Dirt & Seeds

Romney, Santorum, and the Mississippi Black Snake

Op Ed — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:08:16 +0000

Editor’s note: Readers…we apologize for allowing an unedited version of this submission to be previously posted. All errors have been addressed and the following is for your reading pleasure.

This presidential election cycle is producing somewhat of an anomaly on the political radar. Certainly sex and politics have been bedfellows in the [...]

Fanaticism and ignorance

Op Ed — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:56:46 +0000

I arrived in San Francisco, via Oakland, in the winter of 1967, a few seasons into the “Summer of Love.” It was a world that shouldn’t and couldn’t exist. We smoked grass, dropped Owsley acid, experimented with psilocybin, peyote and mescaline. We “balled” who we pleased without fear of recrimination from our friends or [...]

Jim Tract is gone

Nathan Bell — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:41:58 +0000

Jim Tract is Gone

Songwriting is a wonderful thing.

Professional songwriting is a miserable thing.

The business of songwriting is a miserable business.

Jim Tract came to Nashville looking to change that

Jim didn’t just talk a good game.

Jim took a million dollars and started [...]

I’ll think a church is a person when one gets pregnant.

J. Danton Smith — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:42:41 +0000

I’m a bit saddened and a bit outraged at how so many people, including our courts, mangle the Constitution in order to get it to support their position. The current debate over contraception, health insurance, and the Catholic Church is just another example of this. I don’t know who first said they’d view corporations [...]

Parenting and dumb luck

Sam Thompson — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:49:09 +0000

Stick a fork in him. He’s done.

I was pretty certain it didn’t matter how I looked, but my son asked me to dress “as though somebody important was coming to work.” He bought a new suit (got a great deal) and with his new glasses looked wonderful. My son is a good student [...]