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Episode 98A: "Mud" & Top 5 Deep Fried Films

The Last Podcast Show wrote 18 hours ago: This week on the movie themed half of the Podcast Stop Worrying and Love This Podcast, Simon is join … more →

Tags: Film: Stop Worrying and Love This Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Jacob Lofland, Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon, Mud, Ray McKinnon, Reese Witherspoon

Just the plain truth

jaanderson2112 wrote 1 day ago: For people in the South, being gay is a choice but obesity is genetic. … more →

Tags: Gay, Fat, obesity, genes

Queue-jumping2 comments

Vicky wrote 2 days ago: The other day I had to be in an unfamiliar place in Jerusalem for nine o’clock. To allow for m … more →

Tags: occupational hazards, On the Wrong Side of the Law, Personal Life, alice walker, bethlehem, checkpoints, Jerusalem, military occupation, Palestine

South Florida, Racism, and Obama

thelightrestored wrote 2 days ago: I do not know the “Deep South”– Georgia, Alabama, etcetera– South Florida, i … more →

Tags: obama, President, Politics, Society, america, racism, South Florida, SE Pennsylvania, Agenda

What a Corpse Feels Like

archfriar wrote 5 days ago: Cadillac Fleetwood hearse 1990s. Photographed in Flint, Michigan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Have you … more →

Tags: Childhood Memories, Autobiographical, Death In Family, Menopause, adolescence, Vicious Neighbors

A slap in Abhisit's face as Thais in the Deep South welcomes talks with, the often terrorizing, militant

thaiintelligentnews wrote 6 days ago: After Yingluck took Thailand on “Talks” with the militant in the Deep South, that often … more →

Tags: Democrat Party, national security, Pheu Thai Party, Thaksin, Yingluck, abhisit, Bangkok, Muslim, Pattaya

Book Review: Joyce Hansen's I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl6 comments

KD Did It wrote 6 days ago: by Kathy Davie I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hanse … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Children's, , author Joyce Hansen, Book Review, chapter book, end of civil war, Freedom, Journal

America's Minorities Becoming A Majority1 comment

cbs4kephart wrote 6 days ago: MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Much was made of the shifting demographics during the 2012 presidential electi … more →

Tags: Local, News, Politics, African-Americans, Age Group, asian, Baby Boomers, Birth Rates, caucasian

Global Peace Index - Where We Stand

Areva wrote 1 week ago: The 2013 Global Peace Index report analyses the state of peace around the world, identifying trends … more →

Tags: News, Thailand, Government, Asia, Päd, Economy, yellow shirts, Human Rights, ASEAN

Thailand destroys 337,725 landmines

Areva wrote 1 week ago: Thailand states that it has never produced or exported antipersonnel mines. The country formerly imp … more →

Tags: Asia, Sustainable Development, Thailand, Human Right, Bangkok, Government, Army, development, Breaking News

Deep South: Thailand Promoting Relations with OIC Member Countries

Areva wrote 1 week ago: Deep South: Thailand Promoting Relations with OIC Member Countries The Sheikhul Islam Office and the … more →

Tags: News, Thailand, Government, Islam, Muslim, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Religion, OIc, Faith

Other Southern Reasons not to Expand

freedmenspatrol wrote 1 week ago: John C. Calhoun Motives aside political calculus played a role in inspiring Southerners to stand aga … more →

Tags: road to war, The South, upper South, Filibusters, Calhoun, cuba, Manifest Destiny, Nicaragua, William Walker

Racial Resentment, the GOP and the South2 comments

calvinterbeek wrote 1 week ago: Having spent nearly a decade in the Deep South (not all consecutively), the level of closet racism t … more →

Tags: Politics, George Bush, George W. Bush, Nixon, racial resentment, racism, reagan, Republican, strom thurmond

Opposing Expansion in the South

freedmenspatrol wrote 1 week ago: Jefferson Davis With foreknowledge of the war to come, our attention naturally focuses on figures an … more →

Tags: road to war, The South, Slavery, Border States, upper South, Filibusters, texas annexation, POLK, Proslavery

Remembering Will Campbell11 comments

gordoncstewart wrote 2 weeks ago: Will CampbellWill Campbell (1924-2013) is unforgettable. Beyond unusual, he was idiosyncratic. In de … more →

Tags: america, Economics, Faith, Life, memoir, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, spirituality

Deep South

amodeotoby wrote 2 weeks ago: 2 o’clock sundown. Dim hot moving air latticed full of dry flecks of paint. Wisteria blooming vivid … more →

Tags: nature, Poetry, america, American Culture, Civil War, feeling, Hiking, imagery, Imagism

Underrated Town of the Week: Mobile, AL

thefiftystates wrote 2 weeks ago: Like many states in the Deep South, Alabama has a bad reputation with some people, and rightfully so … more →

Tags: Underrated Town of the Week, united states, Travel, Town of the Week, Budget, Destinations, small town, Gulf Coast, Mobile

Roundtable Review: Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams (Introduction)1 comment

Benjamin Park wrote 2 weeks ago: This week at The Junto, we are pleased to offer a roundtable review on Walter Johnson’s recent … more →

Tags: Book Review, River of Dark Dreams, Roundtables, antebellum, roundtable, Slavery, Walter Johnson

Why Some of Us Stay Closeted139 comments

godlessindixie wrote 2 weeks ago: Recently someone suggested to a group of mostly closeted atheists in the Deep South that maybe they … more →

Tags: Atheism, atheism, Christian, coming out, Family, Mississippi, Relationships, Religion and Spirituality, united states


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