Miscellaneous:

A Tale of Two Congressmen, September 02, 2005
What did U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tennessee, do in response to Hurricane Katrina? He issued a stream of press releases criticing the Bush administration and calling for President Bush to call Congress into session to deal with the disaster. And then, when President Bush did exactly that, so the House could pass legislation allocating $10.5 billion to Katrina disaster relieve, Ford didn't show up for work. What did U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, do...

Katrina: How You Can Help, September 01, 2005
Much of the blogosphere today is focused on Katrina relief, and Glenn Reynolds has posted a looooooooong list of bloggers' recommended charitable organizations. My recommendation is simple: Give to the American Red Cross, which knows how to do massive relief ops, and then find out if your church, like many, is raising funds. Many churches are connected in some way to an established church-related relief organization such as Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief, or Southern Baptist...

Today's Lunchtime Links, August 18, 2005
Via Donald Sensing, I found this wonderful answer to Cindy Sheehan's question of why her son died in Iraq. It is a very long essay, but one that you really should read, and should forward to anyone you know who opposes the Iraq war. By the way, not all military moms agree with Cindy Sheehan – and some of them are headed to Crawford, Texas, to let President Bush know that. Also today: Bob Krumm...

Tre Target, August 17, 2005
State House Minority Leader Tre Hargett, R-Bartlett, will resign from the state legislature next month and become a lobbyist for Pfizer. Here is the Tennessean story. Hargett, who will oversee lobbying for Pfizer in Tennessee and Alabama, is getting a lot of criticism, especially as Hargett has backed the so-called "revolving door" bill that would mandate a one-year delay between being a lawmaker and lobbying the legislature. Of course, some of the outrage is coming...

Today's Lunchtime Links, August 17, 2005
Just a few today. Matt White wonders if the Tennessee GOP State Executive Committee will take Van Hilleary up on his dare and vote to kick him off the committee. ...Jonathan Rummel speculates about who will replace Tre Hargett as Minority Leader in the state House. ...And Jeremy Tunnell emails to draw attention to Students for Saving Social Security, where he is running the effort's Internet outreach programs, including its blog. Tunnell was part of...

Today's Lunchtime Links, August 12, 2005
Mike Hollihan is one of Memphis' best, hard-working and most interesting bloggers. He also faces various obstacles as readers of his know well. One obstacle right now: His computer might be dying. You can't blog without a computer. He has a PayPal button. I've already hit it. You know what to do. ...Add Rob Huddleston to the list of bloggers who will be live-blogging Justice Sunday II in Nashville this weekend. Welcome to the 2...

Today's Lunchtime Links, August 11, 2005
Wally Bangs celebrates one year of blogging by looking back at some of his best stuff. It's probably the only spot on the entire Internet that mentions Glenn Reynolds, Suzanne Vega and Johnny Ramone in one spot. Wait, now there's two. Bangs offers "a big THANK YOU to everyone who reads this blog" and adds, "I promise to get better at this blogging deal if you promise to keep stopping by." ... From Newsweek, Jane...

Lunchtime Links, August 10, 2005
It's lunchtime and I'm again at Bongo Java for the grilled Bongo Gobbler sandwich and the free wi-fi. The ratio of customers to laptops is about 2:1. ... Shaun Groves's song "Bless the Lord" from his new White Flag CD is one of my current favorites on Christian radio - and also a joy to sing live at church. Groves has a blog, called Schlog. Check it out here. Shaun's blog doesn't get enough traffic...

I'm Back, July 31, 2005
Well, I had loads of fun guest-blogging over at NashvilleIsTalking.com. I've never guest-blogged before, and I gotta tell ya, it's an interesting experience. A few of the 24 posts I posted Saturday and Sunday were identical to what I would have posted here - I'll probably copy some of those here tomorrow - but most were things I'd only write for that blog, given that my role there was, in part, to highlight various Nashville...

Bongo Blogging, July 29, 2005
After several days of oppressive heat that kept me inside as much as possible - limiting my lunch options - it's a perfectly perfect day , so I walked to Bongo Java for lunch - and free wi-fi. Every third person here is using their laptop while lunching or sipping one of Bongo's java creations. I stopped drinking coffee around Thanksgiving of '04, but I still enjoy a good coffee shop. I recommend the Bongo...

Break Time, July 15, 2005
Andrew Sullivan is rattling his tip jar in July again. You know what that means, don't you? He's probably going to take August off. By the way, don't let my meager blog output of today and yesterday stand in the way of making my tipjars jingle. I promise not to take a whole month off if you do......

