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Stories Carved from Appalachia's Dark Hollows

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- [New-Essays](https://genescottbooks.com/new-essays/): Essays Two Flags, Same Wind Whenever I meet someone down and out, I remind myself that I don’t know their story. The kid covered in tattoos sporting green-spiked-rooster hair was raped by two men in his neighborhood when he was eight. Didn’t tell his dad Read More » Jubilant Feet They know the average American
- [Jubilant Feet](https://genescottbooks.com/jubilant-feet/): They know the average American is a friendly, open-minded, live-and-let-live individual who’s aware the whole country was built on the backs of immigrants — our ancestors. Whether they came from Scotland, the Amazon, or Zimbabwe.
- [Two Flags, Same Wind](https://genescottbooks.com/two-flags-same-wind/): Whenever I meet someone down and out, I remind myself that I don’t know their story. The kid covered in tattoos sporting green-spiked-rooster hair was raped by two men in his neighborhood when he was eight. Didn’t tell his dad because he’d shoot the perps on the spot. The guy serving life only cracked his father-in-law over the head with a baseball bat after watching him assault, rape, and beat his mom for a decade. You learn this by serving in a prison ministry, and I taught creative writing to lifers for a decade.
- [The Long Loop:  Day Two (Danville, Ky to Vincennes, In)](https://genescottbooks.com/the-long-loop-day-two-danville-ky-to-vincennes-in/): Eric is a GPS guru and he found a great ride through southwest Indiana, which turned out to be as twisty as any road in East Tennessee. Here's a topographic map of the area so you can see it's not cornfields and telephone poles, the way I think of Indiana.
- [The Long Loop:  Day One (Johnson City to Danville, Kentucy)](https://genescottbooks.com/johnson-city-to-danville/): “We stopped for a rest break at the Cumberland Gap and found a reminder that history rarely settles cleanly. For twenty-seven years Kentucky and Tennessee argued over where one state ended and the other began. Near these mountains, Meriwether Lewis raised a sextant to the sky and discovered the line had been misplaced by nearly ten miles. In Appalachia, even the borders carried uncertainty.”
- [The Long Loop:   Day Zero](https://genescottbooks.com/the-long-loop-day-zero/): In Search of Real America 5-15-26I’m turning seventy in July.Time to celebrate!At fifty in 2006, I threw a party down on the banks of the Nolichucky River, two bands blasting away, friends and family in lawn chairs enjoying the picnic and camaraderie.But that venue was wiped off the map during Hurricane Helene. Gone. Many of
- [Oats in the Manure](https://genescottbooks.com/oats-in-the-manure/): Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly. -- Proverbs 26:11
- [Caged](https://genescottbooks.com/caged/): Caged: The Saddest Man Alive Has everything. Enjoys nothing. I wrote a song about him and handed it to a woman to sing. Not a man. Not me. A woman. The song is a verdict and she delivers it. Weathered alto, Bonnie Raitt phrasing, Ruthie Foster gravity. She sits down, resonator in open-G, and the
- [Drunk Sheep](https://genescottbooks.com/drunk-sheep/): Drunk Sheep by Gene Scott The sheep don't know they're sheep. There's a cup being passed around this country. It's been circulating so long that people stopped wondering what's in it. They just know it's theirs. Their color. Their side of the table. You take it because a man on a stage looked straight at
- [The Dope Versus the Pope](https://genescottbooks.com/the-dope-versus-the-pope/): A talking blues track born of idiocy versus strength. Some days you have a song before you finish your coffee. Today, I picked up the paper, and there was the president sharing a meme of himself as Jesus Christ. Not the suffering Christ. Not the cross. The
- [The Gospel of Carnage](https://genescottbooks.com/the-gospel-of-carnage/): THE GOSPEL OF CARNAGE Gene Scott / Jellybeaners This article explores the connection between the Crusades, Christian nationalism, and modern political rhetoric. Through historical analysis and cultural critique, “The Gospel of Carnage” examines how religious language continues to shape war, power, and identity today. From the Crusades to Modern Christian Nationalism He has it tattooed
- [Zero for Ten: The Biblical Scorecard on President Draft-Dodger](https://genescottbooks.com/zero-for-ten-the-biblical-scorecard-on-president-draft-dodger/): The man you vote for, measured by the book you swear by. State Senator Rusty Crowe posted this week that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of this nation’s Christian values and the best example we can lift up for our children. He’s right. They are. So let’s apply them—one by one—to the man Senator Crowe votes for. Thou
- [Fertilizer Blues](https://genescottbooks.com/fertilizer-blues/): How Rising Fertilizer Costs Are Forcing Farmers Like Jolene Riessen to Lose Generational Land Jolene Riessen checks corn prices six times a day. Sometimes that isn’t enough. She farms 530 acres in Iowa that her family has worked for 85 years. Up four cents at two o’clock, down two cents at closing. This spring she
- [Oil Shock – The Story Behind the Song](https://genescottbooks.com/oil-shock-the-story-behind-the-song/): The numbers climb. The distance shrinks. You start measuring everything against what’s left. “Oil Shock” traces the quiet pressure that changes decisions long before anything breaks.
- [We're Making Enemies We'll Fight for Forty Years](https://genescottbooks.com/were-making-enemies-well-fight-for-forty-years/): How a Draft Dodger Builds the Next Generation of Enemies On a tenant farm in Illinois you learn early that the man with the deed makes the decisions and the people who work the ground pay the price. My father never had to explain that. He just went quiet — when the landlord drove past,
- [Dark Connector](https://genescottbooks.com/dark-connector/): By Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them Jacob Weisberg wrote in the New York Times: every society that splits its public standards from its private life grows someone to manage the gap. He named them dark connectors — Epstein, Cohn, Rasputin — fixers who move powerful men between obligation and appetite without friction. The type
- [Total Obliteration](https://genescottbooks.com/total-obliteration/): The Space Between What’s Declared and What Remains A leader steps to the podium. He says the word “obliterated.” He’s never seen what that word looks like on the ground. The cameras take it. The headlines run it. Everybody moves on. But beneath the concrete, the centrifuges are still spinning. The craters missed what was A novelist reflects on truth, propaganda, and power through his folk rock song “Total Obliteration,” a story about lies that echo beyond the headlines.
- [Don't Know How Long I'll Be Around](https://genescottbooks.com/dont-know-how-long-ill-be-around/): An old orange politician recently said, “I don’t know how long I’ll be around.” Neither do you.Neither do I. At midnight the house settles. Moonlight slips through a torn blind. A crack runs the length of the ceiling. Downstairs, the TV hums. A red line crawls across the screen. Same suit. Same stare. Same warning.
