Last year a spy movie franchise based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series hit movie watchers with a cornucopia of paranoia and high t...

Some faux drama brought out by Sen. Rand Paul wailing about the use of surveillance or armed drones ignored a basic fact - U.S. states want...

Taking Tennessee taxpayer funds away from public schools and giving those funds to private schools - whether you call it "vouchers...

Business owners in TN are facing new orders via the State - employees with handgun conceal permits are allowed to use their vehicles to stor...

A company called Apigee, which makes mobile apps and other APIs (application program interface), conducted a recent survey which boasts that...

For many years I have offered this joke about food - "Food is addictive. I started eating at a very young age and I still do it, someti...

A recent outrage du jour: the fiscal meltdown of the Senate haircut emporium, promoted by email and 'news' reports: "Sinc...

Valentine's Day tours of a sewage treatment plant were a massive hit with visitors last year, so romantics get more of the same this ye...

Someone hacked into local Emergency Broadcast Systems in Montana and Michigan to warn viewers that dead bodies were coming back to life as Z...

Inevitable? What happens when you create a mash up of toys, presidents, and Hollywood monsters ...

The daring legislature of Tennessee is pushing for a State Constitutional Amendment to ban a state income tax despite the fact the current ...

Some months ago I learned that food additives are beyond bizarre. And despite consumer labels on products we seldom know what we are actuall...

Children in need are being threatened in legislation from Knoxville Senator Campfield. He wants to withhold food stamps from families if a c...

Again my congressman, Dr. Phil Roe, and other congressmen are doing it wrong. He has joined others in proposing a law that says if Congres...

I bring sad news today. The only and official dog mascot for this blog, Sophie, has passed away. Full name, Sophie Belle Mooney, was rescu...

Moving at Internet speed yesterday, the Sports website Deadspin revealed Notre Dame's football hero Manti Te'o did not actually have...

I watched in amazement a C-Span coverage of a public hearing on gun violence aired this weekend recorded in Santa Rosa, CA. For about 2 an...

Being wrong is easy. Often we "learn" the wrong information, or just interpret our experiences through a dim understanding of the ...

The tragic shooting in Newtown, CT provides at the least an opportunity for discussion and debate about common sense gun laws, mental ...