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Posted on 11.25.11 by Danny Glover @ 7:12 pm
You might be a redneck … if you insulate your shed with beer boxes. That’s what we discovered today when visiting my grandfather’s West Virginia farm, which has been abandoned for about two years since my uncle’s death.  
For the record, a previous tenant from long ago added the insulation. We visited the same shed years ago while that tenant lived there, and the shed also was full of deer hides and beer cans. I was glad when my uncle returned home and we finally quit renting the property to that bum. What I don’t know is if the tenant also is responsible for the bullet holes that riddle the door and walls of the same shed. I didn’t notice those bullet holes until today, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the guy who rented the place entertained himself by sitting on the front porch and shooting the shed across Indian Creek Road from the house. Filed under: Family and Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and Rednecks and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.31.11 by Danny Glover @ 10:27 pm
Sometimes we West Virginia University fans have a twisted sense of humor. Our “Backyard Brawl” rivalry with the Pitt Panthers brings out the best of the worst within us.  The Mountaineers win the “Front-Porch Pumpkin Brawl”! Filed under: Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.30.11 by Danny Glover @ 9:08 pm
Andrew Luck definitely has enlightened redneck potential. He’s a football star at an elite school (Stanford University), a candidate for the coveted Heisman Trophy and the son of West Virginia University athletic director Oliver Luck (once a Rhodes Scholar candidate from WVU). But Andrew Luck also is not afraid to blow projectile snot out his nose on national television: I saw this happen live last night, but it was late. I thought maybe Luck had spit and the camera angle made it look like snot. Instant replay, however, confirmed that I saw what I thought I saw. Someone get the man a hanky! Filed under: Just For Laughs and People and Redneck Humor and Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.20.11 by Danny Glover @ 9:21 pm
Embarrassing as it is to admit, this snapshot is from my home town — Paden City, W.Va.
Talk about a high-voltage splint! The friend who posted this photo to Facebook said the power line has been in this state of dangerous disrepair for a month now. I love my heritage. West Virginia is a beautiful state full of generous, kind and humble people. But when I see images like this, it’s hard to refute the hillbilly stereotype of the great Mountain State. Of course, that’s also part of our charm. Filed under: Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.17.11 by Danny Glover @ 5:55 pm
Politicians who say “I’m going for the hick vote” significantly lower their chances of getting it. Liberal Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who fancies herself an “elite hick,” made that mistake last week on the LeftAhead podcast, Politico reports. Here’s what she told her interviewer, who also touted his redneck roots in Oklahoma and West Virginia:
Warren undoubtedly is an elite and may well be an elite hick. But that’s a fer piece (as we hicks say) from “enlightened redneck.” True hicks and rednecks don’t have to tell people that’s what they are. They live it. I have yet to see it in Warren. Filed under: News & Politics and People and Rednecks and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.24.11 by Danny Glover @ 11:28 am
I discovered an awesome blog and website called Snoburbia in the latest issue of SOJ Insider, the magazine of the journalism school at West Virginia University.
Snoburbia is the kind of blog enlightened rednecks can appreciate. I love this insight into the blog from the SOJ Insider story:
I love Nutella, too, and I’m not ashamed to “check in” at fast-food places via location-based services like Foursquare or to eat at chain restaurants like Applebee’s — two decisions which have surprised some D.C. friends. One day I may even order a Redneck Snack Basket. Sullivan has turned Snoburbia into the kind of brand I’d love to have for enlightened rednecks. She sells t-shirts and an array of other products that illustrate the absurdity and condescension of suburbia. The image above of a U.S. map as coastal snobs see it is my favorite. Filed under: Blogging and Food and Rednecks and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.26.11 by Danny Glover @ 6:44 pm
“Fact: There are no parental rights in the Constitution.” And the government — in the form of arrogant teachers and education bureaucrats who think they know best and do-gooder activist judges who take their side — is undercutting those rights every day. Here’s a taste of the disturbing evidence: The U.S. education system is full of committed teachers and administrators who focus on teaching the basics children need to excel in life. They care about their students, and they deserve the support of every parent. But a vocal and powerful minority of educators is even more committed to shaping children’s minds in ways that have nothing to do with reading, writing and arithmetic — and they will not be deterred by engaged, informed parents. The situation already is bad in America, which is one reason why we home-school (and under a religious exemption at that). It’s also why, as long as our children are of school age, we are unlikely to ever move to my much-beloved home state of West Virginia, where unenlightened rednecks are trying to impose invasive rules on home-schoolers. But the conditions could get much worse for parents if the U.S. government embraces the ideas of people who want to create a Global Nanny State. Fight that possibility by signing the petition for a Parental Rights Amendment. Filed under: Culture and Government and Home Schooling and News & Politics and Parenting and Religion and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.31.11 by Danny Glover @ 8:54 am
