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by robbievance
You know how a sound or smell can bring up a memory? Today, I smelled something that took me back to Saturday dinners (known as lunch outside the South) at Maw and Pop’s house. When I’d come in the carport door, the sound of the pressure cooker steam-rattling away on the stove was an immediate siren-song pulling me around the corner into the kitchen. … Read More Maw’s Long-handle Serving Spoon
by robbievance
Yesterday as I was watching Mississippi State play Arizona in football, Tate Reeves ads slamming Brandon Presley about teenage gender identity medicine came on during nearly every commercial break. It got old after the 15th one. I live in Mississippi where we are solidly in the bottom tier in almost every meaningful socioeconomic metric amongst the rest of the states and even below a … Read More Smoke and mirrors
by robbievance
This year, Mississippi is voting on a constitutional initiative to legalize medical marijuana. It seems like there’s been a different initiative on every ballot for the last 10 years, and I have a few issues with it. Until 2009, there were 27 proposed initiatives, and since then there have been 45 more. Mississippians are slinging them around like hash at the Waffle House on … Read More What’s the problem?
The View From My Seat 