“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery.
The politician will be only too happy to abdicate
in favor of his image, because the image will
be much more powerful than he could ever be.”
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Sometimes these posts fly from my fingers like bolts of lightning, but the majority of the time the process is closer to extracting a splinter – lots of poking, prodding, and scraping before completing the task. Today fall’s into the latter camp. There is a lot of things I think need hitting, and I’m going to try and cover as many as possible today. Some will require going backward and revisiting in the coming weeks, but hopefully, we’ll lay the groundwork. So forgive me if this feels more scattered than usual, but let’s see if I can pull some threads together.
TRAGEDY IN ANTIOCH
As happens all too often, today’s offering starts with tragedy. Earlier in the week, a 15-year-old male was shot at killed at his home in Antioch. Per the Tennessean, EJ Utley was a freshman at Hillsboro HS. Despite being a freshman, he saw significant playing time with the Hillsboro HS football team this past season. By all accounts, he was a good student, who stuck mostly to himself. His killer allegedly hid on his porch while a young lady visited Utley in his house. After about 10 minutes of her arrival, Utley came out on his porch where he was ambushed by his CONTINUE READING: A BUCKET OF NUGGETS – Dad Gone Wild