what's scarier is people who barely think about this stuff at all, and only associate the left and antifa with terrorists. same type of people who are fine with knowing a good chunk of the people executed in america are completely innocent. they'll be ok with a little cleansing of the left before it's over.

my brother in law is named after stonewall jackson's horse.

the line i always heard growing up was "we could've beaten the yankees using cornstalks, but the bastards wouldn't fight that way!"

i think violence is becoming inevitable around these things. that's why they're coming down in the middle of the night. hopefully, every city and town down there will see the sense in just taking them down. those riots are expensive over some shit nobody down there really bothers to understand.

thing about the south is that the history classes never really fought too hard against the idea that lee and jackson (and even forrest - i'm from north mississippi, and he was sort of a regional hero) were great men. the south is best described as one giant case of cognitive dissonance.

outkast on stone mountain or gtfo.

i was in kansas during the last election. if i was looking for proof of voter suppression, that's the first place i'd look. see: kobach, kris.

i spent nearly 40 years around evangelicals. they have more integrity in their pickup basketball games than they do in their religion. very flexible dogma. basically, god loves you, and if you give yourself to him, that's all you need. after that, it's everybody for themselves. everybody knows you don't buy a used car…

just a little. i grew up down there reading books and not going to church. i've been forced to think about this stuff all my life. it's never too far from the surface, as much as i'd like to drop the baggage. the south is very volatile and very dangerous. i have as much heritage there as anybody in the world who isn't…

born 1977, tupelo, ms. 20 years in mississippi, 4 years in alabama, 15 in georgia. i haven't been super close with my family for 20 years or so, but i'm not super out of the loop either. i'm not in the south anymore, but i can say definitely that this whole heritage/hate/state flag/confederate statues argument has…

no, they see a fellow traveler in that regard. trump's been a racist a loooong time. he was sort of famous for it before he got famous for cheating on his wife.

oh, it's bad. my father died of it a year ago. the only thing i learned from it is that two fentanyl patches and enough oral morphine to kill a bull barely made a dent in the pain. those spots on bannon's face look bad. he's in for a painful death.

scaramucci might've done the same thing. the guy was on tv all the time. he knew the deal with reporters, too.

god, fuck that. if that's the case, get her the fuck away from the white house. we're still running a country here.

she's 28, not 18. i know adulthood doesn't start at the av club until you're 35 or divorced or something, but in real life, she's on the hook. if only real life rules applied to rich white folks.

well, it's tedious, but what country do you live in? at what point since elvis have we not been absolutely glued to whatever whim the younger demographic has? what are you looking for here?

and also, he doesn't diss snyder. it's miller he's calling fascist.

if you look to the right of your screen, you'll notice that this column is one in a series. this series goes year-by-year, taking the top "action" movie of that year and looking at it and it's place in pop culture. he's on the year 2007, and as you point out, gangs of new york didn't come out that year. but why miss a…

is it better than working on a loading dock? asking for a friend.

do you work there? just curious.