.
-- Kurt Vonnegut in Armageddon in Retrospect
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