- [An Open Letter to The State of Tennessee](https://genescottbooks.com/an-open-letter-to-tennessee/): We’re All Paying the Economic Price of Christian Nationalism Michael “Gene” ScottJanuary 16, 2026 I live in Johnson City, Tennessee. Our State Senator is Rusty Crowe.Seventy-seven years old.First elected in 1990.One of the longest-serving legislators in Tennessee history. If you’ve seen him lately, you can see the wear.He shuffles down the street, head bent, eyes
- [Famous People I Almost Met](https://genescottbooks.com/famous-people-i-almost-met/): When I was twenty-three, I found myself unemployed and living in my girlfriend’s room in her parents’ beautiful brick home on the South Side of Chicago — an affluent white neighborhood slipping into descent after the M.L.K. riots of 1968. They kept me upstairs in her room and visible, with my girlfriend sadly relegated to
- [What Am I For?](https://genescottbooks.com/what-am-i-for/): 🎵 What Am I For? A song about losing the work—and finding what’s left. We're all sinking in private.The door doesn’t open anymore.No one tells you why.The emails slow.Meeting invites dry up.Your badge still works, but every room feels like it’s no longer yours.You're on a list somewhere—bench, redundant, transitioning—words that mean gone, but no
- [37 Dolls](https://genescottbooks.com/37-dolls/): He counts toys. We count crimes. Michael “Gene” ScottDecember 26, 2025 🧸 Where Did All Those Children Go?“Tell me who’s been playing with the thirty-seven dolls…” They want us to forget.The planes.The flight logs.Men with their arms around girls who couldn’t drive, couldn’t vote, couldn’t escape. We know what happened on that island. Jeffrey didn’t
- [The Clouds Beneath His Feet](https://genescottbooks.com/the-clouds-beneath-his-feet/): A Christmas Song of Hope Michael “Gene” ScottDec 25, 2025 May you and yours have a peaceful, restoring day with friends and family. I wrote this song for the One we celebrate today. Enjoy! 🎧 Listen: The Clouds Beneath His Feet Verse 1 The sky turns heavy,the storm draws near.The weight that I carryis more than
- [Servile No More](https://genescottbooks.com/servile-no-more/): For the Ones Who Wouldn’t Shut Up This isn’t music.It’s what I should’ve screamed. At the meeting.At the protest.At the funeral.When silence felt like survival —but turned out to be surrender. “Servile No More” is what happens when you run out of apologies.When you realize silence isn’t neutral.It’s complicity — with comfort, with power, with
- [Snowflakes Left and Right](https://genescottbooks.com/snowflakes-left-and-right/): Wussies on both sides of the political spectrum actually fuel the culture wars ... Michael "Gene" Scott Oct 31, 2025 🎸 “Snowflakes Left and Right” — A Country Song for a Canceled Nation This ain’t for the keyboard warriors.It ain’t for the slogan slingers.It’s for the folks in the middle —flipping pancakes, minding their business, muting both
- [Quiet, Piggy!](https://genescottbooks.com/quiet-piggy/): Smart women infuriate the president. Had he lost to a smart black woman, he’d probably be living in a Saudi Arabian pedo-hut with his butt-slapping rich degenerate Aye Rabb buddies.
- [“Things Happen” and the Art of Forgetting](https://genescottbooks.com/things-happen-and-the-art-of-forgetting/): They killed Jamal Khashoggi for his voice. This song is about our silence. Two days ago, in the Oval Office, a reporter asked President Trump about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The crown prince accused of ordering the killing sat beside him. Trump’s answer: “Whether you liked him or didn’t like him, things happen.” That might
- [Piggy Is as Piggy Does](https://genescottbooks.com/piggy-is-as-piggy-does/): Fluorescent lights. She said what he did. No tears. Voice flat. That’s how women testify. Hold still. Save the shaking for the car, the shower, 3 a.m. Twelve strangers. Eighty-three million. Wrote this in one sitting. Didn’t revise. She didn’t get to revise. Said it plain. Waited. They believed her. Verse 1 She stood in
- [Shill-Billy](https://genescottbooks.com/shill-billy/): Outlaw Country for Folks Who Don’t Kiss the Ring Happy Thanksgiving! We are blessed beyond belief. America. If you’ve travelled, you know. After a month in Bangladesh in ‘99, I kissed the tarmac on my return. There’s no place like our nation when it comes to opportunity.But we still have turds in the punch bowl.Only one
- [Empty Chair](https://genescottbooks.com/empty-chair/): The picture tells the tale ... Empty Chair Verse 1He stood like the lights were too brightArms down and his face turned to stoneHe didn’t blink once in the silenceLike a man who forgot his way home Verse 2His thumb made a circle on skinLike he was winding a watch that had stoppedThe folks in
- [Kill Them All](https://genescottbooks.com/kill-them-all/): [Verse 1]Eleven strangers on a boat off Trinidad at dawnA missile from a cloudless sky and then another oneTwo men in the water reaching for the sunSomeone gave the order don't leave anyone [Chorus] Why didn't they just board the boat Why didn't they just ask their names [Verse 2]Alejandro Carranza left Santa Marta at
- [Trumplicans](https://genescottbooks.com/trumplicans/): Waitin’ on a savior out of gas. The song's not about the man at the podium. It's about the people in the lot. The sixty-year-old who mortgaged the house. The red hats. The Rumble clips on loop. What happens when the band stops playing and nobody planned for that. [Intro] [Verse] Steaks bust. Ties cut.
- [The Line We Swore](https://genescottbooks.com/the-line-we-swore/): A song about what we did. What we chose. Michael "Gene" Scott · Dec 04, 2025 Men in the water. Hands raised. One still clutching a plastic jug to stay afloat. A sinking boat off the coast of Yemen. Drone footage, grainy and time-stamped. Then a voice crackles over the radio: circle back. Finish it.
