#J.d. hogg

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The Dukes of Hazzard - 3.06 - The Late J.D. Hogg

[country-lee215]

Ain’t Goin Nowhere

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“How’s our favorite bartender doin’ today?” Luke grinned, leaning against the bartop at the Boar’s Nest.

Y/N gave a small shrug and continued to stack the empty glasses. “I’m alright.”

Smiling, Bo stretched to press a kiss to her cheek. When he pulled away, however, his smile was gone. “Are you feelin’ alright, baby? You’re awfully warm.”

“I’m okay,” she protested as Luke tried to press the back of his hand against her forehead.

“Bo’s right, you’re pretty hot, darlin’,” Luke said, concern evident on his face. “I don’t think you should be workin’ today.”

Y/N crossed her arms over her chest. “Boys, I’m fine.”

There was a loud crash from behind them, the sound of one of the drunker customers tripping over a chair and falling, toppling a table as he did so and smashing a few beers on the ground.

One of Y/N’s hands flew to her temple, eyes squeezing shut as she winced. Bo’s shoulders slumped in concern, the sad expression he wore a rarity to see on his face.

“Take her out to the car,” Luke said, turning to Bo. “I’ll tell Boss she’s sick.”

“Bo,” Y/N started.

Bo didn’t listen. He walked behind the bar and scooped her up, situating her in his arms before starting to take her back out front. Luke tossed her a soft smile as she passed. Y/N didn’t smile back, keeping up a steady stream of complaints as Bo carried her out, but Luke noticed how she looped her arms around his neck and relaxed against his chest.

Luke jogged over to the back room, knocking lightly before opening the door. “Hey, Boss?”

“What?” Boss snapped, not looking away from his calculator. He continued to punch numbers into the machine, watching as they typed out across the paper.

“Y/N’s not feelin’ too great,” Luke said, nodding back to the bar. “Bo and I are gonna take her home, we just thought we should let you know.”

Boss Hogg turned to look at him, concern quite obvious on his face. “Y/N’s sick?”

Luke nodded. “Yessir, she’s got a fever. A headache too from the looks of it. Bo’s carryin’ her out to the General Lee right now.”

J.D. bit his lip, glancing back at his calculator for a moment. “Alright. You take her home and make sure she gets some rest. She’s one of my best bartenders.”

“Will do,” Luke said, giving the man a small smile. “Thanks, Boss.”

He gave a sharp nod and went back to punching numbers in. “Now get out of here.”

Luke chuckled and pulled the door closed behind him as he left.

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“Lost Sheep to Shepherd, Lost Sheep to Shepherd, come in Shepherd,” Luke said into the CB radio, glancing over at Bo and Y/N in the passenger seat as he took the backroads to the Duke farm.

“This is Shepherd.”

“Shepherd, we picked up Lamb from the Boar’s Nest,” Luke explained. “She’s got a high fever and a headache. Honestly, she’s not looking too good.”

“I’m fine,” Y/N grumbled, picking her head up from where it was laying against Bo’s chest.

Bo used his chin to gently nudge her head back down. “We know baby, we know.”

“You better bring her over then, I’ll start a pot of soup. We’ll get some liquids in her and she’ll be good as new.”

“Read ya loud and clear Shepherd,” Luke said. “We’ll be home in about five minutes.”

“10-4, Luke. See y’all when ya get here.”

As Luke stretched to hang the radio back up, Y/N sat bolt upright in Bo’s lap.

“Pull over.”

“Are you-,”

“Luke, pull over.”

Luke did so, and before he could even throw the General Lee in park, Y/N was scrambling out the window. Bo tried his best to help her out without getting kicked. Y/N managed to get her feet under her and took a few steps into the grass before falling to her knees and retching.

Luke was sliding out of the window a second later, jogging to Y/N and kneeling at her side. He talked softly as she continued to puke in the grass, hand rubbing over her back as her chest heaved.

Bo let out a groan, running a hand over his face before reaching for the CB radio. “Shepherd? If you’ve still got your ears on, me and Luke are gonna be a little late. Y/N’s throwing up on the side of the road.”

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“Easy does it,” Luke said, gently lowering Y/N into his bed. “Easy does it.”

Bo stood in the doorway, watching over the two with a nervous expression. “You want me to get the soup from Daisy?”

“No,” Luke said. He brushed some of Y/N’s hair out of her face. “I’ve got it. Help her with the blankets and stuff alright? Get her comfortable.”

“Yeah, alright.” Bo crossed the room and started to pull the blankets up and over Y/N as Luke slipped out into the hallway.

She let out a tired groan and lightly kicked out, hindering his progress.

“It’s alright,” Bo murmured. “Calm down, honey. Just tryin’ to help.”

“Bo,” she whined, reaching out for him.

The blond gave her a warm smile and took her hand in his, scattering kisses across her knuckles. “You’ve got a fever, Luke and I are tryin’ to get it to break, so we can get you back to normal.”

“Soup’s on,” Luke said, walking into the room with a tray balanced in his hands. There was a steaming bowl of soup in the middle with a small plate of crackers on the side. Uncle Jesse followed behind him, Daisy hovering in the doorway.

“How’re ya feelin’ Y/N?” Jesse asked as Bo helped Y/N sit up. Luke sat down on the edge of the bed, situating the tray on his thigh.

“Terrific,” Y/N muttered, eyes closing as stars erupted in her head at the sudden movement.

“Thought so,” the old man said with a smile. “I’ll get you a cold cloth, we’ll get that fever down.”

“Did you want any clothes to change into?” Daisy offered. “Work clothes aren’t too comfortable, I know. I can give you some of mine if you’d like, but I’m sure the boys are more than willin’ to give you theirs.”

Y/N nodded and sent her a weak smile, leaning more heavily into Bo’s side as he sat down on her other side. “Thanks, Daisy. I’m okay.”

“I’ll let you get some rest then,” she said, giving them one last smile before walking back down the hallway.

“Soup or crackers?” Luke asked.

“I don’t want anything,” Y/N complained. “I’m not hungry.”

“We know,” Bo said, smoothing his hand over Y/N’s hair. “But ya gotta eat something.”

Luke lifted the bowl of soup and his spoon, a small smile on his lips. “Just a few spoonfuls?”

Y/N let out a slow sigh but nodded.

“Atta girl,” Luke praised.

