Captain Plaid, an especially surly and snarky Scot from the East Alabama Highlands, takes on the Big Mules of the Yellowhammer State. Ventures beyond the borderlands, across the river to the East most frequently, will also be necessary. From Goat Hill to The ATL to The Smokies to the Gulf Coast, it's Peace ... or War!
Be sure to drop by the Alabama Poverty Project. Some good folks are involved in this effort so I'm sending you to the "About" page first. Wayne Flynt is a truly grand man and his pastor at Auburn First Baptist James Evans is also involved in the effort. The Education and Poverty Facts are especially relevant for my present teaching efforts across the river in Georgia. Peace ... or War!
Educated at tolerable public schools and the finest non-ABA accredited yet Church of Christ affiliated part-time/night law school in the entire state of Alabama, I've managed to play lawyer, teacher, student, farm hand, activist/organizer, infantry soldier ... A recovering Southern Baptist, I'm almost a Buddhist Cowboy these days although a variant of Vonnegut's Bokononism might work. My dog tags read Unitarian Universalist. I suppose secular humanist might work as well as anything. Running from the law for nine plus years, I first did GTA work at Auburn and then spent the next five years with hormonal teenagers. Supressing my Scots enough to not strangle any kids, and indeed I learned much about patience and kindness, I taught various Social Studies preps in west Georgia public schools. Frustrated with bumbling bureaucrats and pushover parents and ..., plus knowing the 2006 elections were critical, I set aside the chalk to work a Congressional campaign. Enlisting at the seasoned age of 41 in the summer of 2007, I'm now ...
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