Category: Southern Scene

Something Wrong in West Virginia

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‘Adults’ Instigate Kids Beating Missouri Lesbian

What kind of seeds are you sowing, America? How proud you must be. Perhaps you didn’t see the Southern Poverty Law Center’s info about anti-Gay groups and their propaganda a few years back.

Alabama Governor Bentley Sticks Foot in Mouth, Again

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley seems to like the taste of his own toes. He sticks his foot in his mouth so often that people down south have taken to calling him “Goober” after the character on the Andy Griffith Show…

How Much Heat Can We Take Before We Attack Global Warming?

How to Save the Planet and Fix the Economy Too The Big Picture Just how hot does it have to get before the people of the United States finally acknowledge that global warming is happening? When are we going to…

Suite: Occupy Little Rock

Movement the First: To Protest or Not It started with a spark. A Canadian spark no less, when the Adbusters Media Foundation came up with an idea to Occupy Wall Street. That spark started the occupation in Liberty Plaza Park…

Eat Southern Foods!

The Southern Food & Beverage Museum declared Sunday, Oct. 11 to be the first Southern Food Heritage Day. (Luckily, I started early by eating fried Oreos from the Arkansas State Fair.) If you don’t have any idea what to make…

Celebrating National Parks’ Week

MONTICELLO, Ark. — All apologies for the lack of posts in September. But as promised, a cross-post from my personal blog when it relates to the South. For those wondering, this week’s celebrating the U.S. National Parks and Ken Burns’…

Eureka Springs’ Blues Festival Gives Back

Breathing good, I’m in the yard workin’ but I saw this and though I should pass it on; yes, folks, the following is a press release but ya know … -rws ******* Buy tickets now for the 2009 Eureka Springs…

Secret Vistas: The Great Smoky Mountains

National Park Celebrates 75th Anniversary Glynn Wilson A rock tunnel beckons as you enter the Great Smoky Mountains National Park… by Glynn Wilson GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS — When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood at Newfound Gap with one foot in…

Science Wins Over Religion in Scopes Monkey Trial?

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species Turns 150 Glynn Wilson The famous Rhea County Courthouse, where the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial took place Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson DAYTON, Tenn. — Forty-three years after the death of British…