The boys managed to get her to eat a few spoonfuls of the warm soup, murmuring praise and encouragement as she swallowed each mouthful. Bo pressed periodic kisses to her temple, arm looped gently around her waist. As Luke offered her another spoonful, Y/N shook her head, the queasy look returning to her face.

“Easy, easy,” Luke said, quickly pushing the tray off his lap and onto the bed before stretching to grab the trash can from his bedside. He placed it in front of Y/N a second before she puked again.

“Let it out,” Bo said softly. He pulled her hair back and out of the way, trying his best to keep her as clean as possible. “Just let it out, baby, you’re alright.”

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Bo and Luke stood outside the closed bedroom, talking quietly as Y/N changed clothes inside. They’d cleaned up the vomit and pushed the half-eaten soup and crackers off to the side, promising her that they wouldn’t make her anything else for the time being. They all knew she’d have to try to eat again later, but none of them were in any rush.

Luke offered up one of his soft button-down flannels for her to change into, something she took gratefully. To give her some privacy, they stepped outside.

“I don’t like seeing her like this,” Bo muttered, letting out a frustrated sigh as he ran his hand through his hair.

“Neither do I,” Luke said. “But we’re doing all we can to help her.”

“I know.”

The door opened and both of them turned, attention falling back to Y/N instantly. She had donned Luke’s shirt, the hem falling past her work shorts.

“Hey,” Luke murmured, pulling her into a tight hug. “How’re ya feelin’?”

“Tired,” she said, voice muffled as she pushed her face further into Luke’s chest.

Bo pressed his hand to her back, stepping forward so she was gently sandwiched between the two boys. “Ya wanna take a nap? Get some rest?”

She nodded.

Luke shifted, moving so he could press his cheek to her forehead. She was still warm, warmer than she should’ve been. Hopefully, the nap would finally get her fever to break, and then they’d be able to get some food in her.

“Let’s get ya to bed, darlin,” he murmured, pulling back. Bo leaned over to drop a kiss to her forehead and Luke walked back into the bedroom, Y/N shuffling along behind him with Bo at her side.

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Bo let out a soft sigh, fingers running up and down Y/N’s arm draped across his chest. He couldn’t move much, that was the price to pay for cramming three people into Luke’s bed, but there wasn’t anywhere Bo would rather be.

He was lying on his back, Y/N resting half on top of him with her face buried in his shoulder. Luke had tucked himself behind her, a protective arm across her waist. They were both asleep, breathing evenly as Luke’s fingers subconsciously drew patterns into her hip.

“You boys are gonna get sick,” Uncle Jesse said from the doorway.

Bo lifted his head to look at his uncle, trying not to upset Y/N. It hadn’t taken her long to fall asleep once they were all situated in the bed, but she kept waking up every so often, murmuring incomprehensibly. Bo blamed it on fever-induced dreams.

“We know.”

Jesse smiled. “Guess it’s a little too late to try and keep you two away from her, hmm?”

Chuckling, Bo let his head fall back against the pillows. Y/N let out a small noise and cuddled closer to his side, stretching to push her face into the crook of his neck. Luke slid closer, pressing up along her back.

“Go to sleep, Bo,” the old man said. “Nothing’ll happen to her, she’s got the two of you right there with her. Get some rest.”

Bo smiled to himself. Uncle Jesse always seemed to know what he was thinking. “Yessir,” he said.

Uncle Jesse gave the trio one last fond look before he turned the lights off and pulled the door closed, heading back down the hallway. Bo could faintly hear him talking to Daisy about the three of them.

“Bo,” Y/N whispered.

“Right here,” he replied in a soft tone, fingers pausing on her arm and holding tight to her wrist. He prepared himself to find the trash can again if she needed it or to get out of the bed and walk to the kitchen to get her something else to eat or drink.

“Stay.”

He smiled, pressing a kiss to her forehead before tugging her closer. “I ain’t goin’ nowhere, baby.”

[pastelrainbowflower]

The Ghost of General Lee

“Roscooooooooooooooooooooooo...Roscooooooooooooooooooooooo...You framed us, Rosco...and now we’re back for revenge...We’re takin’ you to the Pearly Gates, Rosco...Of course it’s doubtful they’ll let you in...”

Everyone in Hazzard County thought Bo and Luke Duke were dead.  After all, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane saw them crash their beloved General Lee into the lake and drown.  And Boss J.D. Hogg took advantage of the situation by framing them for taking his solid gold watch and chain to their graves.  Little did anyone know that the Duke boys were still alive and kicking...and NAKED!  While they were skinny dipping, the real crooks made off with their clothes and car.  The boys had to go “running through the backwoods bare” (yes, just like in the song) back to the Duke farm where a wake was being held in their memory.  The sight of the boys still alive startled everyone at first, especially Daisy and Uncle Jesse.  After they all calmed down, the boys explained what happened...and Uncle Jesse explained the frame-up job committed by Hogg.  This gave them an idea on how to scare Hogg into confession and clear the Dukes’ name: some overhauling of the General’s engine by their friend Cooter, some phosphorescent paint, a few special effects, et voila!  Instant ghost...but would it work?

The basic lineart of a 1969 Dodge Charger was found at DeviantArt.  I added a pushbar, colored the car with fluorescent markers and phosphorescent paint, and photographed the artwork using a blacklight.

Hope you like this spooky piece of fan art, and Happy Halloween!

General Lee/The Dukes of Hazzard © Warner Bros.

[abhayhatia]

Crimson Sox high Tigers 4-1, snap 5-game skid

Crimson Sox high Tigers 4-1, snap 5-game skid

Crimson Sox J.D. Martinez, Enrique Hernandez, and Jarren Duran homered for the Crimson Sox. Enrique Hernandez is pushed in a cart within the dugout after hitting a two-run house run within the fifth inning. (AP Picture/Paul Sancya) The Related Press By DAVE HOGG, Related Press August 4, 2021 DETROIT (AP) — Eduardo Rodriguez struck out 10 in 5 shutout innings and the Boston Crimson Sox snapped…

[dankusner]

Who is Tim Walz? A former social studies teacher and high school football coach, Walz was elected to Congress in 2007 and has been the governor of Minnesota since 2019.

Also the chair of the Democratic Governors Association and a military veteran, Walz gained attention last month by labeling the Republican Donald Trump-JD Vance ticket "just weird."

