About once or twice a month, I'll see some piece in the news talking about the heartland, and 'small-town' America. I've come to the opinion that most people really don't know what small town America really means.
Small town, America....is where little league games happen on hot Saturday afternoons, with ice cream later.
Small town, America....is where you know your barber, your mechanic, your plumber, and your neighbor on a first-name basis.
Small town, America....is where you trust your local politician not to cheat you too much or siphon off tax revenues to buy a modern-age statue of a penguin.
Small town, America....is where you go to funerals of people that you've known for thirty years and considered a friend.
Small town, America....is where you go fishing a dozen times a year with your high school friend and your wife's cousin Larry who does transmission repairs.
Small town, America....is where your kids are safe and the porch light is turned off by 9PM.
Small town, America....is where you do charity socials for folks who need cancer operations and don't have much money to cover all their expenses.
Small town, America....is where you attend a local church but never appreciate the minister standing on your front porch and chatting about Moses to you.
Small town, America....is where you get drunk once a year at the high school reunion meeting, and meet with a bunch of guys who are losers just like yourself.
Small town, America....is where pumpkins are grown and part of decoration in October.
Small town, America....is where you keep a gun in the closet by the door, but haven't fired it in twenty years....and its likely that the ammo will malfunction anyway, if you do fire.
Small town, America....is where Wal-mart has yet to arrive.
Small town, America....is where a catfish restaurant sits on main street and you can still get a all-you-can-eat deal for $9.99.
Small town, America....is where your Uncle Barney still tells WW II stories, although half the time he is in Africa fighting the Nazis and half the time he's in the Pacific fighting the Japs.....and the reality is that Barney was 18 in 1945 and had barely gotten into basic training when the war ended.
Small town, America....is where your wife has tinted her hair and you think she's a new woman entirely. Later, you put on some Barry Manilow music and get her to put on the Madonna outfit that you bought via the internet.
Small town, America....is where your septic tank has failed but you have 44 guys ready to tell you how you can replace it yourself without paying Walt's Septic and Supply to do it for you. After failing miserably, you pay Walt's Septic and Supply to quietly fix what you screwed up and just let your reputation stay intact.
Small town, America....is where a parade occurs each fourth of July with veterans and kids involved. Later you grill some steaks and drink some fresh lemonade. And that night, you watch some kid light up $100 worth of fireworks, which accidentally set fire to some farmer's field and you spend two hours stomping out the field fire.
Small town, America....is where the only murder in the past decade was the local Baptist minister who got shot by some guy who came home early from work to find his wife in a inappropriate position with the minister.
The truth is that we all live in Small town, America....and we really don't care to move or be somewhere else.
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Six Things I Tend To Believe Today
1. About 30-percent of Americans are secret-support-Trump folks....who hide their feelings from the spouse, the family, the work-place and even the church. Even in a stage of drunkenness....they have the 'control' to avoid talking about Trump.
The same group....see the hate-Trump folks....as cult-like and treat them like a low-IQ person.
2. If you are attending a Bible-college and borrowing $20,000 a year from the fed's.....you are begging society to accept you in the role of 'slave-status'.
3. When someone says you need to detail something...in plain-English....you need to grasp real quick that something started out uncomplicated....got into rocket-science level, and now the focus is to turn the reading material back into 7th-grade level reading.
4. Asking a wife how her day was....is not a wise move. Her response will always be negative or critical.
5. Just odd how 10-percent of Democrats today....still linger on how Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election. Almost two years have passed, and this group continue to get pumped-up and bothered by it.
Oddly, among this 10-percent group....probably half of them think/believe....that Joe Biden intentionally 'SUNK' Kamala's campaign.....getting back at Obama's involvement in this whole 2024 campaign.
6. There are occasions that I see fake images/news, and I kinda wish I could UNVIEW them....they linger on my mind. I debate....well....even as fake images/news, I wish they were true.
Reversal of Lesbianism?
There was a trend starting up in 2016....young ladies in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade....who wanted to become lesbians. At some point around 2020....it took off and went turbo....with 25-percent of 9th grade young ladies...hyped-up and admitting they were lesbian-types.
So the same poll went out last year and the 9th grade girl group....had fallen to around 13-percent saying they were lesbian. The 10th/12th grade group? They were still lingering around 17-percent.
My question....what happened in the 2016 to 2020 era to get the numbers so high?
I asked Grok/AI and he brings up an interesting 'twist'....that around a dozen TV shows (some streaming) were prominently featuring lesbian characters.
A fad? Well....one thing I noted....around 2020 to 2025....these lesbian characters peaked out. Either the network saw a reason to lessen content, or they saw a limited story theme to tell.
All of these four trend-lines still in decline? Yeah, that's another odd part of the story. I would imagine if they continue to collect data....by 2027....the four groups (9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade girls) will be at 10-percent or less.