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Ahh … it’s the end of Hump Day where beer is eyed greedily and the light at the end of the week’s work tunnel has suddenly come into sight. As it goes for us pesky bloggers, we like to link to other pesky bloggers and to news stories that caught our eye. As it...
Oh 106th General Assembly, it’s so good to see you finally leaving. Don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, as my long-deceased grandmother would say. Introspection is such a wonderful thing. So, let’s see. What did you do for hard-working Tennesseans this year? Now reporters will start putting together...
First, from the always quote-worthy Sean Braisted. So, the Southerners are getting their panties in a wad once again, though this time instead of dragging the nation into a costly and bloody war, so far they just seem to be threatening legal action (always preferable). In 1860 South Carolina and others left the Union...
Southern Female Lawyer talks Clarence Thomas, judicial activism and a single-payer system. She does not mince words nor does she stutter. I think we should have a single-payer system. I believe the Constitution grants Congress the authority to enact such a system. More importantly, I think that in a capitalist society, the Government has...
Who is going to help an elderly Alzheimer’s patient when facilities have made it clear that they don’t want him? Richard Peterson is a difficult case for his three daughters. When care facilities threw him out for being ‘mean’ with the disease, he eventually was arrested. Read their story. I am warning you, it...
Is Lincoln Davis going to vote for health care? Is he not? View From the Cumberlands has the story.
We have moved with the speed of light into Daylight Savings Time, where we crabbily move forward to give us another hour of light each day, however, it is really gray outside this morning so we just gave us another 60 minutes of Seasonal Affective Disorder. I think the consensus is bring on spring....
Dan Lehr compares real-life health insurance issues with the problems that Jim and Pam had last night on The Office. Granted many of these situations were played to the fullest for comedic tension. And that’s as it should have happened – it would have been far less entertaining if the writers of the Office...
Jack, who has a blog at The Tennessean and is admittedly in his bio at member of the Rutherford County Democrats, is not happy about Congress right now to where he’s even broken it down for his readers. His definition of Congress? Here it is: C = “Confused” which means “to associate by mistake”...