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I wrote on Monday about the Republican attack on the 14th Amendment. It seems that now the GOP has another reason, other than immigration, to paint a target on the back of the 14th Amendment. According to the Huffington Post and other media outlets, a Federal judge has ruled that California’s Prop 8, which...
From the Presser from the AARP: Tennessee will be the focus of a lot of attention Thursday, when voters go to the polls to choose candidates for crucial elections that will affect our future. But it’s also the final day that Tennesseans affected by the May floods can apply for assistance from the Federal...
A memorial service for former University of Memphis and Memphis Grizzlies basketball player, Lorenzen Wright will be held today at 1pm at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. Here’s the coverage from the Commercial Appeal: Several prominent members of the basketball community are expected to speak, including Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley and former Tiger Elliot...
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It’s hot. Damn hot. It’s “steal a popsicle from a toddler” hot. Well, maybe it’s not that hot. Yesterday, I was in a hot warehouse with no air conditioning all afternoon. It sucked. Today will be similar. There was a bit of relief late in the afternoon. Maybe I was delirious, but it seemed...
I’ve been a posting fool today y’all. Actually, I started writing last night, but I shouldn’t pull the veil back too far, you might see all my secrets. Anyway, as I am a fairly violent typist, my fingers are killing me. What I mean by violent, is that I type very hard on the...
Since the first reports of the Deepwater Horizion disaster in the Gulf there have been questions about the safety of fish coming from the region. Now the government has cleared some fish caught from the region based on human smell tests. Seriously? Here’s a report from the Kingsport Times News: Despite splotches of chocolate-colored...
Election day is just two days away and the campaign is heating up. Candidates are out working to get their supporters out, there’s more news than you can shake a stick at, and Election Commissions all over the state are making their final preparations to the deluge of voters on election day. Yesterday the...
The problem with writing a post about Happy Hour on your lunch break is the cruel reality that you’re still half a day away from Happy Hour. Then there are things that happen between the time I’m writing this and when it’s going to post, like, oh I dunno, the 3pm presser with Willie...
Just to prove how intent Senate Republicans are in turning the United States into a backwater of patchwork state laws, they’ve picked their new enemy, the 14th Amendment. Under the guise of an attack on illegal immigration, Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Lindsey “Huckleberry Hound” Graham (R-SC) have hatched a plan to go after...
Turns out, ending those tax cuts only negatively impacts people who make more than $300,000. Who knew? Oh yeah, just about everyone. Check out Southern Beale for the money quote.