One of the best aspects of people is the way we make writers and artists part of our lives. This week, we lost a great friend and a member...

It's the season for Advice to the Graduate. We live in a time when those old and reliable models for careers don't work so well (i...

I'm happy to announce that a longtime friend and colleague, Michael Abbott Jr., has his most recent movie closing this year's Ca...

Evelyn Bryan Johnson, who passed away last week at the age of 102, was more than the most famous person in the Morristown-Jefferson City ...

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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 ...