Democrats, including Pritzker, have been using the attack line ever since.

Who is Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ choice for vice president?

MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, wagering that a former red-district congressman with a progressive streak can help her win over working-class voters in battleground states needed to beat Donald Trump in November.

In picking Walz, 60, Harris is elevating a relatively unknown second-term governor from a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican for president in more than 50 years, passing over swing state contenders such as Arizona U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Harris and Walz will kick off a tour of battleground states Tuesday evening with a rally in Philadelphia.

Initially seen as a second-tier candidate for the job, Walz vaulted to the top of the list of possible prospects after spending weeks defending Harris on the cable news circuit, going viral in the process for his off-the-cuff messaging style.

He’s credited with reframing the party’s attack on Republicans from an existential threat to democracy to these “really weird people” for their positions on abortion and book bans.

A national Democratic audience took to Walz’s blunt, fast-talking style and his “Minnesota nice” way of slamming Republicans, gaining supporters for the vice president job in labor unions, current and former members of Congress, progressive leaders and Gen Z activists like Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor David Hogg.

“The entire country is about to see why their friends from Minnesota can’t stop bragging about Governor Walz,” Minnesota DFL Party Chair Ken Martin said in a statement. “By picking a servant leader born and raised in a small town who has dedicated his career to protecting freedoms and lifting up working families, Vice President Harris has chosen the perfect foil for J.D. Vance and his politics of resentment.”

Walz brings demographic balance to the ticket, and his personal and political résumé provides a contrast to Harris, a former U.S. senator and attorney general from California.

Walz grew up in rural Nebraska, enlisted in the Army National Guard at 17 and eventually moved to Mankato, Minnesota, where he taught geography and coached the high school football team.

He toppled long-time Republican U.S. Rep. Gil Gutknecht in 2006 and represented a largely rural, conservative southern Minnesota district in Congress for a dozen years before running for governor in 2018.

His first term in office was tumultuous, battling dual crises in the COVID-19 pandemic and the riots and widespread damage following George Floyd’s killing by a then-Minneapolis police officer.

After-action assessments found there was a breakdown in communication between government officials, including Walz.

Republicans are already attacking the Harris-Walz ticket for what happened in Minneapolis in 2020.

“He demonstrated that he was completely unwilling to take on the progressive wing of this party. He was frozen for three days and would not seek the assistance of the National Guard,” said Minnesota GOP Party Chair David Hann, who also called Walz “the most partisan governor that we’ve had in my memory.”

Despite the criticism, Walz was handily reelected to a second term alongside narrow Democratic majorities in the Legislature.

Using a $17.5 billion budget surplus, they spent billions of dollars on schools, infrastructure and other programs while passing a long list of progressive priorities such as marijuana legalization, universal school meals, paid family and medical leave, and ambitious new clean energy standards.

Walz’s profile started to rise after that session as he touted Minnesota Democrats’ progressive agenda on the national stage.

He took over as chair of the Democratic Governors Association last year and campaigned on behalf of the Biden administration as a surrogate.

His star rose precipitously after Biden dropped out of the race, showcasing his messaging style during apparent auditions for the vice president job.

He attacked Republicans for talking about the “freedom to be in your bedroom, freedom to be in your exam room, freedom to tell your kids what they can read.”

“That stuff is weird,” Walz said on MSNBC, messaging the Harris campaign and other Democrats have started to echo on the campaign trail.

Walz told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he believes Trump is a threat to women’s rights and democracy, but that messaging also “gives him way too much power.”

“Listen to the guy,” Walz said. “He’s talking about Hannibal Lecter and shocking sharks and whatever crazy things pops into his mind.”

In his appearances on cable news, Walz has also tried to create a contrast between himself and Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, criticizing him as a Yale-educated venture capitalist who’s out of touch with working-class voters.

He’s called out Vance’s vote against IVF protections in the Senate, telling his own story of using fertility treatments with his wife, Gwen, to conceive his daughter, Hope.

Harris faced an accelerated timeline to choose her running mate after Biden’s exit from the race in late July.

She needs to make her vice president pick ahead of the Aug. 7 deadline to get on the ballot in Ohio.

Walz’s ascension to the ticket leaves questions for Minnesota. Under the state Constitution, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan would become governor if Walz resigns, but he’s not on the ballot in Minnesota this fall, meaning he could wait until after the November election to step down.

Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Nation, would become Minnesota’s first woman and first Native American governor.

The president of the state Senate would then become the state’s lieutenant governor.

The state Senate is currently tied 33-33 pending a November special election to replace former state Sen. Kelly Morrison, who is running for Congress. If Democrats retain control, Senate President Bobby Joe Champion would become Minnesota’s first Black lieutenant governor.

IMMIGRATION

Abbott finds fault with Walz’s positions Gov. Greg Abbott is sounding alarms over the immigration and border security policies of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who on Monday officially secured the Democratic presidential nomination after President Joe Biden’s exit from the race, announced Walz as her running mate Tuesday. Soon after, Abbott, a Republican who has endorsed former President Donald Trump for president, warned that a “Harris-Walz ticket would be the most radical and dangerous administration in modern history.”

A statement from Abbott included criticisms of a Harris-Walz ticket that spanned multiple policy areas, including border security and immigration.

“Tim Walz will be a rubberstamp for Kamala Harris’ deadly open border policies, refusing to admit there is a border crisis, opposing border wall funding, and supporting sanctuary cities,” Abbott said.

In a separate post on X, Abbott said Harris “supports free health care to illegal immigrants,” and Walz “signed laws giving state services to them.”

“Both provide magnets for more illegal immigration,” said Abbott.

So what’s Walz’s record on the border and immigration?

Abbott’s post on X did not outline specific “state services” offered to people living in the country illegally and a spokesperson did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

But Walz has signed a law extending a health insurance program for low income Minnesotans, MinnesotaCare, to those with undocumented status, according to MPR News.

Spokespersons for Walz’s office and Harris’ campaign did not immediately return requests for comment.

More on ‘crisis’

To back up his claim that Walz will not admit there’s a “border crisis,” Abbott shared a clip of an interview Walz gave on Meet the Press .

In it, Walz is asked if he thinks what is happening on the border is a crisis.

In the clip, he doesn’t directly call the situation at the border a “crisis.”

