Seeding Spartanburg

Come to Spartanburg!! This morning a guy named Cooter posted a link on the Goupstate forums encouraging folks to go vote for Spartanburg as a location for Trader Joe's to move to next. Trader Joe's is cool. And affordable. And privately owned and operated. We used to shop there when we lived in California and they are [...]

I laughed when I read about Scott McClellan's new book this morning. Of course the Bush Administration is a COMPLETE failure. Who in the hell couldn't see that from the get-go? Everyone that hangs out on my porch saw it from the beginning. I do pride myself in the company I keep. Sour grapes? Yeah. [...]

the "leaders" (and I use that term loosely) should be worrying about things like public education, economic development and the overall well being of the citizens of this state. Not license plates. Just one more example of the sad state South Carolina is in. t

Go together just like peas and carrots. Or at least according to a recent 2008 study conducted by Dr Vini Khurana, a Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon with an advanced neurosurgery Fellowship in cerebral vascular and tumour microsurgery from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona and now a neurosurgeon at Canberra Hospital, Australia.  Dr Khurana writes: “It is [...]

Couldn't resist sharing this article from CNN.com. Your Blog Can Be Group Therapy So true. This blog and my readers (all four of you) have played such a huge role in my personal growth throughout the past few years. It has no doubt been an incredible part of the journey that I wouldn't take anything [...]

I enjoy Gervais over at BBQ & Politics SOooooooooo much. His use of the word tally-whacker in his most recent post…fantastic. But, that's not what I was originally sharing…it was Gervais's post that took me to Bob Dalton's (SHJ Reporter) post on his blog on the SC Club for Growth which made me smile. Bob [...]

Over the past year or so, after watching “The Future of Food” my attention has been drawn to food labeling and Monsanto and I’ve desperately tried to draw the attention of others. I really don’t know how else to get people to pay attention to what this company is doing without flat out begging each [...]