I earned $2.12 today by selling a book on Half.com and have decided on a new career. Listed three, so two to go. Got to get rid of those 1,000s of books in my basement. And, after all, everyone who sells part-time on Ebay makes about $1,000 a month. Oh wait, that’s a new urban myth.

The Hillbilly Sophisticate has got me on a “WV in the media” watch. Actually, I was already on the job, cringing as the liberals in the Bartlett administration spouted compassionate junk about the folks in the heartland, yet let the writers make WV a scapegoat more than once. We’re not more likely than average to have white supremacists living here, I think, but not less likely than average, either. It’s another media myth that only Southern states have rural populations (rednecks, farmers, & country folk). I saw plenty of them in California & Oregon, and I’m pretty sure they’re all over. But in the movies, they’re only in the South. (Excuse the rampant generalizations.)

But…..the photos in the Jessica Lynch story that appeared two Sundays ago in the Sunday magazine of the Herald-Dispatch were fantastic. Her hometown was positively bucolic–country roads, little white church, and all.

I’d have guessed Vermont.