David Cantwell writes:
I have a review of the book pictured above, Dana Jennings’ Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music, up at No Depression. Though I have a few caveats with Jennings’ approach, and still scratch my head at illustrating a book titled after a Merle Haggard song with a painting of Johnny Cash […]

 
David Cantwell writes:
The morning after we elected a new president of the United States, Michelle Malkin posted a blog entry entitled So Much for AmeriKKKa, in which she asked, “If we live in such a racist country as the friends and fellow travelers of Barack Obama have argued throughout this campaign season, how did AmeriKKKa end up electing […]

 
David Cantwell writes:
A small thing but appropriate…I awoke Wednesday and set about my morning ritual of reading the paper, drinking coffee and solving the New York Times crossword, and in the edition of the puzzle in that day’s Kansas City Star I found the clue: “poem with the line, ‘They send me to eat in the kitchen’.” […]