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Ron Rash Reading from Serena

Ron Rash reading from Serena.

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Redneck White Trash Cheater Cheater

This is the most chipper song I’ve ever heard about adultery.

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It’s also interesting to note who exactly gets the moniker ‘white trash ho.’ It’s not enough, in this song, to call your man’s girlfriend a ho. You have to add ‘white-trash’ as an adjective, making the woman even lower than low, like effluents or road [...]

W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking

I’ll be damned. Poor people don’t eat well, and get fat as a result? Who woulda thunk it?

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – As a portly woman plodded ahead of him on the sidewalk, the obese mayor of America’s fattest and unhealthiest city explained why health is not a big local issue.

“It doesn’t come up,” said [...]

More Carolyn Chute

Link courtesy of Endless Emendation:

PARSONSFIELD, Me. — The novelist Carolyn Chute doesn’t have a working phone, a fax or a computer. She writes on a washtub-size electric typewriter that was probably state of the art in the ’70s. Ms. Chute (pronounced CHOOT) and her husband, Michael, live in a small compound at the end of [...]