Last week, I offered you a chance to vote on some your favorite horror movies as we take our daily steps towards Halloween. Many responded a...

As the state circles around and around real reform for Ethics or Lobbyists or TennCare, the finger-pointing continues -- "He/She is wor...

Hamblen County taxpayers got stuck once again with a new and ever-expanding schools funding bill, though the local media cheered the barely-...

I'm sure you've noticed them, those magnetic yellow ribbons stuck on the backs and sides of cars and SUVs and trucks, which read ...

I linked to this post via Crooks and Liars , submitted the URL and lo and behold, this Cup Of Joe Powell has cash value! My blog is w...

NOTE : The Editor graciously created the masthead for this post and for Halloween, and I cannot express enough gratitude for her time and he...

Tim Chavez, a columnist for "The Tennessean" featured my blog in his column for today, regarding the idea that more discussion i...

I was happy to note a new book available which shows the liquids we consume throughout the world and in nearly every home are truly benchmar...

Serious efforts to create laws governing Ethics in the state legislature have finally gotten into some critical specifics, although there ar...

Let's hit the good news first - of all the movies currently available in theatres right now, the best-reviewed, most audience pleasing m...

About two years ago the writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. came to the University of Tennessee and for a few days I was very excited about the idea o...

As shown in the Sunday edition of the Knoxville News-Sentinel, some politicians and some newspapers are stunned that people in our state our...

The GOP muscle in Congress has given the oil companies more tax breaks so they don't have to spend their record profits to invest in th...

First, the news - "Stately Wayne Manor" is still standing. Early reports cited that the house once used as the home of the 60s TV ...

Tennessee ranks 43rd in the nation when it comes to Job Growth, according to the latest FDIC study, as is noted in Facing South in a post by...

I don't know which is stranger -- the idea of telling people you have a bomb in your mouth as you attempt to rob a bank , or the picture...

The president's nomination for the next Supreme Court justice has to be a joke , right? Or pure distraction from all the Bad News over t...

After the last few weeks and months of constant bickering and whining by the political parties about who is to blame for one issue or anothe...

Some years ago, the late, great Frank Zappa called the cable channel "A&E" the "Arms and Entertainment" channel sinc...

Morristown native and master of the blues, Wallace Coleman , got a true education from a radio station - WLAC - whose musical influence is v...