The previous post has a follow-up, and it's actually good news. 20 of 21 Greene County Commissioners rejected completely a proposal fr...

It's pretty clear the Greene County Commissioners who think flying a Confederate flag is historically vital have zero knowledge of the h...

Let's do a little political talking about all the political talking. And the talking is being done by notably unqualified candidates h...

I've been so busy I missed my own blog birthday - 10 years are done and I'm now on Year 11. Yay me. Obviously The Regular Reader k...

Presidential candidate and senator Bernie Sanders says "Yes" and has prepped some legislation for it -- "[That] would indi...

If you have more than 3 moons you're a planet in my book, but Pluto is what it is - a wee dwarf planet. It looks huge in the pictures...

It has been startling to see how quickly politicians in Southern states, including Tennessee, have stepped forward to announce that now is t...

In July and August of 1991 I was relentlessly scouring as much of the island of Manhattan as I possibly could. It was an epic two weeks...

The ever-watchful and wily Southern Beale today points to reports (and the lack of them) of a 2014 4th Congressional District candidate, Rob...

Pamela Geller I'm somewhat happy to report there appears to be a theory to explain why deeply uninformed folks suffer from "ill...

image via The grim reality on the streets and in the neighborhoods of Baltimore currently stem from not simply one incident about poli...

The State's Official Gun (almost) State legislators aimed this year to define Tennessee via the designation of "Official State ...

The Tennessee Legislature deploys some logic - because so much time in public school is spent on increasing testing scores in science and ma...

Last week while wrangling with a dicey alternator in an older model pickup truck, I encountered a couple of folks from Cosby who went far...

Yes, it does seem that as the intermingling social interactions via the Internet are moving faster (tweets, tags vines, InstaBabble) I m...

And record-setting below-zero weather, too! ( The 2015 storm slammed the town of Monterey in middle Tennessee .)

One of the million or so pieces of cuneiform writing awaiting someone to decipher it. Google V.P. Vint Cerf - often tagged as one of ...

The clearest and most sane response to the loopy, hypocritical and dangerous trends in politics and media for this century has come from J...

It seems the first rule of the Tennessee Legislature on Health Care Reform is You Cant' Talk About Health Care Reform. Senator and ...

In this week's New Yorker, a fascinating and slightly disgusting story of one man who encountered a nasty little thing called Salmone...