BOO-BOO: Redneckognize

It all started with a toddler in a tiara, but TLC knows a money mine when it sees one.

Couch potatoes grab the remote and nestle into their favorite spot. New Year’s resolution gym goers have hopped on the treadmills. Business people wait for their connecting flights in airport cafes. Televisions are being turned on across the country.

Unless you have been living in a town much smaller and more remote than McIntyre, Georgia, I’m sure you have heard of Honey Boo Boo. For an hour each week, Alana Thompson welcomes television watching American’s into her family’s home. She’s introduced us to Glitzy, Sugar Bear, Go-Go Juice, and encouraged her fellow Americans to “redneckognize.”

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It’s Sexist Month, Y’all!

Comic by Paul Rice

Dear readers, we find ourselves in the midst of another furry November. It has come to our attention that a new stipulation on exactly how much hair– and most telling, where –can be grown. Readers, we are speaking of none other than Movember, the biggest example of terrible hairy sexism these writers have yet seen.

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Doing the Right Thing

Image Courtesy of the World Wide Web.  Stop SOPA

Doing the right thing. These four words, which are so simple when apart, sound so extremely hard to do when put together. In today’s day and age, it has become increasingly difficult to always do what is morally right, as opposed to what other people in society are doing. And yet, aren’t we as humans put on earth to work together and help society succeed as a whole? It seems as if lately people have forgotten the reason we are here on earth.

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Being Religious: A Pleasure, Not a Pain

In today’s day and age it sometimes seems as if religion is becoming a thing of the past. Of course, there are tons of churches throughout America, especially in the South, but it still seems as if people do not follow religion as closely as they used to.

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Five Types of People That Suck All The Fun Out of Your Life

1.  The one who always has to have something drastically wrong with his/her life. You know, the one whose fight with his/her mom turns into “oh-my-gosh-I’m-being-disowned.” The one whose bad dinner turns into the end of the world. And you’re always the problem solver. Not fun at all.

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The Help is Showing This Weekend

The Laurens County Theater was packed this Saturday. Why? Because The Help was showing. The movie was simply fabulous; it had been built up by so many people that I almost expected it to be a let-down, but it exceeded all my expectations.

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SUB Movie Night!

The Laurens Capitol Theater has a very nice, relaxed feel. It is quite unlike most movie theaters. When you first walk in, it looks like you’re walking into a diner. The movie theater is in the back, so you walk through the restaurant and then you get to the ticket booth, which is very retro looking. If you have not eaten before going to the movie, you can get dinner and sit in the back of the theater to watch the movie, where there are tables set up. There are also your normal concession options, and the prices are really reasonable.

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