Hillbilly Elegy: The Muppets Take Ohio

A case study in ‘hickface’

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An acquaintance of mine, an older gentleman from an even more remote backwood of Tennessee than me, told me a story several years ago about how he once captured a teenager who had been serially vandalizing his mailbox. Albert, my acquaintance, was bottle-feeding his infant son when he heard the familiar and infuriating crash of baseball bats against…