re: #42 Belafon

We just spent the last 4 days moving my son to Kentucky for grad school. Luckily, he’s in Lexington, right across the street from UK.

I’d love to go back to Lexington. Yes, I know that just about the time we were leaving Transylvania University was changing the name of a dorm named for Jefferson Davis at the same time someone was opening the Jefferson Davis Pub about a mile away.

I think I’ve told the story here before, but what the hell. One Saturday morning, as good members of the local food co-op, we signed up for roadside cleaning—basically, picking up thousands of cigarette butts on the side of the road. In two hours I had two people actively throw cigarette butts at me on a major road. Now, if you were to drive past the UK Hospital any hour of the day at that time, you’d see multiple people in wheel chairs hauling oxygen tanks (with nurses on break smoking alongside) smoking on the street.

That was before ACA and exchanges, I’m guessings that If they bothered to vote, they probably voted for Bevin.

I loved Kentucky and Lexington, but maybe the most self-defeating place I’ve lived.