🎵And my mama cried
When she realized
I ain't pageant material
I'm always higher than my hair
And it ain't that I don't care about world peace
But I don't see how I can fix it in a swimsuit on a stage 🎵
I mean, this woman knows southern society:
🎶Oh, I bet you think you're John Wayne
Showing up and shooting down everybody
You're classic in the wrong way
And we all know that you know the story 🎶
I mean, does she not?!
🎶If you ain't got two kids by 21
You're probably gonna die alone
At least that's what tradition told you
And it don't matter if you don't believe
Come Sunday mornin', you best be there
In the front row like you're supposed to 🎶
Oh, she does:
🎶 Mama's hooked on Mary Kay
Brother's hooked on Mary Jane
And Daddy's hooked on Mary two doors down
Mary, Mary quite contrary
We get bored, so we get married
Just like dust, we settle in this town
On this broken merry go 'round 🎶
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Not only did Chuck Todd let Meghan McCain tell a lie on air without correcting her, but @MeetThePress then tweeted the lie as fact with no fact check. So here's a fact check:
Support for "Build Back Better" plan by poll:
Navigator: 66%
LCV: 73%
Data for Progress: 66%
SEIU: 65%
After the #UMEmails revealed racist, sexist & homophobic emails, Will Norton appeared to depart the university in May.
But now he's returned to the campus, serving as a senior fellow at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. 2/mississippifreepress.org/16257/ex-dean-…
Donor: "Ole Miss (has) problems when Black hookers are working on Jackson Ave...I know what happens when a place is taken over by the wrong elements."
I called Subway and told them my BLT was missing the L and the T.
They told me it's because I was supposed to specify that I wanted lettuce and tomatoes added to my BLT when I ordered. 😵💫
They replaced it for free (minor time and driving back costs aside). I don't blame the workers for it.
I'm just bewildered that someone in management decided the rule was not to put lettuce and tomatoes on BLT unless someone specified they want them added to their... BLT. 😂
And please don't @ the company, I've no interest in getting anyone at my local store in trouble assuming it was a local management decision that things work this way. I'm just amused.
NEW: Two suburban Mississippi school districts are ditching mask mandates for 32,000 students, citing declining COVID-19 cases.
One superintendent said mask mandates had helped improve the situation enough to return to "a greater sense of normalcy." mississippifreepress.org/16223/%E2%80%8…
While suburban Rankin County and Madison County schools are ditching mask mandates, the nearby Jackson Public School District is going in the opposite direction: Jackson will soon begin requiring COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing for all K-12 staff.mississippifreepress.org/16223/%E2%80%8…
Jackson Public Schools began the year with a mask mandate in place, while Rankin County Schools began with masks optional on Aug. 6.
There's nothing wrong at all with using gender neutral language.
But if you're going to quote a woman who was very specifically talking about women and the challenges women face in a sexist society, don't neutralize her words.
For the same reason, if I were quoting a late trans rights pioneer who was specifically talking about trans issues, I wouldn't dare replace "trans people" in a quote of theirs with, "[people]" for the purpose of being more inclusive to non-binary people.
Being more inclusive is good, yet I'm wary of changing other people's meanings and contexts generally (I mean, I'm a journalist).
The good news is that I can be more inclusive in my own language without doing that.
"Tate Reeves’ cruel failure constitutes a kind of child abuse. ... If your child caught COVID or had to be quarantined from exposure to the virus in the first six weeks of school, you’d only have Tate Reeves to blame," writes Dr. Douglas Chambers. mississippifreepress.org/16203/gov-tate…
Here's just how much worse COVID-19 is in Mississippi schools this fall vs. last fall: After just 5 weeks, 2x as many K-12 children had tested positive for COVID-19 as during all of fall 2021.
In fact, we've surpassed the entire 2020-2021 school year. Chart via @MSFreePress.