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Tennessee

Kafka and Earnhardt walk into a bar

· What one Knoxvillian had to do to get a COVID vaccine ·

“It’s been a difficult year for all of us,” I said to the Tennessee National Guard sergeant. “I’m not going to say what my political views are,” I continued, “but regardless of the blame, it’s been a hard year for all Americans.” We dallied there, he and I, waiting for the fifteen minutes that the…

The Tennessee-Alabama racist tchotchke and Confederate dreamcatcher emporium

There is a lovely road that leads out of Nashville and into the hills. Before the hills, there are suburbs all the way to Murfreesboro. Then there is a place in Manchester where they’ve widened the road to accommodate the yearly music festival there. The road climbs about thirty miles to Monteagle: from there, if…