(Sigh.....) I recall when I wuz a boy growing up in Beattyville, one 'a the best things I ever heard anyone say wuz, "The hurrierder I go, the behinder I get!"
I feel a lot like that t'day....except now it's the older I get, the more I wonder what in the hell I wuz hurrying for 'cuz I don't seem to have got very damn far....
I wuz born 'n grew up 'bout half a mile south of the Mason/Dixon line (so I wuz told) so I guess I'm southern by birth...'course, brother John wuz born on the other side of the river so he ain't...same thing with Jim 'n Bill but the fact of the matter is 'n always has been, that it don't make a pennyworth of difference 'n given the value of a penny t'day, you just might as well throw them away rather than give 'em space in your pocket...
What we did get back there howsomever, wuz hist'ry 'n since Kentucky wuz a border state, we got both sides of the story...which may or may not account for my position astraddle the damn fence...See, I happen to think that since every coin has two sides, so does every damn story that you hear...Adam had his story 'n Eve had hers...'n the snake, well he might'a been the lawyer who wuz advising both sides back there in Eden...'n we all know how that turned out....we all got kicked out in a sort of Solomon 'n dividing the baby kind of decesion that ended up with all of us on the outside looking in at Paradise....
Back in 1860, we, as a country, got all confused over State's Rights which the South wuz pretty much in favor of 'n the Federal gov't wudn't...so everyone set to arguing the issue 'n callin' each other names...much like t'day, y'see..'n the same names like Racist...well, homophobia wudn't such a big deal back then 'n 'course, nobody ever raised the issue of a war on women 'n such...but we called each other liars 'n backstabbers 'n Johnny Rebs 'n Billy Yanks 'n such 'n we drew a dividing line between us 'n commenced killing each other...about three quarters of a million, I'm told, 'n that ain't really counting the collateral damage...
And after, c'uz we didn't really have it all out of our system then, we took to killing the aboriginal citizens of our fair land 'n pretty much killed most of 'em off before we turned our eyes on Mexico 'n Cuba 'n then World War I came along 'n we went over to France to kill Germans...
We got a long hist'ry of finding ourselves a war ever' so often so's we can go adventuring in other countries 'n killing those people 'stead of our own....
I do tend to digress a bit but I'm tired of the Liberal/Conservative thing...I'm tired of news analysts 'n talking heads 'n I'm really, really tired of politicians...What we need is a new national sports arena like the one that's being planned for downtown Sacramento 'n I'd vote for one if they'ud put all the politicians in there 'n let 'em fight it out...on national television, of course, 'n just so there wudn't be any partisan bullshit on the part of the networks, every channel should have access.....
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