While still transferring entries from the old blog, I ran into a Palmetto State article featuring Joe “You Lie” Wilson, part of the family that owns that outfit. Here is an somewhat updated article on the company, which very, very much wants to arm those folks wanting to take over our country and presumably throw a lot of us into the camps.
Category Archives: Rants & Raves
The Price of Poverty
A telling discussion on the cost of being poor in this country.
Zoot Suits: A Fashion Movement that Sparked Mexican American Resistance
Fashion as resistance.
In short, they will hate you even when you look good. Maybe especially then.
BAJITO Y DESPACITO: From barbacoa to barbecue and back
Gustavo Arellano on the food that unites different folks. We aren’t that different, we just different ways of doing tasty things.
The Indigenous People of Mni Sota Makoce
A starter guide to this both native and local.
Shootings spotlight ‘alarming’ jump in violence against rural Minnesota officers
So, this story ran today and kept getting referred back to all day.
Thing is, it pisses me off.
Sure, no one should be shot while on the job. That’s a given. And no, the story does not gloss over the fact that there is no trend, just a statistical anomaly for the year. It stinks, it shouldn’t be happening.
All said, you know what else shouldn’t be said? An executive director for a sheriff’s association is quoted in the story that basically this is all Black Lives Matters fault.
No, really.
In a story about police being shot in rural communities, he wants to blame the folks living in the big city.
They can’t hide it. Ever.
The whole of the story is that we have a subset of the population in rural communities that think it is fine to pop a cop these days. But the police won’t blame the folks in the Oaf Keepers with them. Or the Klan. Or their white supremacist church. Nah, go blame the Other. As usual.
Fetterman ‘can’t believe’ Marshall resolution on school lunch ‘is even real’
Imagine saying – out loud – that you want to be able to starve a child because you don’t like that they have the ability to define their own selves. Now imagine that person being a United States Senator. Shameful.
The bittersweet reality behind chocolate
Even our simple pleasures mean a lot of work for somebody. And often, that work goes unrewarded.
Eating bread when scared? There’s science behind the Mexican ‘bolillo’ tradition.
Hey, if it works, don’t question it too hard.
What Is Nixtamalization? The History Behind the Traditional Technique
One of my favorite creations is anything having to do with tortillas.