From the NYTimes: " For religious skeptics, the “BibleThumper” iPhone app boasts that it “allows the atheist to keep the most funny ...

If there is one, just one, good reason for the Senate Republicans to refuse to allow congressional investigators to have subpoena powers as ...

Things I never expected anyone to say -- " Al Gore is a 'crazed sex poodle' . It does not help the accuser's case that she ...

So is there some new thang where the boot scootin' dancers decide to go all crunk to a Brad Paisley hit?? I did not know that. I was hop...

West TN Rep. Marsha Blackburn joins the looney circle - again - linking hands with the deeply strange Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota to ...

Debates between Hamblen County Sheriff Candidates followed by debate between Hamblen County Mayoral Candidates will be held tonight at 6 p...

Time to check in with the Apocalypse Meter, aka the ongoing gallons-of-oil count via this handy ticker from PBS. Worth noting that when I po...

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...