Back in the mid-1980s media mogul Ted Turner was rightly roasted and grilled for unleashing a horde of classic movies which had been "c...

Whatever made Tennessee Senator Tommy Kilby (D) think that a state law banning ownership of one particular breed of dog, a pit bull, a good ...

I'm willing to bet cash money there was a super-secret provision in the surrender agreement signed at the end of the Civil War. What was...

Maybe it was that bad reality series on the Sci-Fi Channel with Stan Lee. Maybe it's because we live in the 21st Century. Whatever the r...

Imagine your identity has been stolen - not just once - but four times and every time the same company, Sprint, is involved and sends you ...

I've been seeing lots of very deceptive - or at least misleading - news coverage about a science experiment where claims are made that a...

Today and for the last few weeks I've been awed by the powerful friendships and the compassion evident as folks from all over work fierc...

Time again for a roundup of Tennessee blogs, via TennViews , but first a few notes on this regular weekly feature. And don't expect to s...

Time for you to speak up, dear and patient readers via this Seriously Unscientific Survey. I constantly provide my thoughts here and now I a...

East Tennessee helped filmmakers capture the legendary criminal exploits of John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and the rise of Hoover's FB...

The Supreme Court heard arguments about Indiana's Voter ID case yesterday, and as Lyle Denniston of the SCOTUS Blog points out, there wa...

Question: What's the first sign of the return of the TN State Legislature? Answer: A flurry of goofy, useless and grandstanding bills fr...

A fine bit of satire of the presidential race was delivered via young Ralph Wiggum on this week's episode of The Simpsons. It's real...

It's good to see that voters - not the collection of talking pundit bobble heads - still have the most authority when it comes to the pr...

Paranoid much? Then Mosheim may be the town for you. A piece of luggage that was dropped off by a bus line and started to leak something ora...

As the 2008 CES gets underway, Microsoft's Bill Gates lets us peek at what he'd like to do since he is stepping down from his compan...

Do you, as an American citizen, have a Constitutional Right to vote? The answer may depend on how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted (some...

Here's this week's list, via TennViews : A "corn fed" edition the TennViews weekly liberal blog roundup, with Iowa caucus...

What happens when Groucho Marx plays God, Jackie Gleason takes LSD at Alcatraz and Harry Nilsson sings the movie's credits? Well you are...

It will be bleak. The strike by writers will become most prominent in the next few weeks, as TV broadcasters attempt to return to non-holida...