I sadly found the music service I've used in the past here to embed music on my blog, Seeqpod, has gone dark, due to lawsuits, and it ma...

Are we a nation of criminals, guilty until proven innocent? The trends nationwide - and here in Tennessee - are more and more often pointing...

Sad to see the state pushing forward with plans to amend the state constitution and limit the rights of women. Worse, to see my own represen...

Way back in the long-ago times known as my childhood, if you were to visit my home and enter the rooms of either my sister or myself, you...

There are numerous stories I've been pondering on this week and I am reluctant to just post a sentence or two so instead this is sort of...

Tennessee is one of six states picked to be in a national Solar Energy Analysis project, in conjunction with The Tennessee Regulatory Agency...

Astronaut and Mission Specialist Michael Massimino - aka Astro_Mike - is making Twitter updates as a part of the current shuttle mission (w...

I had a really fine weekend camp-out with friends, an annual event we all share which has always been one of the finer things in life each t...

Just as with many other online writers, I've often noticed that some readers land on this humble and lovable page by entering some utter...

A 34-year old Briton named Ben Southall has won The Contest of All Contests -- he's going to live in a three-bedroom villa on a tropical...

I noticed via KnoxViews and Roane Views some pretty outrageous claims which accompany any buyouts of property owners suffering after that d...

The catastrophic ash spill from TVA's coal ash containment site in East Tennessee continues to see costs rise - estimates for the Decemb...

Over the past few years I've added several collections of music which you can listen to on many of the posts I've made, mostly throu...

After the popularity of the recent post Top Ten Movie Characters, I was working on a Top Ten Movie Composers/Soundtracks idea and this week ...

Specialty license plates used to be an annoying indicator of the hubris and pride of a car owner. Now, like so much else today, these plates...

( image source ) Huron Indian myth has it that in ancient times, when the land was barren and the people were starving, the Great Spirit sen...

Appearing on Legislative Chat on public television, state representative John Litz of Morristown talked about his bill to establish statewid...

Randall Brown at the Knoxville News Sentinel wisely provides the information about a group of East Tennessee high school students who have w...

Judicial guidelines, 2009 version: Farting on a sandwich and making cheese boogers, that is a felony . Torture, not a punishable crime .

"The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club." Conservative leaders like Karl Rove claim talking about whe...