“Well, I think it could be fixed,” Walz said. “I think crisis is, you know, we certainly have these — I don’t want people living outside Minnesota right now. I think there’s the humanity piece of this, and then there’s the right that every sovereign nation has a right to control its borders, as we should. More could be done, but they’re doing nothing. Congress is doing nothing. The president is asking for more aid for border patrol. Not getting it.”

Pressed if he thinks the border is secure, Walz said, “I think the border with the folks who do the work down there are doing a great job. Could we do better. Absolutely.”

‘30 foot ladder’

Abbott pointed to a March 2018 post on X, called Twitter at the time, to support his assertion that Walz opposes border wall funding.

Walz, responding to a Washington Post report that Trump was privately pushing the U.S. military to fund a border wall, said, “I thought President Trump’s military parade idea was the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I was wrong. Taking money we could use to give our warriors better pay in order to build his ridiculous wall is way stupider.”

Walz favors securing the border through other means, according to a recent interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

In the interview, Walz quipped that when Trump talks about a border wall, “I always say, let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I’ll invest in the 30 foot ladder factory.”

“That’s not how you stop this,” he said. “You stop this using electronics. You stop it using more border control agents, and you stop it by having a legal system that allows for that tradition of allowing folks to come here — just like my relatives did — to come here, be able to work and establish the American dream. He’s not interested in that. He wants to demonize.”

Sanctuary policies generally refer to those that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In a 2018 interview with a Minneapolis TV station that was linked in Abbott’s Tuesday statement, Walz said he supports Minnesota being a sanctuary state if “the definition of that is that the federal government enforces immigration law, and local law enforcement enforces local law.”

Nuff said.

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Hazzard County Marathon...The Dukes Of Hazzard: The Late J.D. Hogg (1980) on classic DVD 📀! #tv #television #actionadventure #thedukesofhazzard #dukesofhazzard #TheGeneralLee #thelatejdhogg #dukes42 #80s #DVD

[kazashiniwielder]

I didn’t realize that in the entirety of Dukes of Hazzard, Bo only address Boss Hogg as J.D. one time. When he was pretending to be a ghost. I didn’t realize it because Jesse calls him J.D. all the time and even Luke calls him that periodically. But Daisy never does and Bo only does the one time.

I don’t know why this matters to me, but it does.

[readbykena-blog]

13 years - 305 books

I am an avid reader and friends frequently ask me what I am reading. Here I will try and post a brief review of each book I read. To begin with here is a list of books I have read over the last 13 years. Feel free to ask me any questions.

2017: (22)

-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

-Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

-Corporate Communication, Theory & Practice by Joep Cornelissen

-Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen

-Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

-A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

-Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

-Theorizing Crisis Communication by Timothy Sallow and Matthew Seeger

-Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism by Eric Burns

-The Global Public Relations Handbook by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh and Dejan Vercic

-The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

-When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

-The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

- Introducing Communication Research by Donald Treadwell

- We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby

- Ethics in Public Relations by Kathy Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Bronstein

- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

- Origin by Dan Brown

- What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

- Social Media Communication by Jeremy Harris Lipshultz

- A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

2016: (20)

-A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell

-Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

-The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale

-Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

-The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

-The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

-The Speechwriter by Barton Swaim

- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

-The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

-The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

-But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman

-Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

-Brewster by Mark Slouka

-Rosemary The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

-The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

-The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

-Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

-The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

-A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman 

2015: (29)

-All The Truth Is Out by Matt Bai

-Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

-The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

-Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

-Yes Please by Amy Poehler

-A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

-All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

-The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

-To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

-In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

-A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka

-The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

-Persuading Scientists by Hamid Ghanadan

-The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey

-Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

-A Heartbreaking Word of Staggering Genius by David Eggers

-Polio, An American Story by David Oshinsky 

-The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

-Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

-One Summer America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

-Brain on Fire by Susannah Catalan

-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

-The Making of Modern Medicine by Michael Bliss

-People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann

-Internal Medicine by Terrence Holt

-The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

-The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

2014: (10)

-David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

-Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants by The Oatmeal

-Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

-Wild by Sheryl Strayed

-Stiff by Mary Roach

-An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

-Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

-Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

-Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder

-Columbine by Dave Cullen

2013: (13)

-The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner

-The Path Between The Seas by David McCullough

-Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

-I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman

-Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

-A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers

-Inferno by Dan Brown

-The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

-Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

-Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith

-The Brief Wondrous Live of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

-Truth in Advertising by John Kenny

-The Cell Game by Alex Prud'Homme

2012: (16)

-Walden by Henry David Thoreau

-Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

-The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

-Overtreated By Shannon Brownlee

-Listen To Your Heart by Fern Michaels (TERRIBLE BOOK!)

-The Ten, Make That Nine Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten, by Steve Martin

-The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin

-Baby Proof by Emily Giffen

-Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond

-The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

-The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

-Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

-Secrets of The Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg

-A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

-The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

-Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

2011: (20)

-Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

-I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

-Tinkers by Paul Harding

-How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

-What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

-The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

-The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

-An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

-Tea Time For the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith

-Bossypants by Tina Fey

-The Pearl by John Steinbeck

-Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

-Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillian and Al Switzler

-Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

-The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

-Of Thee I Zing by Laura Ingraham

-A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

-Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

-Trust Me I'm Dr. Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne

2010: (26)

- History's Worst Decisions and the people who made them by Stephen Weir

- Junky by William S. Burroughs

- One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell

- Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman

- Food Rules by Michael Pollan

- Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

- Drive by Daniel Pink

-The Help by Kathryn Stockett

-The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

-US Americans Talk About Love Edited by John Bowe

-For You Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl

-The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

-Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston

-The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

-Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

-You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

-Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

-I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson

-The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

-Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer

-Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

-A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

2009: (22)

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

• Remember Me? By Sophie Kinsella

• A Long Way Gone, memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah

• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

• Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill

• Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

• Crawfish Mountain by Ken Wells

• My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

• Mistakes Were Made, by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

• Gertrude by Herman Hesse

• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

- When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

- Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich

-The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

-Super Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner

2008: (21)

• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

• Inside the Minds, The Art of Public Relations by CEOs

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol

• The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones

• Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susan

• Wired by Bob Woodward

• One Pill Makes You Smaller by Lisa Dierbeck

• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

• Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg

• Pound for Pound by F.X. Toole

• All the Way Home by David Giffels

• Bonk by Mary Roach

• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

• Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris

• The Sea by John Banville

• Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

• Female Chauvinist Pigs, Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy

2007: (28)

