In the same town, a man was caught in a police sting operation while having carnal relations with show hogs.
I'm curious as to the nature of this sting operation.
"It's not hazing you. All the new members of the vice squad start out wearing the hog suit."
To move from Lower Manhattan to rural Mississippi is probably the most extreme culture shock available in this country
I bet Mississippi to Manhattan would be extremer. Get on it NYT.
What about England to Red Gap, Washington?
yet you see more ease and conviviality between blacks and whites than in the rest of America
It's too bad this turns out to mean everyone's apparently OK with de facto segregation.
So many Anaïs Nin jokes unmade. A dead legacy?
I recommend the story about Margaret Trudeau linked in the OP, and the repentent journalist linked from there.
Some of them hadn't even seen a Macbook before.
(Actually a not bad article on internet access in rural Mississippi but I couldn't resist after this pull quote: I pulled over at a McDonalds to use its Wi-Fi. A fellow customer asked me what kind of computer I was using. She had never seen a Mac before.)
PC/Mac owner relations are so convivial in the Delta that people don't even see their neighbor's brands.
My truck once overheated on the highway from Memphis to Jackson, and I pulled off at an establishment that looked just like the picture in that article. But it was closed, because Sunday.
I've actually made a pilgrimage to the place pictured in the article.
This, from the original link, is entirely perfect.
Cathy Thompson, a labor and delivery nurse, had bought an AK-47 for stress relief during menopause. "I don't know what women in New York do," she said in a fast-paced drawl. "Probably see a therapist, or get on meds. I got my AK and a T-shirt that said, 'I'm Out of Estrogen and I Have a Gun.'"