If the Tennessee State School Board Association is teaching by example, then the lessons for our children and our 100-plus state education b...

Do people have a true physical or psychological need to invent, to create realities that might or even might never exist? And if so, why? No...

I'm sure by later today some bloggers and some in the national press might bother to actually gather more background on super-rich attor...

Read this today about an Ohio surveillance company that is "testing" some RFID implants on a couple of employees (thanks Newscoma ...

Some Americans got all twisted over the recent Cartoon Or Not To Cartoon madness of the last week or so, but the raging paranoia here at hom...

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...