- [Commander-in-Sleep](https://genescottbooks.com/commander-in-sleep/): The Foolish Drooler Declares Your Grocery Bill a Hoax ... We keep electing grandpas who should be fishing or golfing, their caddies dropping balls next to the pins. But what do we have instead? Briefings slept through. Aides running the show. A brain-paralyzed figurehead squinting at the teleprompter, head nodding. Phil Ochs wrote “I Ain’t Marching
- [Boss of the Bunker](https://genescottbooks.com/boss-of-the-bunker/): A demented soul lost in an echo chamber ... Boss of the Bunker is a protest song about what happens when people trade thought for loyalty. It’s slow and sharp, built on country bones and Southern dirt. It doesn’t preach—it remembers. The man in the bunker isn’t the only one under fire. It’s also about
- [Incense for the Machine God](https://genescottbooks.com/incense-for-the-machine-god/): The lamb was slaughtered; the wolf survived. I wrote "Machine God" because silence felt like agreement. I grew up in the ’60s, when faith still felt like comfort—when church meant potlucks, not politics. Back then, Scripture lived in our songs and stories, not in soundbites on campaign ads. But somewhere along the way, I watched
- [Dozer](https://genescottbooks.com/dozer/): – The Nap Strikes Back (VERSE 1) He used to bark from a TV stage, "Sleepy Joe’s too old for the age!" Mocked the man for a softer tone, Said, "That guy should head back home." Crowds went wild, he wore that grin, Like irony would never set in… But turns out fate can read
- [Burger King](https://genescottbooks.com/burger-king/): Will the Fat Lady Sing? Slid into town with a Bible and grin Sold us hope in a four-year spin Said he’d fix what the rich had burned Then Grabbed the gold while his voters squirmed [Pre-Chorus 1] Built his throne on debt and lies Plastic crown, brain-dead eyes Promised steak, served up lies Now
- [The Hoax is Him](https://genescottbooks.com/the-hoax-is-him/): Rent or Food, We Have to Choose Jane reads the letter by the stove Nine hundred dollars she ain’t got That’s rent or food — she has to choose Kids eating noodles from the pot She counts the years since things went wrong Laughs once and swallows back the sound The noise a house makes
- [The Inheritance](https://genescottbooks.com/the-inheritance/): A girl stands quiet at the gate.She's learned to wait, and wait, and wait. An American Reckoning Verse 1 – The Builders They built a house and called it right.Said work would save. Locked it tight.They prayed, they fought, they raised a flag—Then left it folded in a bag.They gave us rules without a name.They
- [I Know Nothing](https://genescottbooks.com/i-know-nothing/): From Sitcom Laughs to Governing Strategy "I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!" Sergeant Hans Schultz, the bumbling guard at Stalag 13 in Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971), turned willful ignorance into comedy. Every week, he'd stumble onto evidence of sabotage—tunnels, radios, escaping POWs—and shut down. Not his problem. Didn't see it. Knows nothing. Funny
- [A Sickness in His Soul](https://genescottbooks.com/a-sickness-in-his-soul/): Two men. One washed beggars’ feet. The other gold-plates toilets. (Listen while reading) Jesus walked into leper colonies. Trump won’t shake hands without sanitizer. Christ broke bread with prostitutes and tax collectors. Trump dines with billionaires at Mar-a-Lago. Bills the Secret Service for protecting him. The Nazarene owned one robe. Trump owns suits cut to
- [The People Trump Left to Die](https://genescottbooks.com/the-people-trump-left-to-die/): How the Big Beautiful Bill Gutted Rural America By Michael "Gene" Scott December 23, 2025 2027: Sarah Can’t Find a Doctor Tuesday morning, rural Kansas. Sarah Henderson is making the drive. Again. Two and a half hours each way to Kansas City—the closest doctor who takes her insurance. Well, took her insurance. After Medicaid work
- [It's a War from Within](https://genescottbooks.com/its-a-war-from-within/): When Your Hometown Becomes the Training Ground: A Song for October 2025 On October 1, 2025, President Trump stood before hundreds of military commanders at Quantico and declared that American cities would become the "training grounds" for future wars. Not Warsaw. Not contested borders where Russian drones violate NATO airspace. But Chicago. Portland. New York.
- [Small Fearful Men](https://genescottbooks.com/small-fearful-men/): You can’t build a country on the backs of small pitiful men. 🎵 Small Fearful Men Style: Country Noir, Haunting, Sorrowful, PoliticalTempo: 75 BPMKey: F♯ minorInstrumentation: Acoustic guitar, slide guitarVocal: Deep, low male voice Vocal: female voice [Verse 1] They built their rule on silenceAnd lies they sold as truthThey stacked the courts with loyal menAnd fed the kids their fear They
- [Hegseth Is an Idiot](https://genescottbooks.com/hegseth-is-an-idiot/): Here's the Proof The Quote: “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’” —Pete Hegseth The Reality: Every major American military victory in the last century depended on one principle: stop excluding talent based on who people are, and start using them based on what they can do. Call it diversity.
- [Two Ways to Get Assassinated in America](https://genescottbooks.com/two-ways-to-get-assassinated-in-america/): Preach Love. Or Preach Hate. What history teaches us about how radical love and radical hate both provoke violence—but only one path leaves a legacy worth preserving History reveals an uncomfortable pattern: those who fundamentally challenge existing power structures rarely die peacefully in their beds. Whether that challenge comes through radical love or industrialized hate,
- [Trumple-Thin-Skin](https://genescottbooks.com/trumple-thin-skin/): The Ghost of Ronald Reagan Has Filled the President's Pants ... I woke up this morning to this headline: President Trump has terminated all trade negotiations with Canada, citing a video ad paid for by Ontario that featured former President Ronald Reagan speaking out against tariffs. The ad — a clip from a 1987 speech —
- [Submissive Stephen](https://genescottbooks.com/submissive-stephen/): Bravest He Gets is a Tweet in His Bed “Submissive Stephen” starts with a man at 2:00 a.m.—all-caps fury, fingers flying like bayonets, a digital warrior storming invisible gates. But come daylight, he’s a statue in the boardroom: eyes down, hands folded, waiting for clearance to breathe. Verse 1 Santa Monica brat with a clipboard
- [The Choirboy's Secret](https://genescottbooks.com/the-choirboys-secret/): How Republican “Family Values” Became a Shield for Scandal A documented pattern of hypocrisy — from hush money to handcuffs. Disclaimer: This article is based on publicly available court documents, government records, and major news reports. All factual claims are cited below. Case Studies in Contradiction 1. Dennis Hastert Speaker of the House (1999–2007) In
- [Never the Guns!](https://genescottbooks.com/never-the-guns/): A Protest Song for the American Contradiction We live in a country that counts painkillers like confessions and tracks prescriptions like parole violations—while AR-15s move table to table at weekend gun shows, no questions, no receipts. A woman’s medicine cabinet draws more scrutiny than a man’s basement arsenal. Lawmakers draft laws for embryos while children
- [Felon 47: Joke-in-Chief](https://genescottbooks.com/felon-47-joke-in-chief/): “Spray-Tan Soul, Panic Stare” isn’t subtle—and it’s not meant to be. This track plays like a lyrical bodycam: raw, unflinching, fully loaded—hush money, mugshots, stolen docs, tantrums on tape. Every bar stacks receipts, grilling a man who confuses spectacle for strength. Felon 47 takes center stage, spiraling through rhyme like a trending meltdown. This isn’t
- [The Lickspittle Parade](https://genescottbooks.com/the-lickspittle-parade/): When politics licks boots instead of leading, satire is the only weapon left. Washington is theater, not governance, where loyalty outweighs law and sycophants replace leaders. Lickspittle Parade is a chant-driven indictment of cowards and cronies who’ve traded spine for spotlight — a mirror to the parade stomping through today’s headlines. Tongues polished, boots shine
- [The Have Nots Versus the Have Yachts](https://genescottbooks.com/the-have-nots-versus-the-have-yachts/): Eviction taped to the door, bills on the windshield. Three jobs, still short on first and last. This is what inequality sounds like—not numbers, but the kind of exhaustion that works through fevers because sick days don't exist. They write off yachts; we pawn wedding rings. They buy senators; we buy time. No buzzwords here,
- [Malice Toward All, Charity for None](https://genescottbooks.com/malice-toward-all-charity-for-none/): This song started with a question I couldn’t shake: What would Lincoln think if he saw America today? Malice Toward All, Charity for None turns one of his best-known lines inside out. I pictured him not as a statue or a speech, but as a man—alive again, watching the country he died for fall back
- [A Prayer for Our Times](https://genescottbooks.com/a-prayer-for-our-times/): Remind us that our true citizenship is in a kingdom the world cannot see. First United Methodist Church (Johnson City, Tennessee) is blessed with three ministers carrying individual skills that blanket the needs of our congregation. From kids’ sermons to elder care, they cover all the bases using an entourage of support from a wonderful
- [The Real Crime Wave](https://genescottbooks.com/the-real-crime-wave/): Don't Believe You're Lying Eyes! When it comes to reading comprehension, context is key. But what happens when the context is curated? Cropped?Controlled? Long before George Floyd's final breath was stolen under a knee, the evening news had already been playing the preview for decades. White cops. Brown necks. Black faces. But you never saw
- [Look Into Their Faces](https://genescottbooks.com/look-into-their-faces/): For the Kids Who Can't Punch Back RFK Jr. is selling salvation with the track marks still visible under his sleeves. The hardest part wasn’t writing it. It was deciding whether a song about a recovering addict turned medical messiah, selling paranoia to scared parents, was punching down—or punching exactly where it needs to. I
- [The Law Don't Live Here Any More](https://genescottbooks.com/the-law-dont-live-here-any-more/): A protest song for a broken system... Don’t know about you, but I’m about fed up with this blatant authoritarian blitzkrieg. Writing songs about it is just the first step. The real goal? Join the march, remove the roadblocks to our dwindling freedom, and fight until democracy is reborn. Let’s stay fired up until our When justice dies, music speaks. A gritty, truth-telling protest anthem calling out corruption, decay, and the ghosts inside the courthouse walls.
