"[/quote]Seriously? Well I'm sorry that it rubs you the wrong way, but as far as I'm concerned, they can do it all game long. I suppose you would go and spend a million dollars on trying to research how our dear college embraced race and slavery 100 years ago and how we can sing Kum by Ah to everyon...

It seems to be there's a pretty important difference between celebrating a historical figure despite their flaws and mistakes and celebrating one because of their flaws and mistakes. Washington is primarily known for things other than slaveholding. Davis's, Lee's, and Jackson's relevance to history...

More glorious FAKE NEWS from the source - WIKIPEDIA - Topic Davidson Men's BB Hall of Fame BB honorees: Steph Curry '17, and he has graduated this year, too. Wonderful thing that First Amendment. Not sure whether you are joking, but just in case not: There's a big difference between what in all pro...

Generalizing from what remains a small "n" of bad apples can be risky, wrong and "bad science" of the sort assailed in this very forum. Apply the same logic to people in jobs most people admire -- volunteer firefighters, for example -- and see how generalizing feels. Does one arsonist firefighter ca...

"Especially since no one ever checks the statistical work and computer code that is so critical to the results." -- Stan


As each of us knows so well, all generalizations are false.

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FWIW, a true redneck would understand the differences between redneck and white trash.[/quote]


They are kissin' cousins, no doubt.

Or whether the PBR comes from the company's brewery in Bhopal.

Depends on the type of gun someone has put to my head.

It's been over 50 years since I read it (summer before DU, per reading list) the first time, and I think I reread parts of it maybe 20 years ago, but I'd still suggest W.J. Cash's The Mind of the South . I was expecting mint juleps on the veranda, but found a description of Southern textile mill cu...

Read "White Trash" This White Trash? http://www.themillions.com/2016/07/white-lives-matter-nancy-isenbergs-white-trash.html "Danville, Va., the gritty Southern mill town where my parents were born and raised, is a city born out of slavery." Hmm. I wonder if Dr. Bliss has ever been anywhere near the...

Yep that's the book.

Read "White Trash" and see if you would post this again.

Will he ever have that recipe again?

She is young and alive. My libido is old and dead. So it goes.

"Might want to think about contributing to other threads"....

I already have a bit and may continue to do so if the mood strikes.