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• 1984 by George Orwell

• What Ifs? Of American History edited by Robert Cowley

• The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

• Rabbit, run by John Updike

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

• Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald

• FiSH by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen

• The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

• 1776 by David McCullough

• Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

• Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh

• A Dog Year by Jon Katz

• 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann

• IV by Chuck Klosterman

• Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig

• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

2006: (27)

• Collapse, How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond

• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

• Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner

• Harry and Ike by Steve Neal

• State of Denial by Bob Woodward

• Crossroads in American History by James McPherson & Alan Brinkley

• The Lexus & The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

• Strategery by Bill Sammon

• Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

• Japanese Canadian Redress, The Toronto Story

• The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War by Howard Blum

• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

• Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

• Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi

• Wifey by Judy Blume

• Frantic Transmissions to and from LA by Kate Braverman

• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

• The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time by Mark Hadden

• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

• Marley & Me by John Grogan

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

• Boni y Tigre by Kathrin Sander

2005: (51)

• Guns, Germs, And Steel by Jared Diamond

• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

• Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

• Mary Magdalene by Lynn Picknett

• Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

• The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

• Bob Dylan Chronicles Volumn 1 by Bob Dylan

• Smashed by Koren Zailckas

• Culture Shock Costa Rica by Claire Wallerstein

• The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim by David Sedaris

• Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart

• All the President's Men by Bernstein & Woodward

• The Final Days by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

• The Secret Man by Bob Woodward

• Shadow (5 Pres. & the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward

• All Politics is Local, by Tip O'Neill

• What's the Matter With Kansas? (How Conservatives Won the Heart of America) by Thomas Frank

• Don't think of an Elephant by George Lakoff

• Confessions of a Political Junkie by Hunter S. Thompson

• America The Book by Jon Stuart

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London

• Animal Farm by Goerge Orwell

• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnecut

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo

• The Great Fire by Shirly Hazzard

• A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Skirt and the Fiddle by Tristian Egolf

• Drive Like Hell by Dallas Hudgens

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

• Deception Point by Dan Brown

• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyers

• Angry Housewives by Lorna Landvik

• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

• Loving Che by Ana Menendez

• Wolves in Chic Clothing by Carrie Karasyov & Jill Kargman

• Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

• And Sister by Sophie Kinsella

• Trading Up by Candace Bushnell

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Sorrell Booke as J.D. "Boss" Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard.

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From N.T. Wright to J.D. Greear: How J.I. Packer Shaped My Faith and Work https://t.co/IPpz7Z9inq pic.twitter.com/peWiou92Dg

— Michael Hogg (@mhoggin) July 21, 2020

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Dedication Exercises

15 MAY 1888. Austin Daily Statesman.

DEDICATION. Order of Exercises to be Observed To-Morrow. Grand Military Parade, Masonic Ceremonies and Dedication Speeches at the Capitol.

The following is the order of exercises for dedicating the new capitol to-morrow, from 9 a. m. until 12 noon:

The committee appointed by the senate will meet in the senate chamber, and the committee appointed by the house will meet in the hall of representatives at 8:30 to-morrow morning.

From there they will proceed to the state library hall, where they will be met by Governor Ross, Hon. John Ireland, Hon. O. M. Roberts and the special committee on reception.

The committee is as follows:

FROM THE SENATE.

Senators J. L. Camp, jr., E. G. Douglass, J. H. Calhoun, W. H. Woodward and E. J. Simkins.

FROM THE HOUSE.

Representatives Guy M. Bryan, J. N. Browning, E. W. Smith, R. E. Steele, J. M. Strong, Geo. W. Baylor and W. T. Hudgins.

The following gentlemen will also meet with the committee: Rev. J. C. Woolan, chaplain of the Texas Veteran association, who will deliver the dedication prayer; Hon. A. W. Terrell, who will deliver the address of welcome, Hon. J. V. Farwell, of the capitol building syndicate, and Mr. Gus Wilke, the builder of the state, house and Col. Abner Taylor, capitol contractor, who will present the capitol building to the people of Texas; and Hon. Temple Houston, who will accept the building on behalf of the people of Texas.

The following officials are also requested to report at this meeting in the library hall promptly at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday morning, May 18th. Hon. Wm. J. Swain, Hon. J.H. McLeary, Hon. J.D. Templeton, Hon. W.C. Walsh, Hon. W. M. Brown, Hon. F. R. Lubbock, Hon. John D. McCall, Hon. R. M. Hall, Hon. J. S. Hogg, former and present members of the capitol board, Capitol Building Commissioners Joseph Lee and M. H. McLaurin, and General R. S. Walker, superintendent of construction, the judges of the supreme court, court of appeals and commissioners of appeals, the president of the senate and the speaker of the house and Texas veterans who are in the city and such distinguished guests, including the commission from the republic.

REPUBLIC OF MEXICO

and others as the governor of Texas may invite.

A select committee of seven from the Dedication associations general reception committee to be appointed by the chairman of said committee to include the said chairman.

The committee of the House and Senate, together with the above reception committee, will then escort the above mentioned assemblage to the front portico of the capitol building, where seats will have been provided for them.

His Excellency, Governor L. S. Ross, will preside over the ceremonies.

The Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas will take a position immediately in front of said portico on a platform prepared for the Masons, including their orators and officers. The Masons are requested to make their procession and take their position in front of the building not later than 9 a. m.

At 8:30 a. m. the great military procession, escorted by not less than fifteen bands of music, including the famous Mexican band and the renowned Gilmore band, will move from the encampment grounds up First street to Congress avenue, up Congress avenue to the left of the capitol grounds, to the west gate, thence to the right, coming by the front of the capitol building and passing in review of his excellency, the governor and his distinguished guests. The military procession will continue past the building, encircling it and return down Congress avenue and Pecan street to the encampment grounds.

After the review of the troops the following will be the order of the dedication exercises.

Prayer by Rev. J. C. Woolam, chaplain Texas Veteran association.

Address of welcome by Hon. A. W. Terrell.

Presentation of the capitol building to the people of Texas by Colonel Abner Taylor, capitol contractor.

Address of Hon. Temple Houston, accepting the building on behalf of the people of Texas.

