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sniff.

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This is true. Lancaster county is populated by more than just the Amish. There are plenty of the English (as they call us) living there. It's also about 45 miles from Philadelphia, and Lancaster would prefer to be more aligned with that city than, say, Harrisburg, which is the same distance away. I mean, it has its share of rednecks and bigots, just like the rest of PA (and God knows, there are plenty of rednecks and bigots in Central PA I grew up around those assholes). But I spent a fair amount of time in Lancaster when I still lived in PA, and I consider it a pretty good place overall.

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At least it gives us Texans a bit of a breather before we get back to being 'shittiest state.'

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I've been too busy warring on Christmas clearance sales. Seriously, it's like a free for all out there.

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Oh, he is a total racist, and sexist, and even anti-semitic asshole. Source: everyone who's ever worked with him. An arrogant dick, too, who watched Johnny Carson and thought, "that looks easy, I'll do it, I'll just wing it," and literally then had a couple of weeks of the Worst Talk Show ever to exist before it was mercifully put out of its misery. No one would come on the show, and the semi-celebs he could muster sat in sort of mute astonishment as he failed to have questions or even the ability to muster up conversation. It was painful! And also delightful schadenfreude.

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We ended up having to send our troubled teenage son to a wilderness program and then a therapeutic boarding school, both in Utah, both run by LDS folks, and, same thing, these were people who really understood the actual precepts of their religion and were some of the most truly loving, caring, understanding people I've ever met. Really changed my mind about the Mormons. (Also, about Utah--it is GORGEOUS!)

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The lack of electricity has certainly put the Amish at a disadvantage at determining what's truly important in this country.

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Their lack of electricity prevents the Amish from getting the message about the true meaning of Christianity.

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I got a bottle of Jack Daniels. It was just the right size and just the right color.

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Not everyone. If North Korea nukes Japan, no one will be talking about the Trump Foundation.

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You left out dick jokes. I think the dick jokes have something to do with it, too.

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No le bastardes carborundorum.

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Dusty over there? Certainly dusty over here.

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/brings AED

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Went into battle. Saw, Conquered, Survived.

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Closer to home, I read stories of refugees volunteering at food banks and soup kitchens in between job-hunting and English lessons just so they can give back to the communities that took them in. They're not the ones that stir up shit and cause trouble.

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