- [What Would You Call It?](https://genescottbooks.com/what-would-you-call-it/): It’s not the past. It’s the present. There's a particular kind of blindness that comes from being too close to the threat—a refusal to see the monster when it wears your neighbor's face instead of a foreign uniform. What Would You Call It? was born from watching the unthinkable become normal: book bans, jackboots, silence. We call
- [Temu Hitler](https://genescottbooks.com/temu-hitler/): "Temu Hitler" is a protest song built from anger, memory, and truth. It names what most try to soften: a system that redraws maps to erase people, that silences votes with legal language and polite fraud. These verses come from real places—neighborhoods gutted by gerrymandering, polling places quietly closed, futures delayed without explanation. It’s not A powerful protest anthem visualized: a massive crowd of diverse people march at night, fists raised and glowing ballots held high, as red map lines crack in the sky and murals of broken chains and shattered thrones mark the city walls. A gritty, cinematic hip-hop album cover style capturing rebellion, unity, and the fight against voter suppression.
- [Aging Hippy Saviors!](https://genescottbooks.com/aging-hippy-saviors/): When Stephen Miller sneered at protesters in Washington, D.C.—mocking them as “elderly white hippies” who “need to go home and take a nap”—he meant to dismiss them. Instead, he gave them a spotlight. At Union Station, chants of “Free D.C.!” and “Nazis!” echoed so loudly that Miller and JD Vance were drowned out, their visit
- [Absolutely!](https://genescottbooks.com/8426-2/): We're drowning in ABSOLUTELYs. Forty-seven times in one day. I counted. That's either a linguistic epidemic or we've all joined the same cult. My new song "ABSOLUTELY!" is a Randy Newman-style piano tantrum about how ordering water now gets the same theatrical enthusiasm as a marriage proposal. We're giving "110%," calling breadsticks "life-changing," and cashiers A satirical piano pop breakdown of our obsession with “ABSOLUTELY!”—from overhyped breadsticks to weathermen certain about 60% rain. Yes, really.
- [MAGA-WOKE!](https://genescottbooks.com/maga-woke/): TRIGGERED! [Intro - Melodic Trap Beat with Guitar] Yeah, yeah They started it first Now look who's hurt Yeah [Hook - Simple & Hypnotic] MAGA-WOKE (yeah) MAGA-WOKE (yeah) Live by the meme, die by the tweet MAGA-WOKE (yeah) MAGA-WOKE (yeah) Tables turn when you feel that heat [Verse 1 - Clear Rap Flow] Dana crying
- [Don't Poke The Bear!](https://genescottbooks.com/dont-poke-the-bear/): [Verse 1] There's a sleeping giant up in the mountains highBeen resting peaceful underneath the northern skyBut some folks think they're clever, think they're smartWant to stir up trouble, want to play that partWell I'm here to tell you what my daddy said to meSome lessons draw blood before you see [Chorus] Don't poke the
- [Illinois Library Dates Announced!](https://genescottbooks.com/illinois-library-dates-august-8-9-geneseo-and-princeton-illinois/): FROM TUDOR POISON PLOTS TO BIG PHARMA LIES! One family. Five centuries. The deadliest secret. History remembers the poison. But not the testers. GENE SCOTT 1521: A Tudor poison tester risks everything to protect the crown. 2025: An Appalachian researcher uncovers Big Pharma’s deadliest secret. The link? A family legacy written in blood, herbs, and
- [Domestic Tranquility?](https://genescottbooks.com/domestic-tranquility/): "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..." Eighth grade, 1970s Illinois. Six weeks to memorize the preamble, the Gettysburg Address, and pass the Constitution test—or spend another year in the same classroom. Mrs. Robinson was petite, but strong, and she taught us
- [Trump to Base: "I Don't Want Your Support"](https://genescottbooks.com/trump-to-base-i-dont-want-your-support/): —MAGA Civil War Erupts Over Epstein Files July 16, 2025 In an extraordinary rebuke of his own base, President Donald Trump lashed out at supporters demanding transparency about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, calling them "weaklings" and declaring he no longer wants their support. The Breaking Point The controversy erupted this morning when Trump
- [Barbie, Superman, and the Snowflake Apocalypse](https://genescottbooks.com/7921-2/): Barbie, Superman, and the Snowflake Apocalypse When grown men with law degrees are lighting dolls on fire for YouTube views, something's broken in America. The Man of Steel vs. The Outrage Machine James Gunn committed an unforgivable sin. He called Superman "an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country" and suggested that
- [The Man Who Trusts No One](https://genescottbooks.com/the-man-who-trusts-no-one/): The Man Who Trusts No One: Inside Trump's Hall of Mirrors Mar-a-Lago after dark. AC humming. Fox News on mute. He's sitting there scrolling through his phone, watching his old buddies rat him out one by one. "Meadows testified to the grand jury under immunity." Diet Coke getting warm. His thumb stops moving. "I don't
- [When Your House of Cards Is Built on Quicksand Made of Bullshit](https://genescottbooks.com/when-your-house-of-cards-is-built-on-quicksand-made-of-bullshit/): Another Bait. Another Switch. The list exists. They buried it. And now they’re acting like we imagined the whole thing. No names, no files, no blackmail. Just another late-night memo with no signature and a pile of silence behind it. That’s not denial—it’s a cover-up in plain sight. And it's not the first time. Trump’s Meta Description: A satirical visual commentary showing a fragile house of cards labeled “BAIT” and “SWITCH” precariously balanced on a pile of manure over quicksand—symbolizing political deception and collapse. Inspired by Michael "Gene" Scott’s July 14, 2025 article, “Another Bait. Another Switch.”