Rolled, July 13, 2005
The retail tire business is a scam. We're about to put four new tires on my wife's Mercury Mountaineer. I called two local tire-sellers for prices on the exact same tires, installed, with tax and everything. At the first place, they said the tires with white lettering cost $30 more than the same tires in blackwall. At the second place, the lady I spoke to said the blackwall tires were about $20 more apiece than...

Customer Service Rant, July 05, 2005
My wife and daughter are on a plane this afternoon to Minnesota for a few days. They're flying American Airlines from Nashville to Chicago to Rochester, Minn. My daughter is seven, but for some reason American put her in the first group of passengers to board and my wife in the third. Or maybe it was my wife in the first group and my daughter in the third group - the cellphone connection was a...

I'm Baaaaack, June 25, 2005
...I'm back from Memphis, happily. None of the other candidates for the U.S. Senate from Tennessee have yet responded to my questions re the Kelo decision since I received responses from Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary. I'll be sending the campaigns and/or offices of candidates Harold Ford Jr., Rosalind Kurita, Beth Harwell and Bob Corker another email on Monday to remind them. Limited blogging until then....

Traveling..., June 24, 2005
....most likely no blogging today... traveling... the Extended Stay America hotel near the Wolfchase Galleria Mall in the Memphis area is the worst hotel I've ever stayed at. They screwed up our reservation in every possible way, gave our suite away, then offered us a smaller room not large enough for a family of four, with one "double" bed that was about an inch wider than a twin, and a "fold-out sleeper sofa" that was...

Nonpartisan Offer, June 21, 2005
Attention new Tennessee political bloggers: You can now advertise your site here at BillHobbs.com - and get your site in front of 30,000 unique visitors per month - for as little as $15 a month. The lower Blogads strip on my blog's left side column, currently empty, is now priced at $10 per week, $15 per two weeks, $20 per month or $45 for three months. All you need is an image (150 pixels wide,...

Linked In, June 08, 2005
Here is my not-yet-finished LinkedIn profile. You have to be a member of LinkedIn to see it....

Two Score and One Year Ago..., June 02, 2005
Looks like I'm not the only blogger celebrating a birthday today......

Numerology, May 31, 2005
I turn 41 on the day after tomorrow. Somehow, nearly two decades have passed since I finished college and nearly a quarter-century since I finished high school. Argh. If it wasn't for having a beautiful and brilliant wife and the two smartest, best-looking children on planet earth, I'd be seriously bummed. You can cheer me up here or here....

Interviewed..., May 17, 2005
I was interviewed recently for a story about blogging that will run in the LifeWay publication Christian Single, available at LifeWay stores and many Baptist churches, The story is supposed to run in the October issue. Gotta love the instantaneous nature of print media....

Screaming Through, May 16, 2005
Hal Runkel, author of the parenting book ScreamFree Parenting, which is advertised on this site, will be Tuesday and Wednesday for broadcast media appearances and a book-signing. Runkel will be on Tennessee Mornings on Fox 17 Tuesday at 6:45 a.m.; on Talk of the Town, WTVF Channel 5 Tuesday at noon, and the Mix Morning Show, 92.9 WJXA-FM at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Runkel also will be doing a book signing at Borders, 2501 West End...

MOVE On, May 13, 2005
Glenn Reynolds notes that today is the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the headquarters of the violent MOVE cult in Philadelphia by Philadelphia police, resulting in 11 dead and 61 row-houses burned. I was in college on May 13, 1985, watching it on TV, watching the city in whose suburbs I grew up become a city that dropped a bomb on its own people. Seven years earlier, I also was watching live TV news...

Irony at the AARP, April 25, 2005
The AARP says one reason it opposes Social Security reform is that the personal accounts proposed by the Bush administration "come with a host of risks. The stock market goes down as well as up, and sometimes it stays down for quite awhile. Not every individual or every fund earns a lot of money; many have returns well below the average return." Yet, as blogger Mark Rose notes:The AARP also encourages its members to participate...

Target: Blogger, April 24, 2005
Target is looking to hire a new head of media relations, and the job description is rather interesting: They want a PR person who has experience with blogs....

A South Park Republican, April 20, 2005
Light blogging today - I'm horrendously busy. However, not too busy to go to this website and create my own South Park Self Portrait....

