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What's the least redneck thing about you? I have a nice house. Some people get disappointed. They'll come to end of the street and drop by and they're like, "Oh, you don't live in a trailer." Not anymore...
...allowed to use the word redneck. But should someone from say, New York City, feel bad about using the term? I think there's a difference between laughing with and laughing at [people,] and I think that's why it's okay for me to do it. The whole thing started because that's all people called me. I'd go to work in New York and Chicago and people would be hanging around saying, "Foxworthy, you're nothin' but an ol' redneck from Georgia." And I'm like, "Well yeah, I am." If I was in New York...
...survive. So he has joined other disillusioned university graduates among the KIA ranks. "Some people say we must have dialogue with the SPDC," he says, referring to the junta by its Orwellian-sounding moniker, the State Peace and Development Council. "But that is a snail's pace. The only thing the SPDC understands is force, so we must meet their force with ours...
...space? "I believe we should go to the moon," President Kennedy announces. "I have a dream," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declares as the world around him burns. Maybe the promise is realized, even surpassed; maybe it keeps receding, pulling us along. "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time," Abraham Lincoln supposedly observed. Which is true for those in charge of creating it but maybe not for the rest of us. When we pause and look back, we get to see the past's future, know how the story turned...
...Narcissism Epidemic. "You're curious to see what she looks like, and it's easy to fantasize about alternative courses your life might have taken." It's the same feeling that compels people to attend high school reunions. In a way, these meet-ups are the same thing, especially for people like Los Angeles film developer Jillian Stein, 30, who traveled to her hometown of Tampa, Fla., and had three Facebook- and MySpace-inspired reunions within 72 hours...