Sean of the South is right (he nearly always is). A tomato sandwich is to be on white bread. If you see a man eating a tomato sandwich on whole wheat bread, you know you're looking at a communist.  What I do not appreciate is when Sean rekindles and stirs up the Mayonnaise Wars. There's enough divisiveness as it is, and we don't need even more division among us Southerners. Sean says Duke's, I like Duke's mayo fine, it's a little more tart than Hellmann's mayonnaise, I like the lemony taste that I sense in Hellmann's. A friend likes Blue Plate first and Hellmann's second. I like Blue Plate mayo fine too, it doesn't seem to hold its shape as well as Hellmann's as it ages in the refrigerator, though. We count on a jar of mayo lasting almost a week. This is the South, and about all we have left that we can go to war about without getting on the wrong side of politically correct issues like Woke is mayonnaise; and the Mayo War, sadly, is only f...

Early on 7H porch, lightning in clouds offshore over the Gulf of Mexico. In the darkness I brushed a small flying insect off my computer screen, hoping I didn't sweep it into my cup of coffee.  As the sky lightens, a cloud off 7H that from here conveys the image of a scallop shell. +++++++++ It isn't a challenge, it's a fact: few or none will read The Atlantic essay (scroll down). It's apt, but far too long for general reading.  Still, the essay is right on. Americans have, America has, grown mean, we have discarded our moral compass, our sense of common courtesy and human decency. Any attempt to set or reset objective standards meets the postmodern objection that what is right or wrong depends entirely on your perspective; and with slavery and its ongoing aftermath we were never right in the first place. So we've come down to self ("America First" is not the slogan of a kind and generous folk) and we are selfish, defensive, self-protective. Humans turned ...