The roads which cover America pulse with our lives and our lives become reflected as the cars we take to those roads. These aren't just ...

I welcome OpenPen Media , a unique online alternative news source for East Tennessee, and happily add them to my blogroll and hope you start...

It's such a fine Spring day here in East Tennessee. I'm a sure-fire lover of this season and today also brought about a renewal of a...

The continuing failure of newspapers nationwide raises many questions, and a very random survey at the Kingsport Times News shows some clear...

"Cheap labor. Even more than race, it’s the thread that connects all of Southern history—from the ante-bellum South of John C. Calhoun ...

-- Is Glenn Beck saying mass murders like the one at Knoxville's Unitarian Church is justified? -- The NSA wants control over American...

Hello Internet , how was your weekend? Mine was fine, thanks. I have been taking some enjoyment and wonder at how the national, regional and...

I noticed a post recently at No Silence Here on the rather dubious and sadly empty-headed Defeated Conservative Conference - I mean the CPA...

As the state of Tennessee ponders passage of a whole slew of laws removing/altering women's rights and their ability to decide on whethe...

Some students at Indian Trail Middle School in Johnson City took part in a "prank" by agreeing to dropping their pencils onto the ...

It is most satisfying to see so many news and media outlets talking about writer Alan Moore's 1986 graphic novel "The Watchmen...

Layoffs and business closings in January have taken a steep toll in East Tennessee: " Kingsport’s January unadjusted unemployment rate ...

State Senator Tim Burchett was moving forward new legislation demanding protections for people and the environment from TVA regarding TVA...

Maybe I should say "Lies" rather than "Dreams" since the folks at Fox News just made up the whole story about a high spe...

The MTSU poll released Tuesday shows the state's new Republican-majority Legislature gets low approval numbers (34%) and that support fo...

I hit the wall of Stupid after reading this . And this. And this. Which meant the only response I could offer was Facepalm. (click to embig...

"A word to the wise is infuriating" -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson A fascinating collection of topics about newspapers, individual rig...

Hip-deep in the main streams of mainstream movies, there are oddities and obscurities which reveal the eerie underbelly of motion pictures. ...

One of the most imaginative American writers of science fiction, Philip Jose Farmer, passed away yesterday at the age of 91 and I gladly wri...

There was talk last fall as the Republican party fractured and fumbled their political ideas, heading straight into election defeat, that th...