http://www.jowilson.org/weblog/archives/2010/01/20/i-would-not-make-a-good-serf/ A weblog for people who otherwise wouldn't. Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.jowilson.org/weblog/archives/2010/01/20/i-would-not-make-a-good-serf/comment-page-1/#comment-231060 Jeff Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:21:54 +0000 http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/?p=1233#comment-231060 This sounds like the occasional "unreconstructed southerner" I see around. A lot of these people seem to romanticize the antebellum South, but they fail to recognize that normal people (including me) are incredibly more likely to have been bone-crushingly poor sharecroppers than people sipping mint juleps on their plantation front porches. This sounds like the occasional “unreconstructed southerner” I see around. A lot of these people seem to romanticize the antebellum South, but they fail to recognize that normal people (including me) are incredibly more likely to have been bone-crushingly poor sharecroppers than people sipping mint juleps on their plantation front porches.

]]> http://www.jowilson.org/weblog/archives/2010/01/20/i-would-not-make-a-good-serf/comment-page-1/#comment-231046 N Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:29:25 +0000 http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/?p=1233#comment-231046 Reminds me of how whenever you hear people talk about remembering past lives, they're usually Joan of Arc or Julius Caesar or something. No one ever thinks that they're the reincarnation of a janitor. Reminds me of how whenever you hear people talk about remembering past lives, they’re usually Joan of Arc or Julius Caesar or something. No one ever thinks that they’re the reincarnation of a janitor.

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