Comment by James Cox on August 19, 2012 at 10:47am

I think I could sign onto this.

Comment by archaeopteryx on August 19, 2012 at 1:30pm

That works for me!

I've been to Kentucky Alicia, it's a beautiful state - glad you could stop by and hope you can stay a spell. (I'm normally not so folksy, but I used to teach Kentucky kids who came north to Indiana, and I recall how y'all talk.)

Comment by a spears on August 19, 2012 at 6:14pm

That's another way I am an odd duck here. I don't do the y'all thing, unless I'm making a joke or something. Lived in Louisville for close to 15 years, as I went to UofL and started teaching school up there. Moved to my hometown and got wrenched out of the school system by the God squad. Three years later I'm still unemployed and dying to get out of this place. Yes, it is lovely, but so are cemeteries. I don't mean to sound too bitter, I'm just lost here. I don't identify with the god zombies or the right wingers or the down home crowds that flock here. I'm educated and opinionated and that keeps me unemployed in this half-horse hell hole where it's not only who you know, and who you blow but what your last name is and which side of the tracks you grew up on that determine your job prospects. So, yeah. Pretty much hating life in this place. Years of no prospects tend to make one snappy, I suppose.

Comment by a spears on August 19, 2012 at 6:40pm

I don't mean for any of that to sound like an attack. You were being friendly and trying to relate, which I do appreciate. Thanks for that! I want to leave my comment up, though. I want the truth known about Somerset, KY. It's the worst place to live for a free-thinker, or a thinker at all, really.

Comment by archaeopteryx on August 19, 2012 at 6:55pm

No apology needed - I was kidding about the "y'all" remark (I thought about trying, "you'uns") - so why don't you get the hell out? There's a whole world out there --

Comment by archaeopteryx on August 19, 2012 at 6:56pm

And what did you do to piss off the God Squad? (Not that it takes that much --)

Comment by Andrew on August 19, 2012 at 8:58pm

looks too much like a demotivational poster

Comment by VioLENTpreechr on August 20, 2012 at 12:46am

I like this, all very reasonable things one can do to function, help, and generally get along with others.  Pretty much the opposite of what the religious zealots do!!

Comment by Tall Paul on September 9, 2012 at 1:03pm

Beautiful! Thanks

Comment by Umbra on October 23, 2012 at 7:37pm

Sign me up for a one way ticket to that planet please.

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