A new era of West Virginia University football begins in a month. Let’s hope it offers as much drama on the football field this fall as it has off of the field the past few months! Filed under: Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.24.11 by Danny Glover @ 12:42 pm
When I was 8 years old, tragedy struck our small West Virginia town. Paden City High School caught fire on Jan. 8, 1975, and the school that knit together a community was destroyed. I remember that Wednesday well to this day. I watched the flames and smoke rise as we went to Bible study that evening and still saw them when we left. Paden City has never been home to more than a few thousand people, and the city limits stretch little more than a mile from one end to the other. Everyone knew what was happening that night, and all of us were horrified. Now there’s old-fashioned reel video of that historic day on YouTube: In case you’re wondering, the county finished rebuilding Paden City High School a couple of years later, so when I started my freshman year in 1981, it was in a mostly new building. The gymnasium, band room and shop rooms in the back part of the school survived the fire and are there to this day. Filed under: History and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.11.11 by Danny Glover @ 12:46 pm
This joke, forwarded by my Dad, perfectly captures the thinking of West Virginians (and I suspect most everyone else in “flyover country”) about Washington:
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Posted on 02.14.11 by Danny Glover @ 11:07 am
On this Valentine’s Day, I will let the eloquent, passionate, late senator from West Virginia, Robert Byrd, speak for me about the importance of a soul mate to a man: My guiding light, my angel from the sky, is Kimberly Johnson Glover. Like too many middle-aged men who become complacent in marriage and take for granted the value of a God-fearing wife and mother, I don’t tell her — or show her — often enough how important she is in my life. Today is a good day to start. Yesterday would have been better. Tomorrow will be. Filed under: Family and Holidays and People and Religion and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.12.11 by Danny Glover @ 8:58 pm
This all-star goes to the University of Connecticut, so that means West Virginia University’s defense will be trying to stop him. I’m thinking the Mountaineers will need to blitz nonstop to throw Johnny McEntee off his timing. Of course, I don’t actually believe he made all of those trick shots on the first attempt. It’s easy to make things appear as they aren’t by editing film. But that McEntee successfully performed so many of these trick shots is awe-inspiring. Filed under: Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.01.10 by Danny Glover @ 3:25 pm
Sean Duffy wants a seat in Congress, and he likes to throw axes. He’s good at it, too. If I lived in his Wisconsin district, I’d be tempted to give him my vote for that reason alone. Duffy ran another ax-themed ad earlier this fall: He’s the latest candidate to appeal to the bitter, gun- and ax-clinging electorate in a year when, no matter what President Obama and tea-party-bashing Democrats say, it’s cool to be redneck. Filed under: Hunting & Guns and News & Politics and Rednecks and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.21.10 by Danny Glover @ 11:05 pm
Casteel is the defensive coordinator for West Virginia University’s football team. He has been on the coaching staff since 2001 and has headed the defense since 2003. I was glad he didn’t flee in the middle of the night three years ago when Rich Rodriguez went to Michigan, and now Casteel is getting his due. He’s also getting it in the humble way I would expect from a Paden City boy:
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Posted on 10.11.10 by Danny Glover @ 12:52 pm
The race to replace West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd has taken center stage on the national political scene over the past week thanks to a series of campaign advertisements, both good and bad. The flurry of activity started with an ad released by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Called “Stop Obama,” the ad featured flannel-clad actors in worn baseball caps saying West Virginians should keep Democratic candidate Joe Manchin, the current governor, in West Virginia so he doesn’t become “Washington Joe” and rubber stamp President Obama’s agenda. The ad’s messaging and casting were brilliant, but the “casting call,” written by a consulting firm to the NRSC, was tone deaf. One five-letter word in the casting call that isn’t even a word — “hicky” — completely undermined the ad and forced the NRSC to pull it. The ad gave Manchin ammunition to blast Republican rival John Raese and his national GOP allies for embracing the stereotype of West Virginians as hicks. Coming soon after news broke that Raese’s family lives in a Florida mansion whose driveway is paved in marble, the ad amplified the Democratic narrative that Raese doesn’t understand or appreciate the hard-working folk in the blue-collar Mountain State. Manchin answered with his own ad over the weekend. “John Raese thinks we’re hicks,” the opening says as the NRSC ad plays in the background. “… It’s insulting — and he didn’t even apologize.” Had Manchin stopped at that line of attack, he might have scored a few points with fence-sitting voters in the race. But the ad closed with a juvenile potshot at Raese’s wife: “Raese’s wife is registered in Florida, so she can’t event vote for him.” Filed under: Hatin' On Rednecks and Hunting & Guns and News & Politics and People and Rednecks and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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