What's the goal of TN Republicans in Congress who want to cut funding for Food Stamp programs? Their argument makes little sens...

With enrollment options for the Affordable Care Act set to start in just days, Congressman Phil Roe is pushing a very weak alternative...

The daring folks at Frightmare Manor will be open for a very special Friday the 13th sneak preview of the Halloween Screampark which h...

Thanks to some mutual friends - actor Michael Abbott Jr and producer/actor David Horton - I have been in contact with East TN filmmake...

Such immense fun this week seeing "news" readers and parents and noobs saying "Twerk", it's sooo 2010. Even the ...

  Check out this harrowing account from astronaut Luca Parmitano about an unusual and nearly deadly accident - water filling up his space h...

Cormac McCarthy's novels have found new life in movies, and his early novel " Child of God" is about to hit the festival ...

I read books.  I mean the printed-on-paper kind, the original hand held technology. If you read them too, consider how you...

This month marks the start of Year Eight for this humble and lovable blog. Blogs are not the hip thing they once were, and mine is wordy, ...

Certainty, accuracy, nailing down meaning and fact - we might understand the concept of such an idea, but achieving such may well be a...

The forced cuts in federal spending means federal public defenders must cut staff by as much as 50%, but the law demands far more expen...

It was no real surprise Chattanooga's Times-Free Press fired Drew Johnson. More surprising was his hiring in the first place. As noted...

After a few months off, I'm easing back into writing about politics and cultural trends, and the notion of an Americanized "ru...

Developers are putting together a 2 million square foot bunker where folks can avoid the Apocalypse and enjoy family fun! " We'...

The debate and discussion of Cyber War,  which has been underway for more than a decade, is murky, confusing, and of course, full of secrets...

The Supreme Court's ruling this week on collecting and storing DNA is yet another loss for American liberty - it bolsters efforts by Sta...

There are many moments when I doubt the ever-rising technology of my (our) time is fulfilling the potential, the promise, I expect. F...

Precisely two years ago on this date, I was compelled to write about a despicable and horrible reality in Tennessee and the South - the wide...

The obvious flaws in "education reform" pushed in Tennessee and other states by Michelle Rhee and her ex-husband, TN Education Com...