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It’s before midnight Friday night, my co-bloggers are asleep so I will do this when I am awake, because I don’t keep farmer’s hours. Are you a Democratic political junkie? (If you’re here, I assume the answer is YES). Then you need to go here today: jpg courtesy of Gale Jones Carson and LeftWingCracker....
House Speaker Kent Williams had a diabetic episode today in session. Here’s Woodsie’s account of the event House Speaker Kent Williams, who is diabetic, fainted and fell down this morning as he presided from the podium. A few minutes later, he came strolling down the hall toward the Legislative Plaza cafeteria, smiling and saying...
Southern Beale is writing at the Swash Zone today with this post on Eternal Laws and this nation’s rush to war. So it appears our media is reluctant to look under that rock. Our government, of course, has refused to look into the sins of the past administration. And our church leaders? The Catholic...
Long time blogger Kevin Barbieux who is the author of The Homeless Guy had a purchase of The Contributor newspaper yesterday on the streets of Nashville by Taylor Swift. If you don’t know who Taylor is, I must ask, ‘how long were you in your coma?” Anyway, she was really nice for tolerating my...
I can only order you in a very bossy manner to go read R. Neal’s analysis of CNN. And, yep, I do agree with him. Most of the 24-hour news networks now are pretty bad because many times, they are just filling space. I used to watch CNN but the turning point for me...
From the always insightful Cathy at Domestic Psychology on real life, television, meth and blogging. It’s a lot more fun to watch pretend characters answer the “what’s the price for your soul” question than to see it happening in the real world. Too many bloggers with opinions and ideas grew weary of being hungry...
The burden does get heavy. After almost twenty years with a child who doesn’t fit the mold and that same amount of time spent advocating, I get tired. It is exhausting to constantly explain to those who don’t want to understand. It makes your bones hurt to have obstacles and insults hurled at you...
With a hat tip to the Pesky Fly and NPR, The Associated Press reports the following: A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals...
I don’t think the rep will listen, but Nashville Jeff is going to tell him anyway. Let me just point something out first: No-one in the article, or anywhere else as far as I can tell, claims anything like “book burning will come next.” This is a hysterical, hyperbolic response to the situation. There’s...
The Washington Post will institute a tier system for online commentors
With a hat tip to Romenesko, WaPo ombudsman Andrew Alexander discuss their new commenting system at the Post and why they developed it: Anonymous online commenting has always been rowdy and raucous, especially when public figures are the targets. “Excellent!” exulted a Post commenter when conservative columnist Robert Novak died in August. “Hope he...
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