I do watch more than just horror movies. Really, I do. But that is the genre I like best - I like getting frightened and equally like to cre...

A graduating high school student in Maine bowed and blew a kiss during his walk across stage and then found himself in trouble with school ...

Stung hard and reeling from news about a racist email from a 20-year Republican staffer in the Tennessee Legislature , a Nashville conservat...

NOTE and UPDATE : The worst part of the story detailed below regarding the state's Republican party is captured quite well by OpenPen : ...

Good morning, afternoon or evening. I have been somewhat busy the last few days and weeks working in the actual world rather than here in th...

The future of broadband and internet development is dangerously close to becoming much less than it is now, less a public commodity and more...

It's a tragedy seeing how utterly defeated and demoralized GOP leaders continue to writhe in fear of terrorists. Congressman John Boehne...

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I added my first post today to the East TN group blog OpenPen and I hope you'll go there and read it and explore some of the other writ...

Time again to delve into the strange world of movies and stories which fascinate me and many other movie fans. The weak-hearted might want t...

A new federal report cites Tennessee as having the highest rate of people who have had depression episodes in the past year: " The repo...

Most American see much more to the tragic murder of Dr. Tiller, and how he and his staff had to endure some coordinated attacks for so very ...

The Supreme Court of Judicature in Britain has ruled on the legal question of "Is a Pringle a potato chip? " With citations rangi...

In recent weeks, former Bush administration officials have trotted out a feeble defense of the actions they took and supported to create nat...

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...