The decision-making process in Tennessee government is riddled with partisan bickering and it has always been so. Perhaps we can devise a mo...

So far, the GOP and their cheerleaders have come up with lame arguments opposing Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court...

Despite the cranky defensive opinions of a neutered Vice President , the fact remains crystal clear - waterboarding is torture. One person w...

Does our nation need a new federal law so individuals can repair their own car? Yes, say advocates of the Right To Repair Act of 2009 ( HR 2...

Wrangling some music onto this page has always been of keen interest, though as I noted earlier, all the posts from the past which included ...

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...