There are fans and then there are fanatics - fans seek and watch and talk about movies, fanatics force life to accommodate their movie addic...

So says Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin in a vice-presidential debate. And yeah, we know, gosh-darnit. You betcha'. We know. Does wink...

A new fee schedule means a sliding scale will be used to charge you to view and/or copy public records, thanks to a decision from the state....

Just a few weeks ago, one of the people most likely to be on the news was Senator Hillary Clinton. Not many in media ask or seek her views t...

Examining the $700 billion proposal to prop up failing/failed businesses and investments is a rugged task, and is Congress capable of making...

A scorching rip into the Palin selection as V.P. and her splashy arrival onto the political scene is presented by writer Matt Taibbi and wre...

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A new Cabinet-level postion focusing on copyright infringement sailed thru the Senate last week -- " U.S. lawmakers approved the creat...

I saw a story on WATE about the destruction of the old cafeteria building and on the site of the former Morristown College. But check out t...

Via TennViews : The "toxic debate derivatives" edition of the weekly Tennessee progressive blog roundup with a look at what th...

This week marked the 50th anniversary of the NASA agency just as the Chinese made their first successful spacewalk and as the U.S. Senate w...

I had to post this ASAP. I certainly can't recall any such event taking place in my lifetime in East Tennessee -- a debate between the c...

A most ambitious internet project officially started today at Cherries Internet Cafe with live web TV shows from their open-to-the-public in...

Please accept my thanks for all your condolences and support . I'm putting up a quick post this cool September morning - especially sinc...

No posting here for a while as my sister and her family and all of our families are mourning the death of her son Alex who has died at the a...

Short-term rationing, targeted in the Southeast, is being promoted by John Hofmeister , former president for Shell Oil. " America is su...

Once again - filled with panic, fear and a lack of information - the Bush administration and members of Congress and finance lobbyists are a...

While the rest of online world will be urging you to keep this day as 'talk like a pirate day', this year I've decided it would ...

His name is hardly a household word -- but the words and music Norman Whitfield made for so many innovative and historic performers are par...

A seldom reported fact, actually a host of them, which clearly show how much Gov. Palin fits into the Bush-Cheney style of government is cov...