An interesting post at etricities notes that numerous east and southeast TN counties have been raking in taxes far ahead of last year. Appa...

A reader requested a sample of the music of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and this clip of his famous quintet dates from about 1945, when ...

Yet another dose of some classic movies worth viewing, some DVD treasures and some classic Hollywood nonsense for this Friday. As testament ...

One of many reaction shots as Steve Colbert spoke at the recent press dinner. Many more here .

Geekish fanboy here, with some interesting news about Marvel and some great news that the original "Star Wars" trilogy is headed t...

It's May. The sun is still up and warm breezes drift through the house. I took a drive in the truck to Knox-vegas the other day with thi...

Many contrasts exist in reporting today, as many journalists have been facing death and kidnapping in the Mideast, riots ensued after some c...

After the irritation of immigration reforms and protests, a day of election primaries (still waiting in some places, and still waiting for p...

It simply feeds my natural sense of paranoia when the stats on visitors to this page record that in the last 24 hours I've been visited ...

While some Hispanic-owned businesses stayed open in Morristown, Koch Foods closed on May 1, according to WATE's report. The report note...

Sometimes it is impossible to fabricate or fictionalize the world around us when the actual daily events reach the depths featured in Reuter...

Judging by the temper of this first day in May, it's going to be a rather hot, unruly season for Summer 2006. Boycotts, walkouts, war in...

This was rather obvious to many Americans: " WASHINGTON -- President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 la...

Talk about missing opportunities - with media darlings like that li'l Katie Couric up for grabs, why didn't President Bush jump in t...

My creative writing prof waaaaaay back in college once said that the best poetry provides a "gesture of information and emotional inten...

A press release from the state's Dept. of Finance and Administration blasts a FEMA directiive to effectively end housing assistance for...

Let's just get some of the obvious movie stuff out of the way first, then it's on to the real (reel) stuff, including a crime drama ...

Some U.S. Senators are calling for the total dismantling of FEMA in favor of yet another, newer, better emergency response agency as the ne...

Slowly but surely, several bloggers in the state have been discovering the incident in Campbell County where law enforcement officers went w...

After years of study and experiments, a Florida-based company has (they say) devised a machine which allows for massive sensory and nueral ...