Just saying is all

PFC Lynch has a brother in the service. Which means the Lynch family of Palestine, WV has contributed almost as many soldiers to the war against terror as did the Princeton class of 2002.

And another thing, that awful idea for a reality series-- the Real Beverly Hillbillies-- basically the producers are talking about dropping people like the Lynch family into a lala-land mansion so we can laugh at their attempts to cope.

The concept for this particular "reality" show is to find a rural Appalachian family of diminished economic means and send them to live in Beverly Hills for the amusement of a network television audience.

Cameras would record the poor "hick" family's every faux pas, their astonishment at modern appliances, their ignorance of even the most basic essentials, such as Guccis and Rolex watches.

"Imagine the episode where they have to interview maids," one CBS executive famously gloated.

Sometimes i miss Andy Jackson. He would have known how to deal with this executive.

But i will close with some words from Tom Wolfe.

In the Korean War there were 78 Medal of honor winners. 32 of them were from the South, and practically all of the 32 were from small towns in or near the Appalachians. The New York metropolitan area, which has more people than all these towns put together, had three Medal of Honor winners, and one of them had just moved to New York from the Appalachian region of West Virginia.