The building will then be dedicated by the Masonic grand lodge of the state of Texas, with appropriate ceremonies, when the exercises will then be concluded.

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5 Vines About enagic leveluk k8 review That You Need to See

For much of the early 1980s, the CBS prime time line-up was dominated by two shows: Dallas and The Dukes Of Hazzard. Following the adventures of the fictional Duke family of Hazzard County, Georgia, the series chronicled their endless struggles with local law enforcement officer Rosco P. Coltrane and his domineering supervisor, J.D. “Boss” Hogg. Cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy lived on the family farm with their Uncle Jesse, and friendly mechanic “Cooter” often aided them in foiling Boss’s plans, but the true star of the series was an orange race car known as the General Lee…

The Dukes Of Hazzard (Season 4) DVD features a number of exciting episodes including the season premiere Mrs. Daisy Hogg in which Jamie Lee Hogg, Bosss polite and un-Hogg-like nephew moves to Hazzard County to open an old mill. Daisy and Jamie Lee fall in love and announce their engagement, much to the chagrin of the Duke and Hogg families. But Daisy doesnt know that Jamie Lee is running a counterfeiting ring out of the mill Other notable uvioo.com/watch/?v=4EJt8FcHNFc episodes include Sadie Hogg Day in which Boss, about to get a visit from the state auditor, rigs a drawing so that Daisy becomes County Treasurer for the day making her legally responsible for the county funds, and Dear Diary in which Roscoes diary, detailing his various crimes with Boss, is left at the Duke farm by mistake. When https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?search=Kangen Jesse tries to return the diary, two crooks steal it and use it to blackmail Boss and Roscoe

Below is a list of episodes included on The Dukes Of Hazzard (Season 4) DVD:

Episode 60 (Mrs. Daisy Hogg) Air Date: 10-09-1981

Episode 61 (Double Dukes) Air Date: 10-16-1981

Episode 62 (Diamonds in the Rough) Air Date: 10-23-1981

Episode 63 (Coltrane vs. Duke) Air Date: 10-30-1981

Episode 64 (The Fugitive) Air Date: 11-03-1981

Episode 65 (The Great Bank Robbery) Air Date: 11-06-1981

Episode 66 (Sadie Hogg Day) Air Date: 11-13-1981

Episode 67 (10 Million Dollar Sheriff: Part 1) Air Date: 11-20-1981

Episode 68 (10 Million Dollar Sheriff: Part 2) Air Date: 11-20-1981

Episode 69 (Trouble at Cooters) Air Date: 11-27-1981

Episode 70 (Goodbye, General Lee) Air Date: 12-04-1981

Episode 71 (Cletus Falls in Love) Air Date: 12-11-1981

Episode 72 (Hughie Hogg Strikes Again) Air Date: 12-18-1981

Episode 73 (Dukescam Scam) Air Date: 01-01-1982

Episode 74 (The Sound of Music Hazzard Style) Air Date: 01-08-1982

Episode 75 (Shine on Hazzard Moon) Air Date: 01-15-1982

Episode 76 (Pin the Tail on the Dukes) Air Date: 01-22-1982

Episode 77 (Miz Tisdale on the Lam) Air Date: 01-29-1982

Episode 78 (Nothin But the Truth) Air Date: 02-05-1982

Episode 79 (Dear Diary) Air Date: 02-12-1982

Episode 80 (New Deputy in Town) Air Date: 02-19-1982

Episode 81 (Birds Gotta Fly) Air Date: 02-26-1982

Episode 82 (Bad Day in Hazzard) Air Date: 03-05-1982

Episode 83 (Miss Tri-Counties) Air Date: 03-12-1982

Episode 84 (Share and Share Alike) Air Date: 03-19-1982

Episode 85 (The Law and Jesse Duke) Air Date: 03-26-1982

Episode 86 (Dukes in Danger) Air Date: 04-02-1982

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Laura Ingraham faces backlash after calling child detention centers ‘summer camps’

Fox News pundit Laura Ingraham weighed into the debate about undocumented children being separated from their parents at facilities along the border by comparing the detention centers to “summer camps.”

When discussing the issue on Monday night, just hours after Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen defended President Donald Trump‘s administration’s use of its “zero tolerance” policy, Ingraham dismissed the enormous backlash (including stories and photos) against the practice of keeping children in the detention centers as “faux liberal outrage” before comparing the centers—where photos have shown people in cages and wearing silver foil blankets—to summer camps.

“Consistent with American law when the parties arrested, your children are either sent to relatives or they become wards of the state,” she said. “So since more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents, and temporarily housed in what are essentially summer camps or, as the San Diego Union Tribune described them today, as looking basically like boarding schools.”

Ingraham then said Democrats are using the outrage from Americans surrounding the policy as a “political weapon.”

She added that liberals were “attempting to emotionally manipulate the public perception of immigration enforcement.”

At the end of the show, Ingraham seemed to realize the flippant remark was causing backlash.

“Apparently there are a lot of people very upset because we referred to some of the detention facilities tonight as essentially like summer camps,” she said at the end of her show, according to Mediaite. “The San Diego Union Tribune today described the facilities as essentially like what you would expect at a boarding school. So I will stick to there are some of them like boarding schools.”

The comparison of the detention centers—where audio has surfaced of children crying for their parents—to something like a summer camp was met with scorn online.

Now accepting applications for Laura Ingraham’s Summer Camp! Your child will learn how to properly fold a foil emergency blanket and how to decorate the inside of a cage.

Sign up now for a special lesson in basketball dribbling and mocking school shooting survivors. Act fast! pic.twitter.com/QUYrhzJBCz

— J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) June 19, 2018

Great @IngrahamAngle – sounds like a fun summer plan for YOUR kids. Send them down to the detention camps – maybe one of those fancy tents – and you can just stay home and work.

Propaganda TV! https://t.co/rdpmKt9rcQ

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 19, 2018

Laura Ingraham describing detention facilities as “basically summer camps” is about as sound as describing herself as “basically credible” or “not racist.”

— feminist next door (@emrazz) June 19, 2018

Hey @IngrahamAngle can we interest you in dropping off your kids at one of these “summer camps”. They are free i assume and there is so many good things to learn while there right? I can’t seem to come up with any. Can anyone else? Why don’t you take cameras in and show us please https://t.co/5SU3YT8ZlY

— Mike Colter (@realmikecolter) June 19, 2018

Laura Ingraham calls detention camps for migrant children "essentially summer camps."