- [The Platinum Guillotine Collar: Fashion for the Final Days](https://genescottbooks.com/the-platinum-guillotine-collar-fashion-for-the-final-days/): In an age where private jets leave longer contrails than government accountability, and bunkers are booked out faster than therapy sessions, a singular fear unites the ultra-wealthy: the guillotine. Once a symbol of justice for the oppressed, the blade has been reimagined in digital memes and protest signs as a threat to those who fly
- [The Appetite Engine](https://genescottbooks.com/the-appetite-engine/): In a world where water is memory and hope is rationed by the drop, a mysterious transmission leads three scavengers across the wasteland toward an impossible tower floating in the sky. Above them, immortal aristocrats dine endlessly at an eternal brunch, unaware that their paradise feeds on the world's suffering. This is a story about
- [Online Book Club Reviews "Jellybeaners"](https://genescottbooks.com/online-book-club-reviews-jellybeaners/): Review of Jellybeaners by Fine Brand » 14 Apr 2022 Children are crying and in shock. Vane Sarge Walker arrives at the scene along with the Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department. Ashley, a three-year-old, seems to be the current victim of the pill mill tree of shame. Ashley's doll is found with a broken neck. Sarge promises to
- [Opioids and Obituaries](https://genescottbooks.com/opioids-and-obituaries/): The motivation behind Jellybeaners -- to shine light upon the opioid epidemic taking Americans at the rate of fifty per day -- remains front and center in the news, and burns painfully in our collective hearts. Logically, one should abstain from indulging in news the first thing in the morning. Soaking up death, stabbings, arson, child neglect, fracking, meth-lab explosions, sex
- [Opioids in the News](https://genescottbooks.com/recent-opioid-facts-opinions-in-the-news/): Dear Readers, Today I'm simply re-posting recent articles -- written by others -- directly related to the opioid epidemic, which is the subject of my recently published novel. New readers are signing up almost daily to receive this blog, and many are medical students or political science majors interested in the topics and the accompanying
- [The Two-Tailed American Taliban](https://genescottbooks.com/the-american-taliban/): The polarization of America continues at a rapid pace, but we weren’t always at each other’s throats. Following WWII, soldiers of both political parties returned home to marry, buy homes, spawn babies, and pursue careers. My great uncle William Plum grew up dirt poor in Minnesota where his large family regularly snared deer and headshot
- [Crawling Out of Health Care Hell](https://genescottbooks.com/crawling-out-of-health-care-hell/): Our current health care mess is more a political debacle than a substantial challenge to the intellect when it comes to solvency. Morally? We can do better by providing excellent health care to all Americans while lowering the overall cost, though it may slightly burden the wealthy and middle-class folks in order to reach the prize of
- [Commonsense Frugality Applied to Run-Away Government](https://genescottbooks.com/commonsense-frugality-applied-to-run-away-government/): Have you ever noticed that Trump-Era right wing American gun toters desiring a continuing global military presence are often the same folks wailing for limited government? Hello. Ike warned us fifty-six years ago about the burgeoning military-industrial complex, the Orange Tweeter ran his presidential campaign on "draining the swamp", the supposed budget-minded Republicans are now in
- [Midwestern Lake Tour:  Superior, Michigan, Dale Hollow (Fall 2017)](https://genescottbooks.com/midwestern-lake-tour-superior-michigan-dale-hollow-fall-2017/): Following a two-month visit to Western Illinois this fall – helping my active mother recuperate from hip surgery – my wife Lana and I were free to drive back to Tennessee any way we chose. Pumped up on Jim Harrison’s “Brown Dog” novellas set in Upper Peninsula Michigan, we needed to lay eyes on this
- [The Perfect Prison](https://genescottbooks.com/the-perfect-prison/): When I was twenty-three, I found myself unemployed, and living in my girlfriend's room in her parents' beautiful brick house on the South Side of Chicago in an affluent white neighborhood slipping into descent after the M.L.K. riots of 1968. They kept me upstairs and visible, with girlfriend relegated to the basement. I remember wandering
- [Italy Captures the Gang of Ten](https://genescottbooks.com/italy-captures-the-gang-of-ten/): Grape-land never made our bucket list. We assumed it was hot, humid, dirty, overrun with tourists, smelly, and rife with Gypsies rifling pockets. All that's true ... Then a life-long friend retired, snagged a timeshare in Cortona, Tuscany, and invited the old gang over for a June holiday. Within hours of our arrival, the people,
- [Cabin Fever](https://genescottbooks.com/cabin-fever/): My energetic wife and I retired years ago, and we’re good at being together. A big house helps, and we both like holing up in our own space for long periods. We genuinely like being together, debating current events, comparing books, taking long walks, traveling, riding bikes, and motorcycling. She hikes at least twice a
- [A Plumber, A Marshmallow, and Love](https://genescottbooks.com/a-plumber-a-marshmallow-and-love/): I'm now teaching a creative writing class to an interesting group of folk who spend large portions of their day reading and scribbling, so they're better writers than I am. No surprise there. After thirty years in the classroom, I admit that I've never been the smartest guy in the room, even when left alone
- [Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Thirsty](https://genescottbooks.com/mammas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-be-thirsty/): Lots of bluster and fear mongering from the White House these days over immigration while the nation passes the potato chips and gazes mindlessly at videos of kids in cages, a few possibly sold to white slavers after their paperwork was lost under the current administration's "supervision." Ironically, a natural event at our house recently
- [Photographing Faith](https://genescottbooks.com/photographing-faith/): Our church family now publishes amateur photographs -- scenes inspired by the Holy Spirit -- on its social media site. The response has been heartwarming, and immediate. The visual world -- shared through photographs since its invention in the mid-1820's -- affords free travel for all to locations and perspectives previously unimagined. And because we've
- [Big Pharma Throws Shade](https://genescottbooks.com/big-pharma-throws-shade/): My son and his fiancé asked us over for a tasty mid-morning outdoor breakfast –– her parents were visiting on their way to Texas –– so we enjoyed smoked bacon, mixed fresh fruit, and recently-gathered eggs next to a large lavender bush. A monster. Which reminded me of an ancient National Geographic special I’d seen
- [Standing Tall](https://genescottbooks.com/standing-tall/): A certified rock star, whose stage apparel and song lists hang in Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame, graced Johnson City’s Down Home Saturday night on February 8th to promote Stand Tall, an homage to Jason and the Scorcher's 1996 release Still Standing. The owner of this famous pickin' parlor – Ed Snodderly – is
- [The Lifers' Club](https://genescottbooks.com/the-lifers-club/): The church I attend is extremely generous with its time, talent, and resources, but it wasn't always this way. When my wife and I joined in 1990, many of the congregants were "intellectuals" from the university (myself included) who thought highly of the impoverished, but didn't do much to help them physically. We threw money at them, mostly. Kept our distance.
