RSM founder Wayne Franklin responds to the portrayal of this site in a recent column by George Packer of the New Yorker.
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We didn’t secede from the Internet! (Catching up on some Real Southern News)
November 28, 2012 
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Now … what have we missed while we’ve been away? Oh, yeah! The world came to an end one Tuesday in November … or was saved from itself …
Read more Do We Still Deserve the 2nd Amendment?
September 21, 2012 3 Comments
While we were on hiatus this summer, it seems the whole country, rather than taking time to go to the beach, the mountains, and Disneys both Land and World, went completely and totally insane.
Read more Beyond Healthcare: 12 Other Things That Deserve an Individual Mandate
June 28, 2012 2 Comments
We’re not concerned about the politics of yesterday. We’re looking ahead toward tomorrow and where this bold new precedent could take us.
Read more Heat Makes Yankees Crazy (or Why the Zombie Apocalypse is Starting in Florida)
June 1, 2012 10 Comments
Is this the beginning of a zombie apocalypse? Hardly. Crazy has been commonplace in the dangly half of Florida for as long as most of us can remember.
Read more The Best of RSM: Chasing Down A Killer
March 4, 2012 0 Comments
“I’m retired. I’m not going to do it.” If not for a heated argument with a contractor for a bingo parlor over the fragile nature of his septic field lines, those could have been John Oldshue’s famous last words. On April 27, the former meteorologist and his friend Ben Greer, a first-time storm chaser, found […]
Read more A Southern Man’s Look at the Steve Jobs Legacy
October 6, 2011 5 Comments
The fact is that 99% of the people who posted quotes from Steve Jobs don’t actually live in the manner his words describe. There’s a reason for that: they might fail.
Read more Texans Under Fire
September 22, 2011 0 Comments
RSM Nicklaus Louis wrestles with the psychological effects of the recent wildfires near his home in the Austin, Texas area.
Read more A Real Southern Man Never Quits: A Confession
August 19, 2011 9 Comments
It’s Friday. Very few people will read this website today. That’s what our statistics tell us.
I can tell you that there have been 190 posts on this site since we started on April 9. Of those, I’ve written about 165. But why do I do it?
Read more Chasing Down A Killer
August 11, 2011 16 Comments
They got the first live footage of the Tuscaloosa tornado on April 27. They got the first live footage of its aftermath. Had it not been for an angry septic contractor, they may have been two of its victims.
Wayne Franklin tells the harrowing story of John Oldshue and Ben Greer and their day chasing down a killer.
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