Cup Of Joe Powell
Friday, December 04, 2009

Another Idiot Politician In Tennessee - Meet Mayor Russell Wiseman

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I know every state in the nation has some lackluster, bone-dumb and ignorant clucks who somehow skeez the public into accepting the idea the...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Media Moguls Call Online Writers 'Parasites' and 'Vampires'

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The FTC invited speakers to talk about journalism in the online age and got an earful. One of the speakers was Arianna Huffington, creator o...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

The Way to Defeat Terrorism - Send In The Gossip Hounds

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Pretty sickening the way the media has salivated all over Tiger Woods and an apparent affair he had. I've always noticed how the media s...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Cormac's Knoxville Typewriter Being Auctioned

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Christie's will auction an Olivetti Lettera 32 portable typewriter on Friday - the very typewriter which writer Cormac McCarthy bought i...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Happiness Without Twitter

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I gave up the Twitter account I had started a few years back. If I am pondering on some words to stab into place on the Internet, the place ...
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Outrageous

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Happy Thanskgiv -- Oh Never Mind

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A Thanksgiving re-enactment and mini-history from some kids, via Landline TV.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Bob Dylan Does Christmas?

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And I sure do like it. Polka. Party. Christmas. Fighting .... What's not to like? Watch the full video right here.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Religion In America 2009

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NOTE: Cathy notes in the comments that Aunt B.'s post today on America and religion is decidedly more crazy-dangerous than weird.
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Morristown Bankruptcy Looms Large

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City officials have been trying hard to duck and cover from massive waste and abuse in taxing and spending and there seems to be no end in s...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Sarah Palin and The 'Twilight' Cult

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I think there's a strong link between the popularity of the "Twilight" vampire novels and movies and Alaska's Sarah Palin....
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Congress Dances To Billionaire Fiddlers

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Congressional debate on most legislation is often mingled with information provided by lobbyists - hardly a news flash to folks who follow p...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

When The Legend Becomes Fact, Print The Legend

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A comedy show is often the thorn which punctures the party balloons which masquerade as "news". Jon Stewart this week popped the d...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

UT Football Salaries Vs. Academic Cuts

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A report in the USA Today - which is often to newspapers what Highlights magazine is to homework - has a story tracking the ever expanding ...
Monday, November 09, 2009

Tea Party Protesters Depend on Government-Run Healthcare

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As a few thousand folks lined up to hear the Republican congressmen (most of whom were absent from actual committee votes on public policy) ...
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Meet Michael Alvis and Buy His Book

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I've been most fortunate living here in East TN to have made so many good friends with folks who are also talented artists. It might see...
Friday, November 06, 2009

Camera Obscura: 'War, Inc." Rips Outsourced Warfare; Sundance Festival In Tennessee

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Creating a satire on your own culture is a doubled-bladed dagger. Satirists seldom become lionized or praised for their efforts as pointing ...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

The Dick Armey Model - Corruption for Cash

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Former congressional leaders who turn into lobbyists and organizers for "grassroots" organizations usually become lackluster seeke...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Compassion for Celebrity Tea Party Loss

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A quick politics check after yesterday's Mediocre Tuesday elections: Republicans elected two governors, Democrats elected two Congressm...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

The Myth of The Celebrity Tea Party Race In New York's 23rd District

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The Celebrity Tea Party wing of the GOP is trying hard to make one congressional race in New York mean something , anything and as always th...
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