Urban Poverty Law Center

At the Urban Poverty Law Center we are looking for any sign of intelligent life inside the beltway. Our media researchers have our satellite receivers directed at Washington DC, and are trying to decipher if any of the transmissions over the airways have any meaning. A few of our interceptions follow: "We will default on our obligations unless congress raises the debt ceiling." Really means we will default later on our obligations which will be more unruly in a few years if congress continues to raise our debt ceiling. Time to take the hit now. Bitter medicine, but needs to be taken. "It is time for the rich to start paying their fair share of taxes." Because we, in Washington, DC, do not have the courage to pry that greasy, grimy, engorged governmental teat out of our friend's mouths, we would much rather anger the wealthiest 1% of our citizens, who have for the most part worked hard to earn over $250,000 a year, which after taxes affords these pampered workaho...

If any of you are professionals with MD, and or PhD degrees and you wish to hunt Elk, this letter from my father from August 1, 1991 is full of great advice on how to insure your success. I give you this from his typewriter to the blogosphere: August 1, 1991 Dear Jacky: As you two set off into the wilds in pursuit of the larger of our North American ruminants I wanted to offer some ruminations on the subject of elking, why hunters, even medical specialists and an author, can, on rare occasions--fail. First, the hunter has to be smarter than the elk. I have checked and have found according to experts that a top flight radiologist and a top flight emergency medicine specialist, combined, have about 1/2 percent the intelligence of the dimmest witted elk. This is daunting. So maybe you should think about what the army special forces call "performance enhancer." This is a pill that makes ordinary soldiers able to leap tall buildings (or at least so it seems to them at the time...

I opened another one of the letters my father wrote me, which, as you know were placed in a trunk by my mother and never seen by me until now. My father left mommy for a carnival stripper, Lulu, back in 1973 after I was mangled by the John Deere Manure Spreader. We were close, very close up until he left. Other letters are on this site dated 3/7/11,2/12/11 and 1/18/11. The letters to and from a son of a bitch are only for entertainment and contain a snap shot of what one man was enduring in America and what he was thinking. With that explanation to the reader, I give you this: My dear son: Another day in bedlam. I worked very late last night and wrote 1500 of the 2000 words required for Nashville Magazine by tomorrow. I was confronted on arising with a demand from Lulu that I call the Jaguar specialist in east Nashville immediately. After resisting I finally did call him. Bob Acuff is an honest mechanic and therefore not likely ever to prosper. He explained to me that Jaguars ...

Socialist, socialite, and now allegedly French sodomite, Monsieur Dominique Strauss-Kahn, president of the International Monetary Fund is accused of forcing his monetary policies on an unwilling world! The portly and ribald sexagenarian who was set to challenge France's President Sarkozy in the general election next year is instead spending time in a New York City holding pen after he was accused of forcing his sexual policies on a common chamber maid at one of New York's finest hotels. He has retained famed attorney, F. Lee Bailey, who in a statement to the press said that Mr. Strauss-Kahn is immune from prosecution as his position as leader of the International Monetary Fund allows him to screw anybody in the world with impunity. Mr. Bailey is sure the charges will be dropped by the Chamber Maid as soon as she is informed of the special importance of his client. In a press conference, Strauss-Kahn said he used a technique passed along to him by former President Clinton, ...

Been farming, tearing up 70 acres over on the Coxville, Tn farm as the rains have abated and the ground is drying out. I was over buying fuel, diesel for our big John Deere tractor and discussing our fuel problem with the owner of the BP fuel distributorship in Alamo, Tn. Our equipment is constantly clogging fuel filters and our big tractor will not run without missing and sputtering when the fuel level drops to a third of a tank of diesel. Mac Connally, said we were more than likely been buying biodiesel which has fallen in quality since animal fats have been added to the mix and the fuel will layer out with the lighter oils going to the top of the tank and then gelling with the least bit of cold weather added. He never carried the biodiesel for this reason. My pal J. Luckey who farms my mother's place in Cedar Grove, said he has a pile of filters bigger than a small elephant, all clogged by the stuff in biodiesel. He will no longer run his equipment on biodiesel. We also broke do...

It did not take President Barack Hussein Obama long to hop out of the punch bowl, towel off, and announce how he personally masterminded the killing of our greatest enemy since Uncle Audie. On the news of the end of the war on terror, TSA officials have agreed temporarily to stop groping super models and children at our nation's airports for one week. Metal markets hiccuped but will not be swayed by this fantastic dollar funded assassination. The dollar will continue to slide in value even if all foreign hostilities in the Middle East are stopped today. The Royal Saudi family declared free oil for the west tomorrow in celebration which caused a ripple in the oil trading markets until someone read the announcement carefully and determined it was only a play on the famous gag sign at the bar "free beer tomorrow". Colonel Gaddafi, has been in contact with me about my offer of sanctuary here in Cedar Grove, TN. Peace and prosperity are just around the corner. Bring our troops...

"I read the news today, Oh Boy. About a lucky man who made the grade, he blew his mind out in a car, he hadn't noticed that the lights had changed." The Beatles more or less I was into my mother's merkin drawer last night remembering her and watching the reruns of the Royal Wedding of Prince William Phillip Howard, Moe, Curly, Albert, Spike Lee to that vision of loveliness, now Duchess Catherine Middleton , when I had an epiphany. Since we left the Monarchy in 1776, we in America have had a void which is filled in England by the British Monarchy. Say what you will about that crazy bunch, but they have a place in their society and the Brits, as their subjects can point out with pride, enjoy a Monarchy steeped in a long tradition of being something special and bigger than the sum of its parts. The Monarchy represents life and the human spirit with everything that is both good and bad. From Henry the VIII with his penchant for lopping off heads, to the Goofy Prin...