" Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, b...

My Congressman, Republican Phil Roe, wants to cut spending - just not when it comes to tax subsidies to giant oil companies. He's marchi...

Is it education reform or is it just a slash and burn policy aimed at cutting teacher pay and union representation? The school board in Prov...

Tenacious protests challenging Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's plan to eliminate collective bargaining by teachers continued to grow a...

Live-streaming from backstage at Sunday's Oscar awards, red carpet cams, and endless online access are all set via the Academy's ma...

Tennessee - like Wisconsin and Indiana - is joining the battle against collective bargaining by unions , claiming it is a measure to reduce ...

Elected to the Tennessee General Assembly last fall, State Rep. Don Miller of Morristown has not been front and center in the news. So findi...

- Singer Billy Ray Cyrus tells GQ magazine that the Hannah Montana Show "destroyed his family" . Yet another case of how televisi...

I've lately received links to numerous short films, but the following excerpt from a new 13 minute short from Swedish filmmaker and arti...

I hope you'll take one moment to actually contact 1st District Congressman Phil Roe and tell him NOT to vote for eliminating all the fun...

On Feb. 9 th , Kentucky Republican Hal Rogers, who chairs the Appropriations Committee for the House of Representatives claimed he was gonna...

From Cairo, February 2011. It worked - Mubarak resigns presidency. The shoe ?? Oh, right, the shoe ... Some "notable shoe incidents...

I have a good excuse for not having created new posts at my normal rate. I have what could best be termed a metabolic derangement. I've ...

I'd have to turn in all my cult movie fan credentials if I failed to mourn the passing of cult cinema superstar Tura Satana, who fled th...

It appears that after many decades debating health care, insurance, and all the costs involved with medicine and doctoring and all the legis...

The real fight over tax breaks debated last fall in Congress was centered on folks who make $250,000 or above. So that's really who they...

The Tennessee Teachers Association may lose their right to collective bargaining under legislation just introduced in the state legislature,...

Plans put forth by Republicans like Rep. Doug Lamborn to eliminate all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting reveal a basic la...

Bad ideas float up and out of Hollywood so often, you'd think it was a required habit. Recently a Warner Brothers exec, Jessica Goodman ...

There's a momentary online/news-cycle of outrage 'n infamy swirling around Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen for comments he made th...