For those that are not familiar with Josh Duggar, I have added an excerpt straight from Wikipedia down below. Key points to remember are his original claim to fame was that he was the eldest of 19 children in the old reality TV series 19 Kids and Counting and that he is now on trial… Continue reading On Josh Duggar, Christian Perverts, the Media, and We the Mob
Author: M.C. Atkins
I have six wee bairns who are all seventh-generation Henry County, Tennessee, and all from the same doe. It is the people of Henry County that I most want to reach but I am writing to Southerners generally. I am without credentials but rather dare to speak by the same authority as the little boy who cried 'The king has no clothes!' My core belief and starting point is that like everything, we humans have a nature, it is not so hard to understand, and to pretend that it is other than it is, is to jump off a cliff. Which is what we Americans have in fact done.
Flogging: Let’s bring it back.
In some Southern county in the middle of a work day, three men had just finished hitching a 16’ trailer to their truck when the owner of the trailer, a building contractor, stepped out of his house. Not accustomed to strangers on his property hitching up his trailer in the middle of the day, his eyes… Continue reading Flogging: Let’s bring it back.
Modern education is a colossal waste of time for most of us, and soul-crushing for too many.
We have inherited several assumptions about how to educate our children that are just not true, including that educating requires 6-8 hours per day, nine months a year, for 13 years, and must be done by professionals. None of this is true. These are not requirements. What is true is that we humans educate our young.… Continue reading Modern education is a colossal waste of time for most of us, and soul-crushing for too many.
A Quick Thought: On Kyle
Man has since the beginning of time been led by simple ideas that speak volumes. Ideas that are often associated with symbols and images. Christ on the cross being the most potent symbol of all time and certainly for the West. Likewise those who would lead have used simple ideas that become memories to control… Continue reading A Quick Thought: On Kyle
Hope Against an Endless Revolution: What happened to the Boy Scouts of America?
I think I wrote the following column for my local paper, the Paris Post Intelligencer, about eight years ago. I think it remains relevant so am re-posting here on my blog. I have only made a few small edits. I do not know the current state of the Boy Scouts of America except that I… Continue reading Hope Against an Endless Revolution: What happened to the Boy Scouts of America?
You’re depraved. I’m just kinky.
We in the South have forgotten just how hateful and vicious pre-war Abolitionists were in their attacks on Southerners and the ancient practice of slavery. In a short period of time these descendants of the New England Puritans had decided that slavery was an evil, and being Yankees (New Englanders), everyone else had to immediately… Continue reading You’re depraved. I’m just kinky.
The Bimbo, The Bitch, the Butch
Which of the women in the picture above would you want to bear and raise your children if you had to choose based solely on what you see? Ok, a gun is pointed at your head. Pick or you never conceive again. Assuming that all four are marriageable and well within their childbearing years, who… Continue reading The Bimbo, The Bitch, the Butch
An Enemy That Cannot Be Defeated Is Mighty Handy
Imagine that you are among those who possess true power within the power structures of the U.S. Naturally your power rests upon the way things are, upon the power structure that has been built over time. That means that in one form or another your power rests upon the federal government and/or the United States’ network… Continue reading An Enemy That Cannot Be Defeated Is Mighty Handy
Federalism and the City State, or a New Civil War
By 1860 our country was so hopelessly divided that it broke up, and only by force was it kept unified. While the North and South had profound political, economic, and moral differences, institutional slavery being paramount, the two halves had a great deal in common, so much so that after the bloodletting and rage subsided,… Continue reading Federalism and the City State, or a New Civil War
Old People, Young People, Waging War Together
If the lifespan of man is upwards of eighty years, then my question is, has there been an eighty-year-old man anywhere on the planet during the last 500 years who did not live through momentous changes or a momentous event? Eighty-year-olds today certainly have. Every morning across the country, 80-year-olds and their young 60-year-old friends… Continue reading Old People, Young People, Waging War Together
Look Away... 