The Marketplace of Ideas, April 13, 2005
I had a good time speaking to the Nashville chapter of the American Marketing Association today at their monthly luncheon. Topic: marketing via blogging. They seemed to enjoy it - and there were lots of good questions afterwards. It was good to see Shaun Carrigan, founder and owner of NetContent, where I used to work. The online content company provides a number of services, including automated monitoring of online news for clients seeking to track...

A Cingular Offer, April 11, 2005
If you are planning to get cellphone service from Cingular, please email me first and I'll tell you how to do so and get $25 back from Cingular. Now, back to our regularly scheduled blogging......

Speaking Engagement, March 31, 2005
I'll be speaking to the Middle Tennessee chapter of the American Marketing Association during their monthly luncheon April 13 at the Maxwell House Hotel . Details here....

Take That, Osama, March 30, 2005
I haven't written anything for my satirical site, Osama's bin Bloggin', since June 1, 2002, but it still ranks sixth in a Google search for "bin laden website." And every word on that blog is as true as the stuff on the current number one search result....

Segway Segue, March 30, 2005
A post I wrote about Segways six months ago drew a new comment today. Check it out....

Thank You, March 21, 2005
To each of you who have dropped a donation in my PayPal or Amazon tip jar lately, or supported this site by shopping via the Amazon links, I say, "Thank you." It is very gratifying and encouraging when readers appreciate the work I do enough to make a donation....

Toddler Blogging, March 16, 2005
My son typed his first blog entry today: k '''''][ bnnbb mbmbmmbmbmbmbmmbmmbbmmmmbmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............... nm m 9y 99n iiiiiiii909999 hhhhhhhhuuu hiu9 y8y88y8y88y888y8y8y8y8yy88y8y88y8y8yy88y nn bjun 8hj iuyuuuuu y 8u8 hjuj9 9999 b bjjjnjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mmmmmmmmmm mnj Amazing. Only two and a half and already making more sense than Nancy Pelosi....

A Promise, March 13, 2005
I can't predict the future but I know where I'll be on August 12-13, 2005. Here. Has anyone ever live-blogged one of these great events?...

Flush This Idea, March 11, 2005
Soon, Floridians may have to pay extra taxes just to go to the bathroom. There are a million joke possibilities in this story but I'm not going to go there....

Get a $250 iTunes Gift Certificate or an iPod For One Dollar, March 10, 2005
I advertise this daily because it is a great deal. You really can get $250 worth of music from iTunes - or a brand-new 20Gb Apple iPod or 4Gb iPod Mini- for just one dollar. It's not a scam. Click here to learn how. I already have received a free iPod via this offer. *Offers at FreeiPods.com are subject to change....

Howard Dean Should've Read It, March 08, 2005
HobbsOnline has just started carrying an ad for ScreamFree Parenting, which is both a book and a whole program aimed at teaching parents a better way to raise children. I know some of the people involved with the project and, on their reputation, recommend the book. Click their ad and you can download the first chapter of the book for free. Also, the ScreamFree folks are coming to Nashville in late March to hold a...

Don't Quit - Blog!, March 06, 2005
Via Lance Frizzell, I learn that Carrie Ferguson, one of the best writers at The Tennessean, has quit her day job (after 16 years as a journalist) in order to be full-time mom to her toddler daughter. Ferguson was not only one of the best reporters at the paper, she was one of the nicest people there, at least back when I worked there for about 18 months in the mid-1990s. Carrie, you should start...

A Wired Weekend, February 27, 2005
Normal blogging will resume Monday. I've spent much of this weekend dealing with all sorts of wires and wireless gizmos. We recently dumped Comcast as our TV and Internet provider and MCI as our phone service and went with Bellsouth, BellSouth DSL and DirecTV. Add to it a new DVD player for the playroom, and a TV that's so old it doesn't accept the standard three-plug RCA jacks, requiring me to install an RF modulator...

Blogger: Can You Spare A Dime?, February 25, 2005
A good blogger need$ your help. And, c'mon, any blogger who can write a Senate race analysis as definitive as this one deserves a $5 or a $10 or whatever you can spare......

Lance On Radio, February 21, 2005
Lance Frizzell's appearance on the Teddy Bart's Roundtable radio show can be heard here today. Look for the link on the left side of the page, or find it later in the show's audio archives, which date back to July 1, 2004. Frizzell's fellow guests on the show include Sue Rankin, a former special counsel to Senator Bill Frist, and Bill Ivey, former National Endowment for the Arts Chairman. In today's show, listen for the...

