May 27, 2005

A Non-Blogging Day

Sorry for the lack of blogging today, the day after the arrest of four Tennessee state legislators on federal corruption charges. There's plenty of news coverage and probably lots of bloggage about it, but I haven't had the time to cover it here. So look on my blogroll for the Nashville and Tennessee blogs and click those - most if not all will have at least something on the Tennessee Waltz scandal. Matt White has a very valuable and perceptive post, as does Rob Huddleston and I suspect most of the rest do as well.

By the way, yesterday I predicted newly indicted state Sen. John Ford would blame the investigation on racism within 30 days. Well, Ford's fellow alleged corrupt politician and co-indictee former state Sen. Roscoe P. Coltrane Dixon, D-Memphis, got there first, despite the fact that two of the lawmakers indicted are, uh, white, and half the team of U.S. attorneys involved in the probe were, uh, black.

As for ongoing media coverage of the scandal, I have a list on my left sidebar of Nashville print and broadcast media websites. They'll be on the story like mud on a pig.

But I can't today because... to be blunt, I've had a crappy day.

My wife had to go to the doctor early this morning (still dark) for chest pain - the ekg was normal - and then two previously scheduled doctor's appointments during the day. And I've experienced something new last night and again this afternoon: a short but intense period of vertigo. Room spinning thataway, floor spinning the other way and doing the shimmy shimmy shake like a circus performer's spinning plate, me feeling like I'm tipping over to the left right.

I'm headed to the doctor shortly. Maybe I'll do like Glenn Reynolds and take my laptop and digital camera and blog the experience. Hey, if they do a brain scan and I can get a digital image from it, I might post it. Brain blogging. Could be a new fad.

More later...

UPDATE: It's later. Sadly, no brain scan to post.
Diagnosis: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.