I essentially lost an entire week of writing, dear readers, and I do apologize. For the past week I was presented the opportunity to expe...

Our state will now police your pants - and pretty much all clothes worn by students in Tennessee thanks to a new law our governor has sign...

In stark contrast to the widespread awareness and opposition to the recently failed PIPA and SOPA bills, awareness of the vast and fundam...

I was sad to read of the passing of actor Jonathan Frid, best known to TV audiences as Barnabas Collins, the vampire soap opera so popula...

We are driving on the Autobahn In front of us is a wide valley The sun is shining with glittering rays The driving strip is a ...

Technology leaps ahead thanks to computer usage and internet access - though some innovators fear the strongest threat yet to all-access ope...

Some 1,600 people gathered in Burlington, VT this weekend to play some cowbell. You can never have too much cowbell - you need more cowbell...

There were some eager press reports this week proclaiming that the state legislature had just voted to lower taxes in Tennessee. The truth o...

I'd been reading about several giant corporate backers of a private nationwide organization - ALEC - which has been steadily writing ...

Gov. Haslam took the stand of not taking a stand on science education in Tennessee and has allowed a new law to go into effect which deva...

Gov. Haslam has a strategy to dodge his lack of leadership - "blame the media". R. Neal at KnoxViews calls him out: ...

via The Chattanooga Times Free Press Gov. Haslam says he'll sign into law a bill about how science is taught in Tennessee ... even...

Sticks and stones may hurt your bones but words cause permanent damage.  -- from Talk Radio The NYC school systems issued a memo to t...

 Peep raid on Bin Laden Hideout, image courtesy Washington Post   A sure sign of a society of immense luxury - a society which creates ...

I'm calling it the Goldilocks Complex - governors are doing too little or too much but precious few are doing their jobs jes' ri...

Seems Gov. Bill Haslam does not know how government works. I sent him a letter encouraging him to not sign the anti-science bill whic...

Even at the age of 2 years old, he sure knows how to have a rockin' good time. The boy just owns the floor and the entire room...

An Open Letter to Gov. Haslam and the Tennessee Legislature: As a lifelong resident of the state of Tennessee, educated in public schoo...

Grade school and high school are the academic locations Tennesseee's politicians want to use to determine the value of science and th...