If you haven’t already, you need to go ahead and cancel those Friday night plans.

Sit ya ass down and watch the debates.
One thing that you may want to pay attention to is the location. Don’t get it twisted — Barack is playing a road game. In case you didn’t know, Barack Obama and Seargant Slaughter are debating in Oxford, MS on Ole (as in “Grand Ole Party”) Miss campus. As your Mississippi ambassador, I will impart a few bits knowledge about the home in which our first presidential debate will be held. Now, don’t go off talking about how twisted things are in the South. This is just one pocket of the very diverse and three-dimensional state I love.
Disclaimer: Some of these tidbits will be mildly subjective
- I fucking hate Ole Miss and everything it stands for.
- Ole Miss’ mascot is the Rebel. As in the rebels who fought for the Confederacy. He wears and old Confederate army suit, ready to shoot down those slave-freeing bastards.
- As a senior in high school, I received an invitation to apply for a scholarship at Ole Miss. The Trent Lott Scholarship to be exact. I politely declined. Read the rest of this entry »