Get an iPod for $1, February 15, 2005
If you haven't signed up yet for the FreeiPod offer, you're missing a great opportunity. If you come here regularly, you've probably noticed the Free iPod ad, and are wondering if it's a scam or a real offer. I know by experience that it is a real offer, as I explained the other day, and you really can get a free iPod. I did. The process is simple. You register at FreeiPods.com, complete one offer,...

Free iPods Math, February 11, 2005
If you come here regularly, you've probably noticed the Free iPod ad, and are wondering if it's a scam or a real offer. I know by experience that it is a real offer, as I explained the other day, and you really can get a free iPod. I did. The process is simple. You register at FreeiPods.com, complete one offer, and then get five people to do the same. If you get five, you get...

Mental Ward, February 10, 2005
I haven't been writing about it, but there's a flap involving University of Colorado ethinic studies professor and fake Native American Ward Churchill, who apparently said some atrociously offensive and borderline insane things about the victims of the September 11 attacks on America. If you need more information about Churchill, I suggest you check out PirateBallerina.com as they seem to have compiled quite a lot of it. Also, here's the results of a search of...

Catching Up, February 07, 2005
If you read the Chicago Sun-Times this morning, or Instapundit, you learned about this today. Or... you could have learned how Saudi Arabia is spreading the bigotry and hatred of jihad via American mosques and Islamic centers a week ago, by reading HobbsOnline....

Free Free, Get Them Free, February 07, 2005
We joined the iPod cult over the weekend. iPods are great. Free iPods are even better, and my wife loves her new gold iPod Mini, which we got for free via FreeIPods.com. Honestly, when I first heard of FreeIpods.com I figured it must be a scam, but after reading several favorable press stories about it in Wired News, the New York Times and elsewhere confirming it was legit, I signed up and ran an ad...

Ouch, January 07, 2005
Stephen Green shreds a Paul Krugman column. A must-read....

Tsunami Relief Art Auction, January 05, 2005
Cox & Forkum is auctioning off the original artwork for this cartoon to raise money for tsunami disaster relief. The bid is already at $350. The bidding ends at noon CST on Friday, January 7. You bid by placing your bid in the comments below their blog post here....

Badabing Badabang Badaboom, January 04, 2005
Outside my office window, blasting is continuing at the construction site for a new academic building. Currently, construction crews are blasting almost daily and scooping out huge amounts of rock in preparation for a 350-car underground parking garage. The shot below was taken immediately after the explosion, which pushed up a mountain of rock and dirt like a giant and very loud JiffyPop popcorn. This is what it looked like as the explosion was underway....

Scanning the Blogosphere, January 04, 2005
Glenn Reynolds answers a question I was on the verge of asking about the options for getting old 35mm slides scanned into digital files. Related: Does anyone have any experience with and reviews of this service or the one Glenn mentions?...

Sounds Crunchy, January 03, 2005
Fans recycle cell phones into food for area's needy. And if you eat too much, there's rollover....

Happy New Year, December 31, 2004
As I write this, donations to the American Red Cross via Amazon.com for tsunami disaster relief are approaching $10 million, given by more than 126,000 people in contributions averaging about $75. That's an amazing and heartwarming thing to keep in mind as 2004 winds to its inevitable end right on schedule and 2005 starts whether you're ready for it or not. It was in the high 60s today in the Nashville area, with a partly...

The Wrong Bill Hobbs, December 29, 2004
A reader named Ernie emailed:I had a good buddy in the navy by the name of Bill Hobbs and I was wondering if it is you. U.S.S. John F. Kennedy CVA 67 in 1968-69, V3 Division. You would remember me as 'Goat' if it is you. Saw your HobbsOnline website and was wondering.Sorry, Ernie, that wasn't me. I was five and playing with plastic boats in the tub in 1968-69....

Merry Christmas To Me, December 20, 2004
Arrived today via the big brown truck: my new Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens. Which of course makes me very happy - except that the camera body of my new Canon EOS 6.3MP Digital Rebel won't be here until tomorrow. The bank that issued the credit card that I used to pay for it didn't process the charge until I contacted them to verify that, indeed, it was I who was...

Cheater, December 05, 2004
The Daily Kos is caught cheating to win A 2004 Weblog Award....

Outside My Window, November 18, 2004
They're doing blasting outside the windows of where I work, digging a big hole in which will go the underground parking for a new building to be built above the hole. Here's an animated .gif file showing this morning's explosion. To get a sense of what it felt like, run in place hard and fast while watching it... Photos and animation by Michael Krouskop The pile on the left was created by an earlier blast...

