10. Way too earnest.

"I suspect you didn't pay one lick of attention to politics until America elected a Black President, and now you get all your political information from Russia funded propaganda outlets."

-Snoofy

And now these people are breeding.

I don't know if anyone has posted the story, but people naming their son Donald is at an all-time low.

fyi

Sounds like something A.J. Liebling would have written about!

#250 | Posted by snoofy

That grandfather had an interesting nickname that my brother and I never got anyone to explain. But as my brother put it one time, "I had a friend named Milk Crate. He got that name because he beat the ---- out of a guy with a milk crate once."

Simple enough.

245. Suspecting / hoping your dad had a strong union?

Among other family stories. I asked my father once what my maternal grandfather did now (knowing he'd in the past had a storefront that covered a bookmaking operation).

He thought for a moment and said, "I think he provides muscle for the newspaper union."

I heart New York.

I have a wonderful picture of Grandpa in Havana in 1949. Didn't look like he and his buddies were there on a beach vacation.

Is that why the kids with promise (the girls) left?

#239 | Posted by snoofy

"There's only one good thing about a small town
There's only one good use for a small town
There's only one good thing about a small town
You know that you want to get out

When you're growing up in a small town
You know you'll grow down in a small town
There's only one good use for a small town
You hate it -- and you know you'll have to leave."

Lou Reed, on Andy Warhol (and Pittsburgh!)

I'm amazed at the young people my sons' ages who went to college and came back to small-town Appalachia. They seem to be comfortable ... and I'd say living below potential that could emerge if they moved to what are often derided here as cities in absolute peril.

240.

I've been asked at different times of my life to explain how I lose weight.

I tell people I wouldn't recommend it, but it's called the fear and anxiety diet.

I graduated in 1980 and went straight to work (first job, often mandated 10- or 12-hour days, sometimes six or seven days a week) at $5 an hour.

No college debt because my "thrifty" father seems to have put me on the payroll of the family business at age six, among other serious grifting. I was earning money and unknowingly contributing to Social Security until, oddly enough, I went to work full-time at age 20.

Thanks, Dad.

Too bad it wasn't a fish wrapped in a newspaper.

I've never met a Chicago School economist who wasn't personally a cold fish. Smart, but missing some crucial human element.

Two guys, one woman. The guys are husbands of my wife's friends. Condescending AF.

My father was a businessman on Staten Island. One time he ran a credit application on a guy who had just built an eight-foot brick wall around his compound.

Job listed on application: Laborer.

We distribute income on a bell curve and the bottom 20% are poor.

#29 | Posted by eberly

We do? They are?

18. Virginia is a commonwealth. You'll find a different set of justice in the county.

Cities in Virginia are not in counties. Independent governments.

Not a knock against rural living.

Next: The closet.

"Return to the lifestyle of his youth."

That's some funny -----.

RIP.

Please don't let this age Andrea Mitchell any more.

It's the New World order. Bush I's fault.

Dark as the inside of a wrestler's unitard. He knows.

Yes, I know. That's my imagination, and the date is intentional.

13: I moved from near there to NoVa.

What I've learned in 26 years in Virginia:

It doesn't matter how close to a big city you are. If you're in the county as opposed to a Town or City, you're on your own.

11. Another view: Those with enough power who work toward nuclear peace will make future life uncomfortable for themselves.

John F. Kennedy, 1964

"but live in TN, VA, KY..."

Cumberland Gap and surroundings for 100 miles also not for the feint of heart.

OneNut and LftHndThrds.

Careful posters, you've engaged the DR brain trust.

Don't more Alaskans have pilot's licenses than driver's licenses?

Hell, they've got private planes. What do we have here in the lower 48? Uber?

The world's doing just fine. You don't have to make all ends meet. Just one at a time by whatever means, then start running from away from the next one. Been there, done that.

It's the American way.

Debt kills.

"I hate you, Jews. You killed my lord and savior."

Dumfuk, your lord and savior was Jewish.