Yes, I know the first day of Summer 2010 is Monday, but Summer is here already. So ... some music for summer nights and days ahead for all o...

Well finally. Something besides the horrible news dominating the Summer of 2010. Just don't tell mom.

Senator Lamar Alexander spoke out this week on U.S. Energy issues and policies, and it's a fine example of "sound and fury signifyi...

Steve Benen at Washington Monthly notes that Tuesday's election really mean something, except when it doesn't. Democrats got exactl...

This week at Speak To Power, writer T. Sharp commented on the legislative creation of the 8th state song for Tennessee . But as I said on he...

Given the constant failure of "blowout preventers" in offshore oil wells, and a lack of technology to create reliable fail-s...

Am I the only one who can hear the damn clue phone ringing away like mad? "In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta's network of...

One of the most scathing and gleeful takedowns ever offered in a movie review was presented this week for the new sequel to the "Sex an...

A TV station scrapes the bottom with this "report" on "teenage werewolves". It's generating some hilarious online ch...

"In fact, there are three fronts. We’ve got the emissions at the bottom of the ocean. We have where the oil is coming to the surface a...

It's going to be a long and ugly summer. And it might just go on for decades. BP may soon be the Bad Word of the Decade. Steve Benen wri...

After more than 121 hours of viewing time, I'm about to finally watch the end of the TV series "Lost" , which wraps up Sunday ...

I often wonder about the things I'm wondering about in the world around me. Much of these concerns could likely just be labeled "wo...

More shameful election huckstering continues to spill out from 1st District Congressman Phil Roe and land in my email inbox -- today he offe...

An amazing story of survival on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was presented via 60 Minutes last night and is a must see and read. Mike Willi...

The Daily Beast has just released their rankings for Most Corrupt States here in the good ol' US of A. The bad news -- Tennessee ranks N...

A recent reader for Cup Of JP, Kit at Keep It Trill , has done me a great honor and included me in her awards list for blogs she enjoys and ...

The last few weeks have been too full of bad news for so many - untold destruction in the Gulf, flooding destruction in Nashville, Iceland...

A map visualizing the widespread and deadly damage from the flooding in Middle Tennessee was presented via Speak To Power: Steve Ross notes...

image via The Tennessean Floods in Middle TN have been a grim force and the devastation has claimed many lives, and there are fears the deat...