At the end of summer camp, children get to go home to their parents.

If the Trump Administration has its way these children will never see their parents again.

Disgraceful.

— Aaron Goldstein (@aargold24) June 19, 2018

Even David Hogg, the outspoken Parkland shooting survivor, revived his effort to get advertisers to pull their ads from airing on her show.

Earlier this year Hogg made an open call for his Twitter followers to demand companies pull their ads from her show after she shared a story from a conservative website about his college rejections.

So @IngrahamAngle we meet again. Who are you biggest advertisers now?

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) June 19, 2018

If we get these advertisers pulled maybe @Ingraham will have to become a camp counselor and learn how wrong she is. 1. @BeachesResorts & @SandalsResorts 2.@SIRIUSXM 3. @CarfaxReports 4. @AceHardware 5. IAC (Angie’s List, Home Advisor, Match) 6. @Cabelas 7. @JohnDeere

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) June 19, 2018

Several companies did pull ads after Hogg called the Fox News host out. We’ll see how many follow suit this time.

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American Shithole #11 — Scott Pruitt: Ambien From Oklahoma

By Eric Wilson

“I don’t want to write about these bloviating, Machiavellian fuckfaces this week!” I raged, as Monday morning slid unproductively into Monday afternoon. I nervously plucked at my guitar while watching the news cycle blitzkrieg on my monitor a few feet away — a now daily ritual.  

Mostly, I love writing this column. Some days though…

Later, from underneath the covers, I howled the muffled words “I don’t want to write about these soul-sucking servants of the shitgibbon every seven days for seven more years!” as I buried myself under a mountain of pillows.

On Wednesday I cried, “I’m staring into the void!” as I fumbled around my closet looking for a comfortable pair of pants. There was no reply from the darkness within.

“You’re fine,” I finally thought to myself, “you’re just reading too much about that conniving motherfucker, Scott Pruitt.”

Ugh, Scott Pruitt — bane of the Environmental Protection Agency. I never would have imagined that someone could actually bore me to death. Is this how he's killing the environment? Is he boring it to death?

He is a slow internet connection personified.  

I’ve read nearly 50 articles about the head of the EPA over the last few days, along with ingesting and digesting a fair amount of CNN coverage about the man — and I was uncharacteristically disinterested with all of it.

Even writers for the New Yorker and the New York Times were unable to capture my attention, as they, too, failed to bring color and life to a man will all the charm and allure of an abandoned Porta Potty.

It was the most painful slog so far, and I’ve already spent a week reading about Stephen Miller!

Never has there been a more boring villain in the Trump rogue’s gallery, than this litigious Jesus freak. Reading a bio piece on Scott Pruitt is like reading a 40-page white paper on the chemical properties of Vaseline.

I have been distracted this past week; I admit that could be part of it. A week dominated by the dangerous surgery my father was forced to undertake. (I love you, dad! Get well soon.)

But this Pruitt goon is just such an ordinary, run-of-the-mill bad guy that he can’t compete with the hyperbolic carnival barkers and legitimately terrifying shadow figures that have all come out of the woodwork. I fell asleep reading about him two nights in a row, and I’ve successfully read Moby Dick!

Okay, I haven’t. Fuck that tome. But you get the point.

In the age of comic supervillains, Pruitt comes off less like an evil genius, and more like a creepy office temp — the kind of guy that’s always looking at you when you happen to glance in their general direction.

Stop creeping on me Pruitt!

Conversely, if Pruitt were a superhero, you would find yourself constantly asking what his powers were. He’s just sort of, there. If the Trump administration were the Avengers, Pruitt would be Hawkeye.

I can just imagine eavesdropping on the conversations about Trump’s Avengers at Comic-Con:

“So what’s this Pruitt character do again?”

“He furthers the conservative agenda from within his department, he abuses housing, finance and travel privileges on the tax payer’s dime, and in general he behaves like a bought and paid for horse’s ass, born of the cronyism era of political yore.”

“So basically, he’s just a republican.”

“Yes. One that can skewer libruls with a nifty composite bow, and also turn invisible.”

“C’mon now, he can’t turn invisible, he’s just really, really boring.”

“Yes, but if his boringness results in what would effectively be invisibility, then that should be considered a power.”

“I disagree. That would be like saying…”

Ah, Comic-Con. How I long for your Nerdspeak. Someday I shall find you as crowded, overpriced and befouled by virgin body odor as I imagine you to be…

I managed to read enough about Pruitt — through caffeine-assisted focus — to understand that he is clearly another incompetent and grossly overconfident fool within this administration. They are all terrible fools, but some of them are so spectacularly inept in their villainy. Following the lead of Trump’s almost laughable bungling of everything he touches, I suppose.

What kind of fucking idiot disobeys this White House when they expressly forbid you to give lavish salary increases to friends in your department? What kind of numbskull defies this president by circumventing the law with an obscure loophole via the Safe Drinking Water Act to get two buddies roughly an extra 70K a year?

What kind of muttonhead lies about a private email account used for communications with his ties to the oil and gas industry, during the Senate confirmation hearings on his appointment to the EPA? – a crime itself.

What kind of fool perfectly positioned to dismantle Obama era EPA initiatives and regulations — something he’s worked years to accomplish — breaks the law by accepting the gift of cheap D.C. housing as quid pro quo for awarding a lucrative pipeline contract?

The boring, invisible kind of fool, apparently.

“So what’s his origin story?”

I’ll handle this, Comic-Con nerds.

Scott Pruitt is a lawyer (J.D.) and politician from Oklahoma, so his origin story is that he’s a good ol’ boy. I lived in Oklahoma for four miserable years in my youth, and if there’s a barren and lifeless place filled with more wingnuts and whackadoodles, I have not seen it.

I do not wish to ever visit such a place.

Here is a brief aside offering insight into the mindset of Oklahoma’s educational system. When I was in sixth grade in Oklahoma, they gave the incoming class various aptitude tests, and then separated the exceptionally high-scoring kids from the herd, to be educated elsewhere, along with the children exhibiting behavioral problems. I have always found it interesting that the troublemakers and the intellectually gifted were considered the same in that cultural backwater.

