Odd or not, Cracked has exhaustively sourced articles. Often quite funny, but sometimes heartbreaking, like this one sounds to be.

Ok, your dog is adorable, and your house is beautiful! I grew up in a house like that in DC, though we did not have the portico. So pretty!

One of the most memorable periods of my 1970s childhood was when the workers at a local factory went on strike for a year. Kids were fighting on the playground (as in actually knocking each other out and breaking noses), some of my friends had to go to the union hall for free food, and the neighbor got a brick thrown…

I can’t even with Trump. I’m slowly realizing that the notion that Trump will not last through 2018 is nothing but wishful thinking. And so, I choose not to think about Trump.

I’ve worked for several financial companies with offices in Chicago, and every time a piece of clip art with that damn Trump building along the river shows up on a mockup, there’s a surprising amount of grumbling from the higher-ups and we’re asked to find a different picture.

Oooooh! Good to know! Thanks!

Eyup. Penn and Teller came after this, saying that most people idolized the era in which they were children, because they didn’t have to worry about all the terrible ass adult shit going on in the world. For me, that would be the ‘80s, but I’m not a fucking moron and realize that Reagan was beginning to fuck up our…

From what I understand that term originated at gin and tacos.

If I hear one more hunyuck from my hometown pining about “simpler times” ... I will probably not be invited to the next Big (2nd or 3rd) Wedding.

This is an excellent post and someone should pull you permanently out of the grays.

pretty sure he signed a helluva lot of shit and it was all just blank papers, old memos, shopping lists, anything to keep him quiet and let him think he was actually doing something. His staff treats him pretty much like I used to with my youngest child — “who’s a busy boy ... you’re a busy boy ...”

I would add that there is absolutely no attempt to grapple with the actual, functional policies that are messing these people’s lives up. You would think that given how celebrated articles like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article on redlining or reparations was, you might see attempts to imitate it rather than simply dutifully…

I saw the “RED HANDED” tweet this morning. Every time he does something stupid it as rxasperating (to say the very least), but sometimes it REALLY just hits you in the face that our President is making extremely undiplomatic statements about foreign policy and matters on social media. 

in the spirit of covnersation and since Mrs OldMan hails from this part of the world and we were there last month i will play devil’s advocate....

+1 I would subscribe :)

As both a member of the effete, liberal coastal media and a member of a family with deep (and current) roots in confluence of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina, I have watched this narrative with some interest. There is a lot of truth to this new stereotype that is emerging - these were in fact thriving…

When the sun throws just the right amount of shade

I just want to tell everyone that someone, not me, coined a phrase that has appeared in several stories at Gawker Media Group, and it enchants me. It encapsulates so much about these bogus and ahistorical and contrafactual and economically illiterate stores coming out of the media. The term is “Cletus Safari.”

Stassa, this is a superb article and the following:

I believe that “Trump Country” is populated entirely by people who are highly resistant to change because they have a major stake in maintaining the status quo. The interesting part is that the reasons for their resistance are so many and so varied that it makes these various attempts to define “Trump Country”…