Thank you! It's a wonderful book, and he's an incredible man. I'm proud to know Mr. Meredith.

Hey, anonymous. I see you posting all over the place. You get around. As for police, no, I've long been fairly confident that anyone was going to invade my home, it would probably be police officers. Or at least I thought that when Melton was still alive. Fortunately, most of those guys no longer carry a badge, at least for the JPD.

As for the hysteria over "automatic" weapon, I'm going to be honest and admit that I don't see much of a difference between "semi-automatic" and "automatic" when you're talking about buying them at Walmart. Maybe we'll just calling them **Guns Designed to Make It Damn Easy to Kill People** on every reference. We've also fought over the phrase "assault weapon" on the site; warning: we tend to go with the definition thats was in the assault weapons ban.

I'll let NaIve deal with the language in his blog post as he wishes.

The true gun nuts, who I find to be incredible bores (boors?), look for any slight to their self-proclaimed right to own and stockpile any weapon they want. So he must have thought your flippant post was yet another attack on his God-given right to ... well, you know.

Yawwwnnnnn.

Whoops. Methinks R.L. hurt happyjack's feelings.

I love the folks who never have anything to say except about guns.

Verbatim from JSU campus: There are only 11 days left to register to vote in Mississippi if you want to participate in the November 6 elections, and the Margaret Walker Center Advisory Board will be redoubling its efforts over the next two weeks to help anyone who wants to register to vote.

This extra push will officially begin tomorrow, September 25, at 2 p.m. in Ayer Hall.

Please make plans to attend tomorrow and volunteer over the next two weeks as we encourage the members of our community to be informed and engaged citizens.

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Margaret Walker Center
1400 John R. Lynch Street
Ayer Hall
P O Box 17008
Jackson, MS 39217
601-979-3935 (office)
601-979-5929 (fax)
www.jsums.edu/margaretwalker

Deuce is STILL a wild cat. Maybe worse. We keep telling him it's because his mama was a carny who lived with JoAnne. Nuff said. We don't call him Deucy Prichard for nothing.

The original opening paragraph of the above story is confusing in the print edition; it has been reworked above. We apologize for the error.

The above story was corrected since the print edition. The "Snapshot of Hinds County" chart mistakenly said "Snapshot of Metro" in the paper. We apologize for the error.

Ha! You must mean mean Deuce. He eventually got too loud for the office, and we had to leave him at home. He's still a demon and harasses Willie and Eddie.

BTW, another amusing thing: We have a cat named after the King Edward and another after Deuce McAllister. I told David Watkins once that our next cat should be "David Watkins," and he looked at me like I'd lost my mind.

That's terrible. Thanks for the update, Brian. As much as we miss you here, your job as a science editor suits you.