Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Do Southerners Have the Right to be Described as "Native Americans"?

"Southerners who celebrate their cultural heritage, are among the most misunderstood people in America. Italians who celebrate Colombus Day, and Irishmen who celebrate St. Patricks Day, never have to suffer the grief that Southerners who want to celebrate Robert E. Lee's Birthday have to endure."

Monday, October 4, 2010

Life On The Mississippi

"The only things my chickens won't eat are celery and onion skins, because even a chicken knows that eating celery is like Keynesian stimulus, a waste of time and energy, costing more to consume than the act will generate."
-- Thomas Luongo, in the essay How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Respect the Chicken
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".......as for the contents of his skull, they could have changed place with the contents of a pie and nobody would have been the worse off for it but the pie." More HERE.