- [Viral Humans](https://genescottbooks.com/viral-humans/): Whether we buy into the idea that humans are a virus or not doesn't matter. What matters is how we react to the situation.
- [A Cry from Behind Prison Walls](https://genescottbooks.com/a-cry-from-behind-prison-walls/): Dear Readers, I teach creative writing two days a month at a local state prison: Northeast Correctional Complex, Mountain City, Tennessee. I wrote a column here about The Lifer's Club, and how they serve the community. A letter recently arrived from one of my students, who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. It's been sent
- [Opioid Deaths Sky Rocket](https://genescottbooks.com/opioid-deaths-sky-rocket/): When Jellybeaners appeared in 2017 the overall death toll linked to opioids was 40,000 Americans per year. Now? It's topping 50,000.Here are the current statistics about the opioid epidemic from the National Drug Helpline: OPIOID ABUSE AND ADDICTION STATISTICS PRESCRIPTION OPIOID STATISTICS In 2017, 1.7 million Americans had substance use disorders with an addiction to
- [Blue Ridge Parkway:  Spring 2021](https://genescottbooks.com/blue-ridge-parkway-spring-2021/): Travel may be the one expense that makes us richer. Although it is often fraught with short-term displeasure, the long-term effect – if you survive – is brain enhancing, life-rewarding. Thirty-five years ago, my bride-of-one-day and I climbed aboard a used 1979 Honda Goldwing GL, a wedding gift from my parents, and rode up the
- [Biblical Justice?](https://genescottbooks.com/biblical-justice/): One of our church pastors – we’re blessed with a tag-team, a hard-working couple with big hearts, and vivacious children – decided to make a video on biblical justice for a sermon series, and asked me to contribute due to my involvement in a prison ministry. Here’s the original script with details that hit the
- [La Fortuna, Costa Rica](https://genescottbooks.com/la-fortuna-costa-rica/): Fifteen years ago, a close friend of ours in Southern Illinois, Dana Simpson – a dedicated nurse who devoted thirty years to caring for others – came down with COPD. This disease chewed her up one inch at a time while her husband labored around the clock, sleeping three-sometimes-four hours a day, feeding, bathing, bath-rooming,
- [Full Circle](https://genescottbooks.com/the-full-circle/): Growing up on a hog farm, I saw hogs eat each other. Especially when the "lunch" hog was sick, injured, or different in any way. Every now and then you saw a hog born with both set of genitals. Hermaphrodites became prime lunch if they happened to be sick or weak. When I read Orwell's
- [There Was a Time](https://genescottbooks.com/there-was-a-time/): In high school, I worked two summers on the Hennepin Canal, a relic of the 19th Century connecting the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers allowing mules to pull barges from Rock Island to Chicago. Although it was a "failure" -- due to the simultaneous widening of locks on those big rivers that made it quickly obsolete
- [The Story of Howard Atkins](https://genescottbooks.com/the-story-of-howard-atkins/): I met Howard Atkins in 2016 during a Kairos (Christian ministry) weekend at Northeast Correctional Complex near Mountain City, Tennessee. Later, when I began teaching creative writing at the same facility, Howard quickly became one of the most entertaining writers in the group, his wit and plot twists reflecting a sharp mind. I observed him
- [Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky](https://genescottbooks.com/shaker-village-in-pleasant-hill-kentucky/): My wife and I bought an old house – built in 1940 and composed of drill-proof Portland cement, two-by-sixes that are actually 2” by 6”, and hand-mixed plaster applied by master craftsmen – but outside it’s noisy with a busy two-lane boulevard behind us leaking traffic noise through two rows of pine trees. We’ve stuck
- [Dear Diary (Election Day 2022)](https://genescottbooks.com/dear-diary-election-day-2022/): I've never shared an entry from my personal diary before, but today I got up and read the newspaper and discovered: On November 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch” (AP). In 2016, Republican
- [Are You Woke Yet?](https://genescottbooks.com/are-you-woke-yet/): Trump’s Budget 2025 & The Chainsaw Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid: What’s Really Happening?Excerpt: Trump’s 2025 budget talks a big game about protecting Medicare and Medicaid—but the numbers tell another story. From GOP-driven block grants to Musk-inspired privatization pushes, millions of Americans are bracing for cuts that could reshape healthcare as we know it. A
- [Still That Kid](https://genescottbooks.com/still-that-kid/): Some kids never really grow out of who they are—they just grow into it. My son was one of those kids. From the time he could walk, he was outside, chasing trails, building things, and throwing himself into whatever captured his imagination. He became an Eagle Scout, a carpenter, an artist, and eventually a firefighter.
- [You Can’t Have Your Cake, and Edith, Too](https://genescottbooks.com/you-cant-have-your-cake-and-edith-too/): Modern Patriotism in Crisis: National Identity, Nostalgia, and the American Myth Let’s talk about modern patriotism in America. Not the sticker-on-a-truck kind. Not the TikTok “1776 vibes” kind. Not the brand with bald eagles screaming over trap beats. I’m talking about the kind that shows up whenever something too American gets remixed—like a rapper flipping
- [Democracy’s Breaking Point: America’s Moment of Decision](https://genescottbooks.com/democracys-breaking-point-americas-moment-of-decision/): by Gene Scott Ruby Freeman and the Fragility of American Democracy In 2020, Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman dedicated her efforts to helping her community vote. She never expected to become a symbol of democracy’s fragility. After being falsely accused of election fraud, she received death threats and was forced into hiding. Her experience
- [Elon Musk’s Attack on USAID is Self-Defeating](https://genescottbooks.com/elon-musks-attack-on-usaid-is-self-defeating/): Elon Musk built his empire by betting on the future. So why is he selling a dead-end, self-defeating argument on foreign aid? His attacks on USAID—America’s food and development assistance program—aren’t just misinformed. They’re a sales pitch wrapped in a lie.He claims foreign aid is a waste. That it’s corrupt. That it doesn’t benefit the
- [Tennessee Gun Violence: The Victims, the Laws, and What Must Change](https://genescottbooks.com/tennessee-gun-violence-the-victims-the-laws-and-what-must-change/): Tennessee, we have a problem. And it’s not some distant tragedy, not some "big city" violence we can ignore. It’s here. It’s in our schools. Our grocery stores. Our homes. We whisper Second Amendment prayers while we bury our babies. A State Soaked in Blood Tennessee has been bathed in gunfire, over and over again.
