More Stuff White Midwesterners Like: Mules.

You don't see them so much anymore, but back in the day every farm had a mule or three. However, our love of mule has endured here in the midwest. It's the official state animal in Missouri, the mascot for Central Missouri State University (or whatever in the hell they're callin' it these days) and the high school mascot in towns from Fairfield, Illinois to Bedford, Michigan to Poplar Bluff. Nowadays the Amtrak line from St. Louis to Kansas City is called the "Mule." And if you've never swallowed a Moscow Mule you're missing something. (Get your mind outta the gutter.) Just add vodka, lime juice and ginger Beer and serve it cold in a pewter mug. It's gooder'n hell, I'm telling ya.

White Midwesterner of the Week: That hot guy on Mad Men.

See photos of Jon

Oh sure, you thought that Don Draper guy on the teevee was a native of New York? Heck no that boy is from St. Louis, Missouri. He went to some fancy-pants high school in Ladue (where the money is) and even got an acting scholarship to go to Mizzou. (Brad Pitt went there too without an acting scholarship, but he seems to do OK.) But you know he's a White Midwesterner on account of the way he wears pleated khakis on the show, and I bet you a donut he's got a few pieces of Budweiser memorabilia at his house. You can take the boy outta St. Louis, but you can't take the St. Louis outta the boy.

If you'd like to nominate someone for WM of the WK, email us.

September 26, 2008

The Midwest is Red State Country Right?


Wrong.

If you take a look at the latest Real Clear Politics Electoral College Map you'll notice something about the Midwest - it's not as much "Red Country" as the national media would have you believe. Although there are a slew of White Midwesterners who claim to be Democrats, there's also a healthy chunk who are obviously not going to be voting for The Descendant of a White Midwesterners Who By The Way is A Senator From Illinois. Sure the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas are solidly in the McCain camp, and only Iowa and Illinois are solidly Obama's. But Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin are still toss up states.

Why?

White Midwesterners don't want to be rushed. What with our Consumer Reports and "Try it Before You Buy It" segments on local TV, White Midwesterners like to keep our options open. Maybe in the next 40 days Palin will grow a brain, or Obama will actually be able to articulate an idea without using the word "change." And then we'd have to go back and change our answer. White Midwesterners don't like to change our answers - it makes us look flaky.

In the meantime, we're keeping our options open.
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Anonymous said...

A more non partisan view of tax waste and corruption:

The Hiickman's Mill school board and Mayor Funk are ready to throw away A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS on a new, unimproved, and unneeded artsy fartsy ART FENCE around Ruskin High School.
So not Midwestern, but so Leno or Letterman........

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619.420.0209

October 21, 2008

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