Approaching the end of his Senate term, TN Sen. Bill Frist suddenly decides to dump stock in his family's company HCA -- just weeks befo...

Gird your loins, dear reader. The Camera is On. Ready? One thing I like about the website Crooks and Liars is they serve up television in...

Once again, SKB (R. Neal) has a great post about how strong and vigorous the Internet and the Riders on the Blog have become . The collapse...

The workers in East TN and elsewhere are waiting for FEMA to respond so they can get to work on making mobile homes for the devastated Gulf ...

It is obscene. The leaders in Washington and their mealy-mouthed toadies and spin-doctors/lobbyists fitfully try and hide the horrendous fai...

This here post today be part of an International Day, it be. Some year back, no man knows the full history save one or two, September 19 be ...

As I told you on Wednesday, the State Attorney General had twice notified local Sessions Judge Bacon and the local utility board that it was...

The normal schedule here on yer Cup Of Joe is a movie feature and recommendations, but oh faithful readers, not this weekend. I've been ...

Several items in the news -- though not to be found in your local media - have my attention as we head into the weekend. First, Hamblen Cou...

I'd like to urge you to read the web postings for East Tennessean Travis Stuart in Iraq, who just received a promotion. Congrats, my fri...

The State's Attorney General has twice now issued rulings showing it is illegal for Sessions Court Judge Herbert Bacon to hold a board s...

No details yet, but the Koch Foods plant workers voted successfully to create a union for workers this weekend. Still no mention of this in ...

" The corporate, political and religious right converge here, led by a president who, in his own disdain for science, reason and knowle...

It's not Alaska that's getting drilled in the current Oil Price Madness, not wetlands or parks, and not even the mideast deserts. It...

"Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not re...

What to do when an International Corporation may have to actually pay for building a manufacturing plant? Why, get it from taxpayers of cour...

Last month, I told you about efforts of workers at Koch Foods to create a union to gain some rights as employees, and today the NY Times pic...

From the New Orleans Times Picayune . Be sure to read their Open Letter to The President. And don't be distracted by our failure , says...

Hopefully, even a novice would know how easily facts are lost in Time -- whether it's poorly kept minutes of the Hamblen County Commissi...

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