Economic turmoil whirls about the planet these days, and the best part of such dire times is that it offers a chance, for those who seek bet...

I do take much pleasure in writing about movies -- as this holiday-shortened week offers numerous Camera Obscura posts on this humble and lo...

Just a quick mention here on the movie-filled Friday post (more movie news throughout the day because like you I am sorta busy today). Recen...

Times are a bit lean here at the Compound this fall, but not so lean to not be thankful as required by the upcoming National Holiday. I do m...

"Scandal is our growth industry. ... scandals metastasize, ramify, self-replicate, clogging the cable news shows and the blogosphere an...

There are several great things about the movie "Twilight" opening to massive, adoring crowds this weekend. It's making vamp t...

A Mattel-made doll "praises Islam" and even hails Satan - according to some parents in East Tennessee. The "Little Mommy Cud...

A follow-up to yesterday's post on the ripoff hitting Tennessee colleges from the RIAA -- costing taxpayers millions in college funds a...

The state's colleges and universities just got burned, forced by a new state law to shell out millions of dollars to police computer net...

The newly elected Republican majority in the Tennessee legislature is far more interested in playing Moral Guidance Counselor than in actual...

According to one East Tennessee blogger, God will call us all to judgement and tops on his list will be whether or not you voted for Obama f...

And lo, first there came forth the cute Cat picture, asking Can I Has Cheezeburger?, and it ruled the Internets with billions of page views....

I wonder if other federal agencies will follow the lead of FCC's Kevin Martin. Martin (apparently in a decision he hid from his own agen...

Talk radio is bad for you, makes you feel bad about yourself, and success depends on a show's ability to make you angry and miserable. S...

With typical disconnected and racially-charged perspectives - a normal tactic from Tennessee GOP Spokesmodel Bill Hobbs - there appears now...

Everyone seems to be super-paranoid about something called media bias, a nagging fear that somehow all the information we get via newspapers...

Pelosi Calls For US Auto Bailout -- alternate report: Final Days of Bush Presidency and Everything Must Go Sale!! Saudi Arabia Sues Cigarett...

The sculpture you see here is by Tony Dow, who is known worldwide for playing Wally, brother to The Beaver, on the old "Leave It To Bea...

While the chattering cable news folk jabber about the fact that a meeting is taking place today between the current and the next president, ...

In the last few months, shocking and sudden shooting attacks have taken place in a church and a mall in Knoxville. On Sunday, as reported in...