The Wrong Diagnosis, October 27, 2004
The Tennessean blames the flu vaccine shortage on the pharmaceutical industry's desire for higher profits, in an editorial today that claims there's no link between liability lawsuits and the dwindling number of companies that produce the flu shots. Predictably, the editorial calls for "solving" the problem by a large dose of government spending to subsidize flue shots. But the truth is liability lawsuits have played a very large role in reducing the number of flue...

A Bargain, October 21, 2004
Bizarre but true: A few months ago, I purchased a Canon EOS 6.3MP Digital Rebel Camera online and at about the same time as it arrived, both my car and my wife's SUV needed extensive repairs that were going to cost almost exactly what the camera cost. The camera was returned without the box ever being opened, and it went back on my personal wish-list. Last night, I dreamed Canon cut the price of the...

Beating Expectations, September 24, 2004
A headline in last week's Nashville Business Journal about Nashville's only Segway dealer struck me as being fraught with uncertain meaning: Segway sales beating expectations What were the expectations? Did they expect to sell one? Ten? 50? A thousand? The story doesn't say. Whatever the expectations, Nashville's only Segway dealership was pleasantly surprised to sell more. Okay. Congratulations. And don't let anyone tell you that riding a Segway looks dorky....

Daydreaming..., September 02, 2004
If Ed McMahon ever drops a big check off at my house, I'd like to spend it on a house some place like this. Hmm. 30,000 unique visitors per month. A dollar or two from each one per month... [slap!] Sorry... just daydreaming a bit....

If You Don't Play, You Can't Lose, August 27, 2004
There's something a little sick about using the word "perseverance" in connection with someone obsessively buying lottery tickets until they win. When I teach my kids about perseverance, it will be in reference to having a strong work ethic and an indomitable spirit - not in trying to get rich by repeatedly wasting money trying to win a large chunk of cash that the state lottery accumulated by taking it, a few dollars at a...

What We Need is An Association of Niche Organizations, August 06, 2004
One of the things I figured out early on as a business reporter 14 years ago is that, no matter what industry or subject I was writing about, there was at least one industry assocation or trade group that could provide me with data or quotes or resources. But even I would have never guessed there was an organization, association, council or foundation for this....

Graceless Land, August 02, 2004
Here is an interesting website that I just stumbled across.The Memphis News Bureau exists to ensure that accurate, positive news about Memphis and the Mid-South are available for use by print and broadcast media. Such news items must stand on their own as legitimate stories based on journalistic criteria. The News Bureau is jointly funded by a consortium of Memphis-area nonprofit, business-oriented organizations, including Think Memphis!, whose collective objective is to foster a positive national...

Atlas Lines: Scum of the Earth, August 02, 2004
Atlas Lines refuses to return $30,000 of Operation Give's money. Don't ever do business with Atlas Lines. Atlas Lines is scum of the earth. They've made $30,000 disappear that belongs to a charity whose only purpose is to bring toys and joy to poor Iraqi children. More details here. As Dean Esmay summarizes it: "They ran off with $30K earmarked for Iraqi kids and American soldiers." If you wish to help, simply post a similar...

Movie Review, July 26, 2004
Had a chance to see The Bourne Supremacy this weekend. I love spy thrillers, and enjoyed it a lot. I agree with this review and this review and this review of the film. My wife hated it for all the same reasons I enjoyed it. Now I've got to rent the DVD of The Bourne Identity, which I haven't yet seen....

The Things I'd Blog If I Was Blogging Today, July 18, 2004
Here's a few of the things I'd be blogging about today if I wasn't being lazy: From FactCheck.org: Economy Producing Mostly Bad Jobs? Not so fast. A new set of figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show HIGHER-paying jobs growing faster. From James Glassman: Good News! The Kids Are Alright From UPI: Bush Lauded By Medal of Honor Winners From the AP: Sunday scarely distinctive day in America anymore From Steven Forrest: Legal Expert...

Prison's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose, July 16, 2004
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Really?, July 15, 2004
Headline in today's Nashville City Paper: Night sky topic of astronomers...

LinkFest, July 13, 2004
I'm getting more emails with links to promising blog posts, and run across more appealing things in my forays around the blogosphere, than I can possibly respond to or post on each day, so here's a brief list of some stuff that various bloggers have posted in recent days that looks pretty good. On business, Steven Antler over at EconoPundit has reported some IRS tax return data that indicates entrepreneurship is alive and well from...

