Oh, Kentucky

Let's see ... what were we all doing a week ago?

"Dear Mr. Barnhart, ... My family has a long and proud tradition of following UK sports. We are lucky to be longtime season ticket holders for our men’s basketball team. My grandfather got his first set of tickets in the late 1940s when we were still playing games in Alumni Hall. I went to my first game as a young boy while Rex Chapman was playing for Eddie Sutton. ..."

Meanwhile, my dad once conceived of a hoax letter to the editor of The Paducah Sun in which he was going to explain that the town was settled by Jews who had named the town after their "Rabbi Hacudap." In his story, the Jewish settlers all eventually fled because of anti-semitism, and the remaining townspeople reversed the name of the town to "Paducah" and created the Chief Paduke legend. I'm pretty sure that he never actually wrote the letter.

"They got more dad-gumb degrees than a thermometer, but that don't make them good people."

iHarrodsburg.

The U.S. county with the lowest percentage of college-grad adults in Kentucky's Clinton. And it's really not very close.

Good jobs (and smart grid!) news from Park City.

A Winchester GRC/Clark County/The George product (and my favorite NFL player) is moving on.

"Coach Ray Harper did not respond to multiple messages left by The Courier-Journal. But in an interview posted on YouTube by the WKU student newspaper, the College Heights Herald, ..."

Mmmm ... "Tasty Chocolate" ... sounds tasty.