TVA spokesman Gil Francis says he does not think the massive mounds of toxic coal ash spilled into Roane County back in December which are n...

Some fine DVD news arrives this week -- the fourth (but hopefully not final) installment of the Futurama DVDs is about to arrive, titled ...

Rachel Maddow outlines the road blocks a minority of Senators want to keep in place in order to ... what? Keep the economy in a downward spi...

I am not convinced a legislative process in Washington can help repair the nation's economic woes - but I do know the whining and moanin...

I'm joining with a host of other Tennessee bloggers today to encourage you to help create a statewide effort to support the Democrats in...

Wallace Coleman plays the blues like a legend. I'm very happy to see that he's got two more shows here in East Tennessee - on Frida...

With a lineup that includes Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, The Beastie Boys, Elvis Costello, Nine Inch Nails, Merle Haggard, Del M...

I never thought the concept of a 'pajamas media' sounded very smart. There's some concern and some confusion among conservative ...

After years of studying the Internet, I have decided the only reason humans invented it was because the cats made us. Cat videos and cat pic...

A new year brings new joys in the explorations of the obscure, the forgotten and the just plain weird cinema. Massive amounts of new cinemat...

You may well like the product itself but as for me, I just love the word ShamWow. Pitched endlessly in TV spots as the most amazing clean-up...

It is rather sad but not very surprising that 1st District Congressman Phil Roe is relying on hardline Republican opposition to plans for a...

Despite a massive public approval of President Obama - from before election day and into tomorrow as well - the right-wing 'fear-of-ever...

While it might be tempting to blame a horrible economy for the robbery of a pizza deliveryman in upper East Tennessee, the incident seems mo...

The above pic is from a host of 35 colorful images in China as the nation celebrates the new year, a Year of The Ox, the start of year 4707...

I know much of what is spoken on the floors of legislatures state and national and even local tend to be preening and meaningless loads of n...

Actor Keanu Reeves will leap into anime if his current project continues to move forward -- the project being a live action version of the ...

It's too dang cold to blog. Sure, the constant hum of the Internet can warm your cockles, unless maybe you're still shivering from w...

I know I'm about two days older than dirt, but I cannot dredge up any memory of a previous presidential inauguration where children and ...

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. --- "I would be hon...