Comments on Lone Prairie Blog: The unfamiliar is familiar.

I find it interesting that the author of the origi...

2007-04-09T20:09:00.000-05:00

I find it interesting that the author of the original article didn't actually talk to any of these strange people who seemed to hate him so much. Or talk to any officials in the small towns that he concludes are dying.
He also neglected to visit any of the small towns in the Texas Panhandle that are thriving, or the two big cities (Amarillo and Lubbock) that are bigger than ever.
I

Me and a friend of mine once conducted an accident...

2007-04-09T18:09:00.000-05:00

Me and a friend of mine once conducted an accidental social experiment along these lines.

We were both writers, about to appear in a movie and had to shave our heads in order to play our parts. Since we would both be bald in a few days anyway, we decided just for the fun of it to give ourselves mowhawks. So we got up early on Sunday morning, made an impromptu ceremony of shaving each

As a former member of the NYPD, who's still in NY ...

2007-04-09T17:53:00.000-05:00

As a former member of the NYPD, who's still in NY I laughed my butt off when I read that city people don't look down at people from the country. I've lost girlfriends due to the attitude they have with anyone not from "the city" or Europe. They are the saddest hypocrites in the world-when they charge that folks from rural areas are prejuidice.

I think Ventura might be suffering from a little c...

2007-04-09T13:58:00.000-05:00

I think Ventura might be suffering from a little culture shock.

In a dense urban environment, paying attention to a complete stranger is regarded as a threatening act. People must pass through the immediate proximity of hundreds if not thousands of people every day. They simply ignore the vast majority of people they pass by. When somebody doesn't ignore somebody it means something.

Dan Edelen makes a good point. And as I have said,...

2007-04-06T22:43:00.000-05:00

Dan Edelen makes a good point. And as I have said, Dreher occasionally makes them as well.

Here in Land-In-Between, where I am, things were becoming Aspenized. I keep wondering where all the rich people are coming from to buy up the oversized McMansions they're building here in Coeur d'Alene. The median price of a home is already out-of-reach of the average pay in this region. It

Julie,First-time poster and reader.I live in a rur...

2007-04-06T19:40:00.000-05:00

Julie,

First-time poster and reader.

I live in a rural area 45 miles outside Cincinnati. I've lived in the suburbs, and lived in the city. I know the differences between all three.

Our small church welcomes everyone. Doesn't matter where they come from or how much money they make (or don't). We're conservative in that same way Dreher is. We don't want to see the best

Greetings.Thanks for the side light on Dreher's ar...

2007-04-06T09:58:00.000-05:00

Greetings.

Thanks for the side light on Dreher's article.

Rod Dreher is genial and chatty, which is why I continue to enjoy reading his blog. Occasionally, he'll make a good point. Occasionally.

However, Mr. Dreher also can be ridiculously inconsistent, and silly, and snobbish, and even hypocritical and pretentious. He fancies himself an astute "Crunchy-Con" observer of