- [King of the World?](https://genescottbooks.com/king-of-the-world/): Elon Musk’s Power, Politics, and the Cracks Beneath Leonardo DiCaprio stands at the bow of the Titanic, arms spread wide, wind in his face, shouting, “I’m king of the world!” It’s an iconic moment—one of triumph, confidence, and limitless ambition. But for those who know how the story ends, it’s also the perfect symbol of
- [Don't Hit Me!](https://genescottbooks.com/dont-hit-me-2/): I wrote this song two months ago -- but as soon as it was recorded -- a female graduate student at ETSU was stuck by a car on a quiet street near my church. Now, I'd like to dedicate this tune to Halie Rex, who was all about helping others. Please ask your local politicians how
- [Destiny](https://genescottbooks.com/destiny/)
- [Jimbo](https://genescottbooks.com/jimbo/): Wrote this song on 6-5-23, the twenty-first anniversary of my brother's death. Miss him. ~ James Mitchell Scott 10/8/59 - 6/5/2002 ~
- [AR-15s Versus Viagra](https://genescottbooks.com/if-you-are-too-weak-to-handle-a-large-caliber-bolt-action-rifle-or-join-the-military-there-is-always-viagra/): If you are too weak to handle a large-caliber, bolt-action rifle or join the military, there is always Viagra.
- [Everywhere We Look](https://genescottbooks.com/everywhere-we-look/): The Big Guy is always available. Reminders are everywhere we look. But we must first let Him in. He believes in our freedom to choose for ourselves. And He won’t step on our freedom, like others will. Beware of fake Christians. If they manipulate “their religion” to entangle the simple-minded in money-making schemes: run away.
- [Thar She Blows!](https://genescottbooks.com/thar-she-blows/): Dear Editor, The Saturday paper listed The Wager as the current #1 non-fiction bestseller, and I’m enjoying the true story, a frightening account of life at sea in the 1700s. Ironically, it mirrors current U.S. politics. Each sailor crewing an English man-of-war had a purpose; if that purpose went unfulfilled, people died. To become a
- [An Open Letter to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee:   Stop Banning Books!](https://genescottbooks.com/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-bans-books-in-state-prison/): Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, an ultra-conservative state in the heart of the Bible Belt, has banned the Bible in Tennessee prisons along with all other literature. How do I know this? I regularly send books to inmates via Amazon and other publishers, and we trade letters constantly. Governor Lee cut off the sending of
- [The Future Arrives](https://genescottbooks.com/5852-2/): Was pleasantly surprised last night by Josh Shapiro’s and Tim Walz’s speeches. There is hope! They both see the lunacy in the opposition’s policy of continuously fomenting hate and division. They both clearly exude joy, happiness, optimism, and delight in working TOGETHER to improve our nation. They’ve labeled the far right as weirdos and it
- [Wind-Powered Bacon Does the Trick](https://genescottbooks.com/wind-powered-bacon-does-the-trick/): I used to think that word-lovers like me had to awaken those with honest minds to rethink their loyalty to a television “personality” with no redeeming qualities, no real love for anything on this lovely planet — especially a spiritual life — but himself. We’re past that now. None are so blind as those who
- [Reflections](https://genescottbooks.com/reflections/): In their early twenties, Robb and Gene were thrust into a world where technology had become an inescapable presence. AI assistants were no longer just tools; they had become integral parts of daily life—helpers, companions, even confidants. This shift fascinated and frightened the two young men in equal measure. Robb, always considerate and kind, treated
- [Like Nobody's Ever Seen!](https://genescottbooks.com/like-nobodys-ever-seen/): Nobody’s ever seen anything like this, folks. Nobody. No president, no leader—nobody’s had to deal with what I’ve dealt with. But look at what’s coming, folks. It’s worse than ever. It’s going to be bad—really bad. You know who’s going to be in charge? Kamala. And I’ll tell you right now—when she’s president, the White
- [A Battle Zone of His Own Making](https://genescottbooks.com/a-battle-zone-of-his-own-making/): Kerpow! He now lives in a battle zone of his own making. Where truth and lies collide: the air thick with dread, fear, old Fox Ladies Shaking. The storm he unleashed, with words sharp and raking: Vermin! The ground beneath him crumbling, Soaked in red, his brain on Adderall baking. But in this self-made tempest,
- [Won’t Get Fooled Again?](https://genescottbooks.com/wont-get-fooled-again/): We’ve been fooled before, but we don’t have to be fooled again. The power is in our hands, if only we’re brave enough to use it.
- [The Flag Still Waves](https://genescottbooks.com/the-flag-still-waves/): By Phil Gray In the early hours of September 16, 1814, as smoke from the British bombardment choked the sky over Baltimore Harbor, Francis Scott Key stood on the deck of a ship, his heart pounding with uncertainty. The night had been long and brutal, filled with cannon fire and exploding shells. Key’s eyes strained
- [Welcome to Trousdale!](https://genescottbooks.com/welcome-to-trousdale/): (Note: We're following up our recent blog "The Story of Howard Atkins" with Howard's advice to anyone headed to one of the worst prisons in the United States. Managed by CoreCivic, this facility may be a glimpse into the near-future with our current authoritarian "leader' planning on mass deportation. What comes before mass deportation? Mass
- [Lessons Learned from the Trial of Eight Immigrants After the Flood](https://genescottbooks.com/lessons-learned-from-the-trial-of-eight-immigrants-after-the-flood/): by Herman Garcia In the Tri-Cities area, we face a significant issue with racial profiling by law enforcement. This problem became painfully clear during the trial of the eight immigrant farm workers arrested in Washington County. The outcome of this trial should serve as a wake-up call and a lesson for our community about fairness,
- [Don’t Hit Me](https://genescottbooks.com/dont-hit-me/): As a bicyclist / songwriter who’s undergone three (3) knee replacements, this popped into my head today as I rode to the post office dodging pizza delivery men. Don’t Hit Me [Verse 1] (D) I’m just a biker in this (F) crazy town,(C) Pedaling fast, I don’t (G) want to slow down,(D) Dodging the taxis,
- [We Need Prayers](https://genescottbooks.com/we-need-prayers/): Here is the latest video. (Copyright MSNBC). I apologize for laughing. Seriously: We need to pray for this poor guy. I'm not being ironic. I'm not putting my tongue in my cheek. I'm serious. When you are this deep in the delusional zone, you need help. Please pray with me for him. Please pray for
- [Let’s Play the Republican Game!](https://genescottbooks.com/lets-play-the-republican-game/): ALERT! Let’s play The Republican Game and foment chaos instead of working for the American people: John Wayne Gacy and JD Vance appear to be brothers! JD is eating your aunts! JD is eating your uncles! JD is eating your second cousins!JD is eating! Alert! (Note: If you can't see how stupid this line of
- [Freight Train](https://genescottbooks.com/freight-train/): This video honors our classmates we’ll miss at our Western High School (Buda, Illinois) 50th High School Reunion this summer. You are not forgotten. And we’re all on the freight train. https://youtu.be/P_BNI-w3LFY?si=CJSf47gRlDIR09sj
- [Looking Back...](https://genescottbooks.com/looking-back/): Happy Mother's Day! This is celebration of the special life of Lana Ferguson Scott, born in the mountains of East Tennessee in 1948. She was the first female sales rep in the field selling plastic for Eastman Chemical back in the 1970s, and is a world traveler, avid reader, and an active hiker in the
- [Tribal Connections](https://genescottbooks.com/tribal-connections/): Whenever my life begins to feel too “cushy” – which is often since I’m a spoiled American Baby Booming corpulent white male with a loving/doting wife, a squared-away son, a reasonably functional family, early retirement, and a supportive church family – I sign up for a mission trip, foreign or domestic. Which cures the spoiled-brat
- [The Thrill Is Gone (BB King Cover)](https://genescottbooks.com/the-thrill-is-gone-bb-king-cover/): This cover of the BB King classic is dedicated to Facebook, Fox News, and the Republican Party, which I used to admire when truth and democracy reigned.
