I have something in common with Stephen Colbert. We both, at a young age, thinking ahead to trying to make it big on TV, decided that we weren’t going to have a Southern accent. Colbert, a D.C. native ...

Doesn’t it just jar your preserves when Hollywood thinks we all sound like Scarlett O’Hara? I’d also like to let them know we’ve had air-conditioning for about seven decades (what was with all those ...