So I saw a bumper sticker recently in my hometown of Paris, Tennessee that I have never seen anywhere. It was the gay flag with the following inscription: Warning! The driver is gay. Let's set aside for the moment the connexion between child abuse and same-sex attraction and why this man should probably be pitied,… Continue reading Warning! The driver is gay! He’s also courageous.
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.
Roll up the red carpet Southern Man!
All peoples everywhere have mannerisms, traditions, habits, and customs that will cause an outsider to form a stereotype, and this includes Southerners. We are particularly well known for being friendly, and, having seen some of the world myself, I think we deserve this praise. It is one of our great cultural legacies. I am 54 and I… Continue reading Roll up the red carpet Southern Man!
Crumbling Church, Crumbling Army
A quick qualifying remark. I write from the bleachers with a beer in one hand and a hotdog in the other as informed or ill-informed as my friends who came with me and the temporary friends that I'll make in the stands. I make observations about the game below and those playing it. But I… Continue reading Crumbling Church, Crumbling Army
Nullification Today
Gov. Mike Parson of Missouri recently signed HB 85 or the Second Amendment Preservation Act which nullifies federal laws and regulations 'that infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment' in the state of Missouri. We need to be reminded that the rights of states vs. those… Continue reading Nullification Today
The Southern Man, A Whipped Dog
My daddy gave me two spankings when I was little bitty that I remember. Both were deserved and effective. To this day I am careful not to splash water all over the bathroom floor or to play on the furniture. Additionally if the eighty-two-year-old man told me today to run out to his truck to… Continue reading The Southern Man, A Whipped Dog
Intelligent Design remains the last man standing and the Confederate flag yet waves.
Note to my blog subscribers: I apologise that you are receiving this twice. The first version somehow slipped through our editing cracks and was published prematurely. As we continue to digest 2020, Southerners must never lose sight of why our Confederate monuments were so targeted for removal. It is not because today any serious adult… Continue reading Intelligent Design remains the last man standing and the Confederate flag yet waves.
Looking at the Bright Side
Conservatives have every reason to be depressed. Like the Armenians, we too were beaten last November and beaten badly. But I think it is better to compare us to the Russians in the fall of 1941 or our own ancestors on the 8th of December of the same year. The Germans and Japanese seemed unstoppable,… Continue reading Looking at the Bright Side
Why the Left is intent on erasing the past.
It bears repeating (and I am painting with a wide brush here) that the religion of Progressivism despises the past and tradition. The past because it was imperfect and tradition because it carries the imperfect past into the future. Progressives after all are utopians at heart and mean to create heaven on earth. You know,… Continue reading Why the Left is intent on erasing the past.
Home of the Fed, Land of the Complacent: The New American Peasant
Is it possible that we simply cannot remain free? Not as our ancestors imagined they were or the way we think of America as the Land of the Free. Is it possible that freedom today is akin to a round bale left in the field? In time it just rots away. What if American freedom… Continue reading Home of the Fed, Land of the Complacent: The New American Peasant
The Link Between Same-Sex Attraction and Child Abuse
In what way are we not a product of our childhood? Obviously, I resemble my parents and would have even if I had been adopted at birth by a Mongolian couple and raised on a galloping pony. But I was in fact raised by my parents, and older folks now long gone who knew my… Continue reading The Link Between Same-Sex Attraction and Child Abuse
Look Away... 