- [How Many More Rolls?](https://genescottbooks.com/how-many-more-rolls/): Verse 1 Woke up this morning With coffee on my mind, But a bad boy in the pipeline Put my plans in a bind. When the toilet roll spun empty, A thought crossed my mind: How many more rolls Before that last flush in time? Chorus How many more rolls? Cinnamon or spice? How many
- [Butt Shooting Reported](https://genescottbooks.com/butt-shooting-reported/): Looked like the GOP would gather new seats in the mid-terms. They had it nearly sewn up. But then they stripped constitutional rights and freedoms from 1/2 of all voters. Uh. Followed that up by castrating the EPA and ensuring our early deaths via air and water pollution just so the petroleum industry could rake
- [This Crazy Liberal Dude ...](https://genescottbooks.com/this-crazy-liberal-dude/): You should read it! It’s a gruesome yet beautiful, redeeming love story about this crazy homeless liberal dude with long hair, one set of clothes, and dirty sandals who possesses an open heart, and an open mind, and then He opens doors and cares for immigrants (He was an immigrant himself), plus the sick
- [A True Story](https://genescottbooks.com/a-true-story/): [zoomsounds_player artistname="Gene Scott" songname="A True Story" config="default" type="audio" dzsap_meta_source_attachment_id="4339" source="https://genescottbooksdotcom.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/A-true-story.-41722-2.55-PM.mp3" post_content='none' cover="https://genescottbooksdotcom.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_7619-scaled.jpeg" autoplay="off" loop="off" play_in_footer_player="default" enable_download_button="off" enable_downloads_counter="off" download_custom_link_enable="off" open_in_ultibox="off"] A child desperately ill with stomach cancer was at the end of his life. Doctors had tried everything to no avail. His church assembled, laid hands on him, and prayed. A few days later they received
- [Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum](https://genescottbooks.com/barber-vintage-motorsports-museum/): Motorcycling is a genetic thread running through my family’s history. Grandfather Lawrence “Goofy” Scott delivered moonshine during Prohibition on a 1920 Harley Model J, bragging he could ride standing on the seat with both arms extended horizontally for balance -- with the throttle tied off. He earned the nickname “Goofy” after a teacher slapped him
- [Momma Mamilla](https://genescottbooks.com/momma-mamilla/): Giorgia – a graduate school girlfriend – elevated her quiet nature into an imminent road hazard whenever we strolled down the sidewalk. Male drivers – necks straining, eyeballs bulging—often smashed into telephone poles or clipped fire hydrants as we sauntered down the avenue, heads up for automotive danger. Living on the same dormitory floor— we
- [Jesus and Germs](https://genescottbooks.com/jesus-and-germs/): Dear Readers, Here's the latest cut, inspired by a motorcycle ride through lovely Western North Carolina. Thanks for listening, praying, and washing your hands! Jesus and Germs My buddy and I Took a long motorcycle ride Through North Carolina one day. When we stopped for a bite The front door was locked tight. But through
- [Balance](https://genescottbooks.com/balance/): We complain, blame God for Pain. Forget to give thanks for Pleasure. We suffer floods, curse His name, Forget to praise the sprouting Grain. Our world seethes in Yin, While gushing gracious Yang, Equal parts solace, Equal parts stain. His work, our dalliance: The Cross Road, Where eternal fortunes Hang. -- Gene Scott (20 August
- [Grace in a Mail Bag](https://genescottbooks.com/grace-in-a-mail-bag/): A letter and booklet arrived in the mail this morning from the little Midwestern town where I grew up, the village mortician reminding me that a year has passed since my mother’s death. I did not need reminding. This mailing did not upset me – quite the opposite. The mortician had already buried my brother
- ["We'll Be Together Someday" Now Available Online!](https://genescottbooks.com/well-be-together-someday-now-available-online/): The UK music site Tinnitist added The Tongues, and Potato Heads to its Top 100 Playlist. Click the logos for the entire album.
- [We'll Be Together Again Someday Album Release Set for Friday March 12](https://genescottbooks.com/well-be-together-again-someday-album-release-set-for-friday-march-12/): My first album will be released Friday 12 March. Available at the outlets below. Had no intention of doing this, but two factors led to its creation: 1) the closing of libraries that thwarted the novel I was working on; and, 2) An old friend planted a bug in my ear. I'd written a couple
- [Once Again](https://genescottbooks.com/once-again/): We are a beacon. Once again. Verse 1 People sat on their hands in ’16.Didn’t care much for the Democratic Queen.But now their eyes are open once again. (Turn Around)And they turned out in droves to defend.What makes America the greatest land.Egalitarian law.We are a beacon.Once again. Verse 2 When 2024 rolls around,They won’t send
- [Where Are We Now?](https://genescottbooks.com/where-are-we-now/): Where are truth and love? Where are we now? Where has America gone? Where are we now? Is this the swan song? Where have the morals gone? Taught from above? Where are the morals now? Where are truth and love? Where are the Christians now? Since lies are King? Where are the Christians now? Does
- [Pearl](https://genescottbooks.com/pearl/): Pearl was my first recording, issued seven years ago (4-2014). Verse 1 Justin was tired of it all, though he was only seventeen. Little Queenie – his sister – drove him crazy and his brother was a drunk Marine. His parents sold crack in the back of a bar called the Silver Spur, And the
- [The Tongues](https://genescottbooks.com/the-tongues/): You saw. With your own eyes. How lies. Allow crazies to thrive.
- [Political Potato Heads](https://genescottbooks.com/political-potato-heads/): Have you ever noticed how everything is political now? Even Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. So let's focus on what's important! Plastic! Tater heads! Mr. Tater Head. He’s in the news. Mr. Tater Head. Mrs. Tater Head She’s political. Mrs. Tater Head. Doesn’t matter How many died Of the Covid. It’s Mr. Tater Head. He’s
- [Trash Talk](https://genescottbooks.com/trash-talk/): You can't make up this sort of thing. People would laugh and throw disgusting objects at you for inserting blatant -- although natural -- irony into fiction. Trash talkers blocked every good thing President Obama tried to do for eight years, and beyond, regardless of how their obstruction negatively impacted the poor, the sick, the
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