That was 40 years ago. I couldn’t possibly imagine what Oklahoma’s public schools have devolved into today. Oh wait, yes I can imagine, as the teachers for the entire state are on strike, due to the gross undervaluing of their services, among other indecencies and injustice.

Pruitt wasn’t formally educated in Oklahoma, he grew up in Kentucky, but you couldn’t possibly care about that, dear reader. I certainly didn’t. He moved to Tulsa in the early '90s, but no one really cares about that either. Or that he was a State Senator and then Oklahoma’s Attorney General. Zzzzzzz. Boring. He’s the Benadryl of Evil.

His whole life story is boring as shit.

I hope he gets fired so that at the very least, I never have to read about him again. Reading about this stone-faced conservative boor actually made me care less about the environment he so desperately wants to destroy; so please universe, no more Pruitt.

Unless I have insomnia, then get me that bio, pronto.

He is dangerous though, and he certainly seemed devious from the get-go. Not only did he spend several thousand dollars sweeping his new offices for bugs, he also built a super-spy silent phone booth in his office with 43K of tax payer funds.

I’ll save you all the usual links; trust me on this one, I did the fucking reading for you, and I am a less-interesting man for the effort.

There is a lot of conjecture over whether or not Pruitt is next on the chopping block. Opinions are all over the place on this one, so I’ll throw in my two cents. If he were from a family of billionaires, I would say no, he stays. This is one of the reasons DeVos will be around for a while. Pruitt is not from upper-crust wealth though. Trump ultimately sees the Pruitt types of the world as lesser, and therefore expendable; and considering the amount of bad press he’s generating for the administration, well, Trump has gotten rid of people for far less.

So, unless the heat dies down, its adios, you boring motherfucker!

Breaking News: Pruitt on the controversial pay raises for his staff: My staff did it, not me!

Here's Pruitt hammering nails into his own coffin Wednesday evening, and in an environment you would expect to be simpatico. This is a FOX News interview with Ed Henry, no less. My new prediction is he is gone by the time this posts Thursday.

B.S. Report

In case you missed it, another conservative talking head looked to belittle one of the Parkland survivors in the digital arena — this time it was Laura Ingraham gunning for David Hogg. She was outmatched. She came damn close to losing her show.

These assholes are dropping out of elections, losing advertisers — losing their jobs — every damn time they say some evil shit about these kids. THAT is power. That is their own beloved capitalism biting them in the fucking ass. Taking out a good chunk. How’d you like them apples, Laura Ingraham? I’d wager you shit your spanks when those advertisers started dropping like flies. I bet your knees were shaking like twigs in the breeze when the boys from the FOX News home office called to inform you if you still had a job.

So this goes out to all of the Fox News family, and their ilk.

Enjoy scrutinizing and fretting over every miserable fucking thing you used to be able to say with impunity — for the rest of your miserable lives — you overvalued, right-wing, shitgibbon-blowing, squawk-box media whores.

You sold out our country for ratings, and eventually America is going to make you pay for that, dearly.  

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Hogge Wins Hetrick Memorial, First Career Win For Floyd At Antioch Speedway

Hogge Wins Hetrick Memorial, First Career Win For Floyd At Antioch Speedway

Antioch, CA. — Bobby Hogge IV scored the victory in the 25 lap Jerry Hetrick Memorial for the All Star Series A Modified division Saturday night at Antioch Speedway. Hogge IV joined elite company as this was his 70th career win at Antioch.  Only J.D. Willis and Scott Busby have more Antioch wins as both have 72.  Hogge won his heat race earlier in the evening and shared the second row with…

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Boss Hogg's holdings

(Taken from the Boss Hogg Wikipedia page) Some of Boss Hogg's holdings (either directly or by mortgage) include:

The Duke Farm – Boss held the mortgage.

The Boar's Nest – the local watering hole where Daisy Duke was employed as a waitress. Boss also has an office in the back where he does most of his dealings.

Hazzard County Bank – the local bank where Boss served as president, owner, and chief operating officer (COO).

Cooter's Garage – owned by the Dukes' friend, Cooter Davenport. Boss held the mortgage.

HOGGOCO Oil and Petroleum Co. – Boss has gas stations all over Hazzard County, and Hoggoco fuel pumps in front of both The Boars Nest and Cooter's Garage.

The Hazzard County Gazette – the weekly newspaper serving Hazzard County.

The Hazzard Phone Company – Boss had all of the operators in his pocket, and his cousin Maybel or local girl Gussie tell him whenever any calls of interest came through Hazzard.

WHOGG (the Hazzard County radio station) – the only radio station in Hazzard County. Boss served as president.

The Hazzard County Grits Mill – Abandoned by Boss, only to be occupied for dubious purposes by his nephew, Jamie Lee Hogg. (portrayed by actor Jonathan Frakes)

High Heavenly Hill Cemetery – Boss charged a handsome fee to be buried here, in Hazzard's only public cemetery, sometimes even double-selling plots.

J.D. Hogg Log Mill

J.D. Hogg Ice House – Abandoned by Boss, only to be occupied by a group of crooks who are out to steal 10 million dollars from armored trucks.

J.D. Hogg Real Estate

J.D. Hogg Funeral Home

J.D. Hogg Gravel Company

J.D. Hogg Painting Company

Two unnamed used car lots. One is run by a chronically-drunk moonshiner named Hobie (portrayed by actor A. Paul Smith). The other is located in downtown Hazzard, where Boss was one of the chief salesmen.

The Hazzard Coffin Works – Boss ran the Coffin Works as a place to store his moonshine until he abandoned it. It was taken as a hide out for the ridge-runners. Then Russel Snake Harmon used the building as a place to hide and store his rattlesnakes from Texas Ranger Jude Emery.

Public services controlled by Hogg

Hazzard County Public Works

Hazzard County Sheriffs Department (Hogg is the Police Commissioner)

Hazzard County Volunteer Fire Department (Hogg is the Fire Chief. In some episodes Bo Luke and Uncle Jesse also appear to be firemen.It would seem that they put their differences aside for this although Hogg steals the alarm fees. It is said in one second season episode that a man named Amos Petersdorf is the fire chief and the fire truck and station are both different. It is possible that Hazzard has two fire companies with one commanded by Hogg and the other by Petersdorf)

Hazzard County Hospital. (It is said in a first season episode by the Balladeer that Hogg owns the hospital)