The latest Woodpile Report is up

Posted on January 14, 2014 by KG

and Remus deals to a creep. Beautifully.
‘Appalachia is sure-fire material for standup comedians and hatchet-job movies. We know what to expect from the first y’all. What to keep in mind when reading snark like The White Ghetto is the difference between stereotype and caricature. Stereotypes don’t arise from nothing at all, and they’re unfair only to the exceptions, whereas caricature is unfair by intent and admits no exceptions. Mr. Williamson’s essay has no purpose but caricature…’
Wabbit’s had a long time fascination with Appalachia and the people who live there and the more he learns, the more respect he has for those people. It’s one of the major regrets of his life that he’ll now never get to see it and meet some of them. So it’s good to see Williamson well bitten.

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11 Responses to The latest Woodpile Report is up

  1. Ronbo says:
    January 15, 2014 at 01:10

    I grew up in Huntington, West (BY GOD!) Virginia and I agree with Remus – Appalachia is a different world – 99% white, mostly Scot-Irish-German 18th century ancestry, 95% Protestant living in a not very wealthy, although very beautiful, part of the country.

  2. Mathew says:
    January 15, 2014 at 06:57

    I don’t know much about them or that place, but it sounds like they’re poor but quite happy living there. And it sounds like they’re not really yearning or whining for some one from the big government to come and help them.

    Perhaps that’s the real source of the irritation. Too many of these smug, self righteous bastards out there who think they’re smarter than everyone else and they know how to make you happy.

  3. Contempt says:
    January 15, 2014 at 07:55

    If you like Appalachia, you can keep Appalachia. Period. Once knew a girl whose Daddy was a coal miner in East Kentucky. Quite an upbringing. America the Beautiful as compared to the God Damn America Americans we have as “leaders.”

  4. Oswald Bastable says:
    January 15, 2014 at 15:17

    Dang city fellers say ‘moonshine swigging hillbilly rednecks’ like that’s a bad thing! :mrgreen:

  5. Wombat says:
    January 15, 2014 at 16:30

    He must have traveled with a local Sherpa guide or something. How else could he have evaded the inbred mutant cannibal hillbillies?

    As I understand it, you’re one flat tire or wrong turn from becoming an appetizer in that neck of the woods. :roll:

    • KG says:
      January 15, 2014 at 17:20

      Pathetic, isn’t it? I wonder if the clown’s ever had an original thought?

      • Wombat says:
        January 15, 2014 at 22:12

        I actually like the effect those movies have on people. I remember in my teens traveling through country towns and being shit-scared of the locals.
        Now I live in a country town and I see that same look on the faces of the guys stopping for directions in their SUVs. :lol:

        • KG says:
          January 15, 2014 at 22:13

          :mrgreen: All we get coming through here seems to be retired gummint “workers” with huge superannuation payouts, even bigger mobile homes and a snotty, condescending attitude.
          They’re known as “grey nomads” but they’re effing tourists, moving from one freebie to the next. And their radio conversations are pathetic. (Wabbit likes to cut in occasionally with something like “ace 42, I TOLD YOU somebody would find the body if we buried it there…oops wrong channel” or “this one’s got an ok wife..we’ll follow ’em until they stop. You take care of the husband” )

          • Ronbo says:
            January 16, 2014 at 00:08

            I wonder what the retired government parasites are to do when the checks stop coming :?:

            We who live in the real world and close the bone know how to survive on next to nothing, but what about a fat EPA bureaucrat with no practical skills and low intelligence :?:

            The world is headed for “The Great Global Meltdown” – thanks to the dark deeds of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the herding of all the world’s major economic powers into the “U.S. dollar reserve currency reservation” which makes disaster almost inevitable when someone pulls the curtain to reveal “The Wizard of Oz” in charge of the Fed is nothing but a little man commanding a room of smoke and mirrors.

            How bad are things? It would appear the gold at Ft. Knox is about all gone. The Germans demanded their gold be returned to them by the first of the year. The Feds said “no” – but did agree to a return of 10% of the German gold…However, not in the original bars.

            I cannot believe the Germans were stupid enough to give their gold to America, but apparently during the Cold War, some bureaucrat at the Fed convinced them the Red Army was too close to the German gold, so they’d better move it to Ft. Knox. :sad:

            Hence, it’s safe to say that any nation who gave gold to the USA for safekeeping are screwed, because good old Uncle Sugar has melted it down and sent it out to his creditors.