Comments on: indivisible

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:08:20 +0000

This makes me want to cry.

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:53:34 +0000

I sure know what you mean, Rick, and you give the perfect examples of it. There should be a word for that sudden feeling of being an alien among one’s own countrymen. I hate that expectation of agreement brought upon one by bigots who misread the ones they hate and the ones they “trust” as well. I think the best thing I ever did in terms of education was to drive a motorcycle across the South and Southwest during the peak years of the Vietnam War. I was 15, with long hair, and in all the cafes along the way I heard Mearle Haggard’s “We Don’t Smoke Marijuana, in Muskogee.” I saw what people will do when they decide you are the “other,” or even the enemy. The best thing is that it made me realize I didn’t want to be part of their world even if they would have me.

By: Rick Neece

Rick Neece — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:44:35 +0000

Over the course of years, reading bathroom walls, I’ve read two things that stand out. First at ASU where I got my Bachelors, “Kill a Queer for Christ, ” in a stall, across the hall from the door to my Economics class. (Which eventually became part of the last paragraph of a paper I wrote on Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry.) And later, “Sickle cell anemia is our only hope,” seen in a “way-station” somewhere in Southern Illinois, near East St. Louis, when we stopped for gas, as we were going from “here to there.” I couldn’t get out fast enough. “Drive, Danny!” I said. “Just drive. Get us out of here.”

By: Josh Weichhand

Josh Weichhand — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:05:26 +0000

With few exceptions, I generally think of comment sections as the bathroom stalls of the internet. And not in the cool ways.

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:57:59 +0000

exactly.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:55:03 +0000

Oh man, what a bummer.