My feet are torn and bloody, and my heart is full of woe,
I’m goin’ back to Georgia, to find my Uncle Joe,
You can talk about your Beauregard and sing of Bobby Lee,
But the gallant Hood of Texas, he played hell in Tennessee!

The CS Army of Tennessee basically disintegrated after the massacre at Franklin and the rout at Nashville, and its scattered elements re-formed in Georgia under the command of Joseph Johnston. They later surrendered (on the same day John Wilkes Booth was killed) exactly one hundred years before I was born. Nothing to do with Emily West Morgan, of course, but I think about that every time I hear “Yellow Rose.”

The gallant Hood had already gotten my g’g'g’-grandfather killed at Atlanta back in July of ’64. Placing him in charge was what Marines would call a “poor command decision.”

The answers are, “$75, counting S&P, but that’s for two batteries, three vaporizers, the USB recharger, the wall recharger, the box, the manual, and a dozen cartridges. By the time you buy two or three cartons of regular cigarettes, you’ve spent as much.”

“You couldn’t just stuff weed in it; that would just break your e-cig and waste your pot. If you had a THC extraction (maybe some Marinol) and mixed that with propylene glycol or food-grade glycerin, then yes, you could get higher than a kite. And, nobody would be able to smell it.”

What I like about the e-cig (other than the gadgetry of it) is that it doesn’t stink up my place, my clothes, or even the air. Unless it’s blown directly into my face, I don’t smell it.

I’m now waiting for somebody to ask the two questions which are always asked about this device.

Which reminds me: I have an electric cigarette for guests who smoke, but have let my sister borrow it. I need to get it back from her. But not right now; I don’t get many smoking guests these days.

Male chauvinists, neofeminists, egalitarians, etc, all agree that a woman’s sexuality is powerful. But sometimes it’s assumed that this is the ONLY power women have, so ANYTHING she accomplishes must have been done with sex-power. A man who gets ahead in a non-muscle business isn’t assumed to have done it with his muscles, because we recognize that men have more to offer than muscle.

Perhaps, if we accepted female sexual power instead of trying to fight it, we’d notice that women have other things to offer as well. I suppose that if we were constantly disparaging the use of male muscle to make a living, we’d forget that sometimes, men get ahead with math or inspiration, and not always with muscle.