Cup Of Joe Powell
Friday, May 09, 2008

Camera Obscura: 'Speed Racer'; Doomsday on TCM; Call For A Better Movie Theater

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The nation's film critics are having a blast attempting to craft the words to describe the movie " Speed Racer " opening today...
Thursday, May 08, 2008

East TN Crop Circles Return, plus Other Strange Events

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A report from WVLT-TV in Knoxville says that crop circles have returned to Monroe County , close to where they were made last May. (A commen...

Comcast Considers Fees Based On Internet Usage

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Comcast is considering a cap on internet usage each month and charging additional fees if users go over the limit. Other internet service p...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Science Discovers Happy Conservatives

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With a budget of nearly 6 billion dollars, funded by your taxes, the National Science Foundation decided it would be money well spent for a ...
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News For Free

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A recent survey among the world's newspaper editors shows that most think that whether their product is available in print or online, it...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Ending Oil Subsidies vs Gas Tax Holiday

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Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly suggests a better idea than a few months of no gas taxes would be repealing the labyrinth of subsidies for...
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Abuse Common in Tennessee Justice System

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Some very damning judicial rulings in the case of death-row inmate Paul Gregory House indicate House should already have been released, but ...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

The Business Of Running Government

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There's an interesting post via MCB regarding Governor Bredesen's comments that Tennessee government and its budget must operate mo...
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Camera Obscura: 'Iron Man'; "Cloverfield'; Nashville Screenwriters

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I took my first trip out to the 18-screen Turkey Creek Pinnacle Theater to see "Iron Man" in digital projection and it nearly beca...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

What's The Best Cover of a Beatles Song?

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A video pops up on YouTube of a wee boy singing "Hey Jude" and the video shows up on the pages of MetaFilter and quick as a wink, ...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Creation Seminar is Certainly Creative

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A near-miracle is taking place as Creationists are now claiming Darwin's theory of evolution is also the theory of how the universe and ...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Court Rejects Voter ID Challenge

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By a vote of 6 to 3, the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Indiana's Voter ID law on Monday. In one sense the court left open cha...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Goodbye, Local Franchises

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AT&T gets what it wants as the state legislature caves in to their desires. Will you see decreased rates? Will they add jobs in Tenness...

The Politics of Religion

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It is not very tough to find a critical reaction to something said by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - he speaks his mind about what he believes. ...
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Weekly Best of Tennessee Blogs

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Here's the weekly wrap-up (via TennViews ) of what the good folks of Tennessee have been blogging about in the world of politics in gene...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

A Boring Talk About Art Which Shocks

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Yale art student Aliza Shvarts stirred up a real controversy with her student project, a project about abortion - her own, she claimed, some...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Camera Obscura: Worst Remake Ever, "The Incredible Shrinking Man" with Eddie Murphy

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It's a jaw-dropping, bone-dumb, chunk of stoooopid to remake "The Incredible Shrinking Man" with Eddie Murphy. And written by ...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

John McCain Is Homer Simpson's Dad?

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I like it even more because they used my favorite line from Abe Simpson. And the "Matlock" music too. Matlock!!!! (thanks to The K...

Living Fast and Senile At 30

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There's such a serene and calm quality to the madness of this quote from "1984" that DeMarCaTionVille shared today : " No...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

X-Box 360 Live Gets Local Assist

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Tune in tonight online for a new show called LAGtv, which is co-produced by my friend Jessie, and is a tri-weekly live internet broadcast ai...
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