Like The Dew - A journal of Southern culture and politics

Robbers, Bankers, Bandits, Kings

by Billy Howard | 1 | Feb 8

(a valentine of sorts)

Robbers lives are filled with naught

living on what others bought

sneaking in your house at night

and taking everything in sight.

Bankers make their wealth in loans

of which you pay them back with moans

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‘Maggie’s Farm’ (Rockin’ The White House, part 1)

by Jeff Cochran | 1 | Feb 8

Five presidential administrations later than we might have thought, Bob Dylan plays The White House on Wednesday, February 10.

It’s a great honor for Dylan, albeit long overdue. A White House gig seemed most likely during the Jimmy Carter Administration (1977-81). After all, Carter mentioned Dylan’s name often in his first presidential campaign.

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Southern Politics

Australia & the USA: are politicians different?

by Frank Povah | 3 | Feb 7

There are many similarities between my birth country, Australia, and the USA but there are also many differences, and they’re not always ... Read on →

Tea teed

by Ron Taylor | 4 | Feb 5

Former Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo kicked off this weekend's first-ever National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, by attacking the president ... Read on →

Don’t fly me to the moon

by Lee Leslie | 17 | Feb 1

The President’s budget for 2011 has been unveiled. What’s news is not what’s in it, but what’s not: $3.5 billion out of ... Read on →

Southern News

Whoa Dat!

by Ron Taylor | 2 | Feb 2

The National Football League is backpedaling on its threat to take legal action against New Orleans merchants using the "Who Dat" slogan on Saints souvenirs they sell. The ... Read on →

Raider Riley Rides Again

by Gita M. Smith | 6 | Jan 31

Alabama Gov. Robert Riley wants to shut down electronic gaming in the state. At his orders, state troopers have been making secret midnight and 2 a.m. raids on ... Read on →

Government of, by and for the people?

by Bill Semple | 10 | Jan 29

Massachusetts has the most expensive model of paying for health care that the world has to offer. It’s a model that preys on our genuine need for health ... Read on →

Southern Views

Dew tops 1,000

by LikeTheDew | 14 | Feb 7

This story is the 1,000th to appear on Like the Dew. Yes, this one — the one you are reading. Reaching this milestone was unthinkable a year ago. ... Read on →

Questions for the rationalists

by Austin McMurria | 4 | Feb 6

Why do so many members of a community swallow irrational beliefs? How does dogma prevail so often untested? Corruption, perhaps? Paid for and promulgated by special interests? Are the intermediaries to ... Read on →

What’s up with the hate?

by Juli Ward | 14 | Feb 6

Okay, so I have no political affiliation. I am not feeling any of those fools personally. But I do know from studying history that government in at least ... Read on →

Southern Life

What’s a Pinball Wizard?

by Mike Cox | 0 | Feb 8

Satisfaction isn’t my favorite Rolling Stones song. I liked Last Time and Brown Sugar much better. But Satisfaction may be the most popular song by the greatest rock band of all time. It continues to receive ... Read on →

And He Scores!

by Mark Johnson | 3 | Feb 4

I have pulled a muscle swinging a stick around the living room. No, I wasn’t chasing the dog because he had borrowed the car keys without permission. No, there are no flying squirrels in the house. No, ... Read on →

My favorite Atlanta poem was written by an Irishman

by Keith Graham | 10 | Feb 4

On a flight into Atlanta a few years ago — a journey I had made many times — I sat next to a young man from Dublin, who was on his first trip to the U.S. ... Read on →

Southern Food & Drink

A survival recipe for Valentine’s Day

by Lee Leslie | 6 | Feb 6

Mostly for the guys... Like the other major holidays, pretending is critical to the success of Valentine’s. On Christmas, we must believe in Santa and that they’ve been good. On Easter, that the ... Read on →

Now, that’s a birthday cake!

by Mimi Skelton | 2 | Jan 31

St. Simons Island, Ga. — I was invited to my friend, Buck’s, birthday party at the Bowlerena in Brunswick yesterday. I don’t know how old Buck is, but that doesn’t matter. We all met ... Read on →

Southern Sounds & Scenes

One word is worth a thousand pictures

by Piney Woods Pete | 3 | Feb 6

The man had but one word - "Faith" - fixed on the church signboard as he perched near the top of his stepladder fumbling through a stack of plastic letters, ... Read on →

Professions in a Time of Change

by Mike Copeland | 0 | Feb 4

For a long time I have been suggesting to anyone who will listen, or read, that the current world economic situation is due as much to technology impacts on the ... Read on →

Southern Portraits

Socialism and public health: a hug for an ordinary couple

by Frank Povah | 0 | Feb 4

Our family was pretty nomadic. Dad always thought that if he upped stumps and moved somewhere else, life would improve for him. Maybe he ... Read on →

The Good Old Days

by Raymond L. Atkins | 7 | Feb 1

Sometime after the arrival of your fifth decade, there will come a morning when you wake up and realize that you can now remember ... Read on →

Dew Reviews

A road trip to Allman country

by Phil Gast | 7 | Feb 3

Don’t ask me why I thought of Duane Allman in the predawn hours of a rainy Groundhog Day. I don’t know. I awoke Tuesday to the patter of a light rain outside the window. That sound ... Read on →

On Finding Salinger

by Will Cantrell | 6 | Feb 3

Until his press agent announced his death a few days ago, I‘d thought little about J.D. Salinger these last years. I suspect you hadn’t either. He’d slipped to a distant corner of my ... Read on →