Sometimes I wonder if they’re trolls too.
But most of the time I just think they’re genuinely as ignorant, racist, and radical Christianist as they sound. And that’s when I want to pack my shit and get out of the South.
Maybe that will be the first of a regular series.
Anyone interested in reading more?
Last night, a father of three was shot and killed in my hometown. His death was the first murder in Athens this year. The article described how he was shot in the back after returning home from work.
You’d think the comments would have focused on sending condolences to the family of the victim (and maybe they would have if the victim looked a bit different), but you’d be wrong. The hillbillies decided to instead take advantage of a perfect opportunity for some wise cracks:
Snap! Our local paper is totally responsible for this senseless tragedy because of a recent article about how there haven’t been any murders in our town this year. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
JINX!
OH, YOU SILLY NINNIES! THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO AROUND BRAGGIN’ ABOUT NOT HAVING ANY MURDERS IN YOUR TOWN! HA HA HA HA HA!
Click through to read more fun comments, including a great debate about superstition, cracks about how the victim lived in a trailer park, and a few rare messages of condolences.
Soleil rocking out with Like Totally at KidsFest (Taken with Instagram at Athfest)
Laura and me at AthFest yesterday (Taken with Instagram at Athfest Main Stage)
The Flagpole Music Awards were great last night. As always, I found several bands that I want to see this weekend.
Here’s my plan for this evening:
* Get the kids in bed and get out the door!
9p - Reptar (Pulaski Street Stage)
10p - Quiet Hounds (40 Watt)
11p - Twin Tigers (40 Watt)
12a - Lera Lynn (40 Watt)
1a - Modern Skirts (40 Watt)
lera lynn is one of athens’s finest.
she is playing friday @ 40 Watt on friday (6.2) at 11:00.
The ugly firing of Banner-Herald Managing Editor Allison Floyd last week by Publisher Scott Morrissey and Vice President for Audience Andrea Griffith sent shock waves through our community. “Ugly,” because they fired her for doing her job, checking a fact in a press release from the school system. They fired her after school superintendent Philip Lanoue picked up the telephone and called publisher Morrisaey.
There are two sides to everything, and this is a one-sided account of what happened to Floyd. The circumstantial evidence makes it look like a working journalist was fired because she stepped on the toe of her publisher’s golfing buddy. The whole thing looks even worse because the question Allison Floyd asked pertained to the Classic City High School, where the principal, Kelly Girtz, is the domestic partner of Vice President Griffith. Publisher Morrissey and Vice President for Audience Griffith surely had reasons sufficient to them for getting rid of Editor Floyd, but to do it after a phone call from the superintendent makes everybody look bad.
