Here's a pic I snapped last week in Roanoke. Can you tell me where?
Here's a picture I took last week. Can you tell me where? (Hint, it's in Roanoke). Name the street and/or building it's in front of. And, if you can identify the gun, tell us the manufacturer and model!
Jewell Parker Rhodes
"Down South everybody cherishes dreams. In dreams this world and the next mix like sugar and grits."
-- Ernestine Thornton to her granddaughter, Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Pittsburgh-raised Jewell Parker Rhodes (born 1954) is a professor of English at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing. She's the author of five novels, including Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Voodoo Season, Douglass' Women and Yellow Moon. She's also author of a memoir, Porch Stories: A Grandmother's Guide to Happiness, in which she shares stories often told by the loving grandmother who raised her, Ernestine Thornton. The Georgia-born Thornton often began her tales with the words, "Down South..." You can find an excerpt of that memoir here; it's very good stuff (scroll about halfway down). Rhodes earned her bachelor's, master's and doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and later was assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I was fortunate to be one of her students. No other teacher I had at Maryland brought life and excitement in learning to the classroom like Rhodes did. I hope the students at Arizona State University realize how fortunate they are.
President Barack Obama
Now that the Navy has freed Capt. Richard Phillips, killed three pirates, injured one and captured one, under orders from the president, it's worth asking how the Obama haters will spin to try and make the president look bad.
This is what they were saying before the rescue.
How do you think those nutty arguments will go now?
1) Obama should have acted more quickly. His dawdling encouraged the pirates to seize another ship in the Gulf of Aden. Instead, he's flying in pizza chefs from Missouri while he's been watching college basketball on TV.
2) Obama should have saturation bombed Somalia's east coast months ago. If he had done that, there wouldn't have been any pirates to seize the ship. You know, it cost a lot to send all those Navy ships in there -- a monumental waste of taxpayer dollars!
3) The pirates were emboldened because Obama himself is a pirate, in a political sense. He hijacked the American electoral system to take control of the country, and now he's holding all of us hostage while he spends like a drunken sailor.
4) Obama had NOTHING to do with this. It was all the work of our heroic military, which as everyone knows, he's trying to dismantle.
5) Other -- please add YOUR nutty arguments in the comments section.
Can you tell me where this is? And who are the women?
Spotted Monday afternoon -- this sign.
In the comments section, tell me where it is, and who the women are. I'll post the replies and give you the location Tuesday.
But with one exception I have no idea who they are. We need you readers for that!
