As previously mentioned, offline living has kept me away from posting, however I do want to share some of that offline life - The followin...

Apologies again, Dear Reader and Humble Blog, for an extended absence. It's a dual whammy from being very busy working and utterly st...

The Hateful Eight will eventually be classified as one of director Tarantino's most outspoken political movies (even more than the on...

I don't know that I ever heard of Tennessee State Rep. Andy Holt prior to his being fined for a.) operating without a permit while b....

2016 is bringing back one of my favorite people to Knoxville, artist Laurie Anderson, part of another impressive lineup at the Big Ears musi...

The words "gun control" are all around us this holiday season, but the real debate here is about reducing massacres of innocen...

Compassion leaves you vulnerable. Civil War leaves you vulnerable. Freedom leaves you vulnerable. Terror leaves you vulnerable. T...

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...