Labor pains?
A fellow Memphis blogger makes one of the more hopeful regional observations I’ve seen in a while:
I can’t shake the feeling that Memphis is just about to bust wide open, we’ve held [ourselves] back for so long that something’s got to give. There is a [tangible] sense here of a city about to give birth to itself. Like I said, I’ve lived here all my life, and the city has never seemed like this before. I don’t know what it is, but it’s coming soon.
Check out other writings at The Pesky Fly, “a group blog in Memphis, Tennessee.”

Thanks for the link, it makes it a damn sight easier for me to find other Memphians on the web. You have been bookmarked and noted.
I should add that one of the Flypaper Theorists, the Christian Progressive Liberal, is operating out of Oakland, California, so we’re not entirely in Memphis, but close enough.
— autoegocrat Monday January 2, 2006 #Perusing your blog, specifically, “Tread lightly on the things of earth” (and I thought my blog logo was elongated), I have arrived at what I believe is a defensible inference. Both you and your readers would welcome news of in-your-face overt opposition to your “smirking chimp”, my “dum’ya botch”.
In plainer terms, I want to run for Representative for Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District on a platform calling for the impeachment of President George Walker Bush.
Incidentally, I deliberately referred to your blog, to indicate that I visited your blog as an individual, and not as a spammer. Yes, that last is an illustion to a “pre-deconstruction” chick flick with a rating of two and a half hankies.
Oh, alright (!) already, I’ll own up to it. I owe getting my message out to so many bloggers to COPY/PASTE … gim’me a break … will’ya puh-lease! I got to get the word out somehow.
Ah, before you click on any of the enclosed hyperlinks, please read the entirely of my comment. For example, the three planks I nailed together in my platform out to get me elected. “impeach bush” is the first plank. The second is “impeach bush”. The third is like the second, “impeach bush”.
To continue, the first hyperlink below leads to the opening salvo of my campaign.
» he who is known as sefton: danger, Senator Specter, danger
As for the second hyperlink, it leads to evidence that my candidacy is about more than opposition solely for the sake of opposition.
» he who is known as sefton: dispelling the stench in the Oval
toodles … …\ .he who is known as sefton
oh, by the bye, it’s a good guess you’ll find what I have to say in PROMETHEAN COMMENT interesting to the point of startling. In that segment, I advance the case that the mere nomination of Judge Alito is tantamount to treason.
— A Alexander Stella Monday January 16, 2006 #