Writer Bobbie Ann Mason has some eye-opening info on the poverty that remains after shredding our mountains in search of coal in this artic...

Allow me the opportunity to bypass the normal movie post for a Friday and share this clip of a legendary musical performance recorded live i...

Senator Russ Feingold delivered a speech before the Senate that gets to the heart of the problem of the violations of the 4th Ammendment com...

It started yesterday when I saw the picture of an enormous rabbit featured in a BBC story . That is one huge dang bunny. (Check out the link...

Perhaps you'll get a better handle on the issue of the Great Cartoon Controversy of '06 if you consider that even a one panel drawi...

Sure, you've wondered and so have I. But now we have the answer. Which character from the endless "Star Wars" franchise would ...

One of the finest writers who ever called Knoxville and Rockford home is Cormac McCarthy and his most recent novel, "No Country For Old...

A reader here found the information about the tax breaks and free land for the Colgate plant relocating to Morristown in a Kentucky newspape...

" Something is setting Tennessee apart from the rest of the nation, and that something is state-level policies that fail to value the h...

Some will debate whether or not Cindy Sheehan's t-shirt worn at the State of the Union address was an act worthy of expulsion. But Flori...

How cheap can you get? Some have given lives to preserve the voting rights of Americans, some give out packs of cigarettes and bags of pork ...

After too many years of zero local and state taxation for multi-million and billion dollar corporations, mislabled as "development and ...

This is an update to yesterday's post. I noticed this story today, about a contest open to young people who make the best 30-second film...

Today, no one needs to wait to be "discovered" by a movie company in order to become a worldwide movie star. All you need is a dig...

Complaining about the various and most dubious acts of the current White House and Congressional leadership seem to be as useful and effecti...

At long last I return to posting on a regular basis - and I have several vital stories to share and an observation on the affects of gatheri...

I am almost finished with re-arranging my computer and on-line operations and should be back to normal by Monday evening if all goes well. H...

The year is bringing many changes to yours truly and so for the next few days, some of these changes mean I will not be adding any new posts...

Julie tagged me to confess/admit weird habits and again I am willing to play the meme game. Though I admit already that most of my habits s...

I've noticed it before - what type of movies usually follow the Christmas and New Year's holiday? Horror movies. I'm not sure if...