A Fine Discovery, July 12, 2004
I just discovered that a cousin of mine who I roomed with one year in college a few years two decades ago this fall is moving from the parched flatlands of West Texas, where he's been an English professor, to the rain-greened mountains of Seattle, where he'll be working for the Discovery Institute. According to its website:The Institute discovers and promotes ideas in the common sense tradition of representative government, the free market and individual...

Cool, June 21, 2004
I'm a verb. May it spread far and wide in the blogosphere......

More Bang for the Blog, June 15, 2004
An advertising executive says advertising on blogs is a smart move....

Of Blog Ads and Reagan, June 08, 2004
Donald Sensing reports proof that Blogads are a cost-effective way to advertise. He also assesses the Reagan legacy in a long and very good essay of the type you won't find in the major media. Which is probably why more Americans read blogs than watch CNN, and a growing number of them are reading well-written blogs like Donald's. Which is probably why Blogads work. And why Reagan probably would have been a blogger....

Legislating From the Squad Car, June 07, 2004
We've all heard about "activist judges" who legislate from the bench. , apparently, some city police are now legislating from inside their squad cars. In a letter to the editor in today's Nashville City Paper, a a reader/writer named Kenneth Joyner reports that his wife was ticketed for driving in the high-occupancy-vehicle lane even though she had the required two people in the car....

Great Inventions, June 04, 2004
Fire. The Wheel. Coffee. The Brew 'N Go....

Artillery Fire, June 02, 2004
Donald Sensing seems to have ended his break and the good Reverend is now back and blogging up a storm about baseball, pretty girls, the war and more. Lots more. Go here and read and scrolls and read and scroll some more....

The Big Four Oh!, June 02, 2004
Depending on who you talk to, either my life began today or it's all downhill from here. UPDATE Happy Birthday to we....

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Won't Rise Agin', June 01, 2004
Donald Sensing says the South won. Hah....

The Day After Today, June 01, 2004
I turn 40 tomorrow. Not later this year. Not in a few months. Not even a few weeks from now, or next week. Tomorrow. 40. Tomorrow. Sympathy gifts welcomed.It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it ... and I feel fine - R.E.M. (Play It)...

Memories, May 29, 2004
Back when I was a kid, my parents took me here. It was cold. And on the way down - at night - we could see thunderstorms off in the distance in the sky below us. Incredible. Speaking of Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Bloggers Bash was last night....

Argh, May 26, 2004
I just glanced at the calendar and realized that I turn 40 in less than a week. Tuesday, June 2, at around 6 a.m. Sympathy cards and gifts accepted. It seems like I turned 30 just a few days ago. Where did the last decade go? I have two children, ages 6 and 20 months. She was just 3 last year, and he was born a few months ago - or so it seems. When...

Oops, May 26, 2004
Disregard the previous item. HobbsOnline isn't mentioned in Tim Chavez's newspaper column today, and the issue of the legislature exceeding the state constitution's cap on the annual growth of government spending isn't addressed. Perhaps in a future column...?...

Blog Tour ... and more, May 25, 2004
Hugh Hewitt is taking a "media break" until June 3. Meanwhile, he's published a pretty good list of blogs you should read regularly. (I'd have loved to have been on that list!) Hewitt's right - read those blogs and you'll pretty much know what you need to know. Several of the blogs Hewitt lists are also on my regular reading list - Instapundit, Evangelical Outpost, Roger L. Simon, Belmont Club, Little Green Footballs, RightWingNews, Mark...

Um, Excuse Me?, May 22, 2004
As I mentioned below, I'm not blogging much today. This morning I participated in a mass bike ride along some new bike trails in the city of Nashville. Before the start, the politicians felt the need to speak. Nashville's mayor irked me a bit when he talked at length praising the Metro Council for funding the bike trails. Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but the government doesn't fund things. The taxpayers do. Would it kill you...

A Michael Williams Grab Bag, May 13, 2004
Michael Williams is one of my favorite bloggers. Today, he is wondering if the large number of American soldiers and civilians current serving or working in Iraq are represented in presidential election opinion polls - and whether, a la Vietnam, we'll be questioning future presidential candidates 30 years hence why they were or weren't in Iraq. Mike's also responding to a Donald Sensing post about "erotic worship," discussing why he's not a Libertarian, and warning...