Another TVA spill from their coal-fired Widow's Creek plant in Alabama -- that makes for three "accidents" in less than a mont...

The Golden Globes will air Sunday, the People's Choice Awards loved "Dark Knight" and two Hollywood guilds provide a peek at w...

For the first time ever, a U.S. President has admitted he likes comic books and his fave is Spider-Man. So Marvel Comics is printing up a sp...

Ash spill really is not the phrase needed to describe the massive enviromental and economic disaster that struck Roane County on Dec. 22, bu...

It sounds like a punch line to a bad political joke -- "Joe The Plumber" has been hired to be a war reporter. In Israel. Yet that...

It is a dream that has been shared by lovers across the centuries – the chance to elope to exotic lands. But few would have been as bold and...

"It's like some French Foreign Legion outpost up there," says Colin McEnroe, a former capitol correspondent who who was recent...

A blog I love. The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks

Yet another reason I'm forced to admit it is better to be old than young. Also, another reason parents have to be just as tech-savvy as ...

Beverly Garland died December 5th at age 82, and though her name may not be listed among Hollywood's greatest, for me she was and is. He...

I hated reading the following entry this morning from the blogger at Life on Swan Pond after TVA ... who lives in the midst of the massive ...

The United States marked the five-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. Over four million Iraqis had fled the country or been internally disp...

Without the commitment of many bloggers, environmental activists, and the efforts of residents directly affected by the enormous disaster fr...

I mean seriously, this has been a year of just weird wrongness. With just over a day and a half left, I'm actually getting nervous about...

Nearly a week after a massive toxic coal ash spill coated hundreds of acres and waterways with over a billion gallons of sludge, officials f...

Chad, Matt and Rob have an important meeting at the office in five minutes. Rob is nowhere to be found until he runs up covered, he says, in...

The nearly 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash which surged across hundreds of acres in Roane County and into local waterways this week will...

Writers in the blogging world have been hard at work gathering and reporting information from the enormous environmental disaster which saw ...

Here is the third and final installment for Christmas music 2008 (Check out parts One and Two ). I hope you've enjoyed the tunes - and ...

Hilzoy makes some points which seem to elude not only Congress, but many average Americans : " The financial executives helped cause th...