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Folkies, Protestors and Fred Phelps, August 23, 2005
You ought to check out Illinois blogger John Ruberry's Marathon Pundit blog even if you aren't from Illinois. Ruberry emailed to alert me that wacko "preacher" Fred Phelps and his merry band of idiots are planning to picket the funerals of two Tennessee soldiers who were killed in Iraq. Let me state my opinion of Fred Phelps and his cultists as plainly as I can: Fred Phelps is a walking, talking, hate-filled crime against both...

Drumroll Please..., August 22, 2005
New to the blogroll... please welcome Mike's America. Click. Read. Scroll. Learn. Enjoy....

Needed: One Laptop With Wi-Fi, ASAP, August 13, 2005
A day after I posted about Memphis Mike's computer troubles - and urged you to drop a little cash in his PayPal tip jar - Knoxville blogger Rob Huddleston's laptop is roadkill on the cyberhighway of life, and he's in Nashville this weekend for a Promise Keepers event today and then live-blogging Justice Sunday II tomorrow. If you happen to A) live in Nashville, B) have a wi-fi capable laptop, and C) would be willing...

Kickin' Back in Iraq, August 10, 2005
Picture of 1LT Lance Frizzell, 278th Regimental Combat Team, TN National Guard, Diyala Province, Iraq. Picture taken at FOB Cobra which has National Guardsmen from Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. You can't see 'em, but the base is surrounded by insurgents who are on the verge of victory. Yeah, right. Photo found at RushLimbaugh.com's "Club Gitmo" photo collection. I want a Club Gitmo t-shirt....

Blogging Can Be Good For You, August 05, 2005
It has been a long time since I visited Master of None, the excellent blog of one Michael Williams of California. And what do I learn while poking around there? He's getting married - and he met his wife at a gathering of the Bear Flag League, which is a California bloggers' club. Yeah - she's a blogger too. That's very cool, because a couple years ago Mike was blogging about why he couldn't find...

Guest Blogger, August 05, 2005
No, not here. Ben Cunningham is guest-blogging at Matt White's South End Grounds for the next few weeks while Matt is goofing off on a business trip. Be sure to stop by often. There's a teeny tiny chance Ben might write something about taxes....

Link!, August 03, 2005
Rob Huddleston is feeling a bit left out....

IAmNashvilleIsTalking.com, July 29, 2005
I'm guest-blogging at NashvilleIsTalking.com over the weekend. I promise to not try to be as funny as Tim Morgan. Trust me, that's to your benefit....

Game Over?, July 19, 2005
As of this evening, South Knox Bubba's blog has disappeared, replaced at its URL by this image. Some are saying SKB has called it quits. I doubt it will be permanent. His emailed message to another blogger - I'm quitting. Getting to be too much like work and I'm just tired of all the hassles. Thanks for reading and thanks for your support. Cheers! SKB - seems a rather passive-aggressive bid for attention. Of...

Mission Blogging From Moldova, July 18, 2005
Blake Wylie of the NashvilleFiles blog is currently in Moldova with other Christians from Rolling Hills Community Church, and he and other members of the mission team are blogging the trip. Meanwhile, NashvilleFiles isn't dormant - he invited in four guest bloggers who are doing a bang-up job....

Silence is Feingolden, July 11, 2005
Nashville lliberal blogger Sharon Cobb has launched a new website that incorporates her blog and so much more. Currently plastered all over the front of her site and blog is a loving tribute to U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, whose name may be familiar to you as one of the authors of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law that is currently destroying your right to free speech. But the Left loves the guy....

Blogiversary, June 22, 2005
Matt White's blog celebrates its first anniversary....

South Knox Bubba Revealed, June 18, 2005
One of the mysteries of the Tennessee blogosphere - Who is South Knox Bubba? - has been solved, by Bubba himself, though he's blaming Metro Pulse editor Brian Conley. It looks like Bubba over-reacted to a stupid email from Conley. Perhaps, deep down, SKBubba wanted to stop being anonymous....

Small Business Blogging, June 16, 2005
Nashville entrepreneurship professor Jeff Cornwall is blogging this week from Washington, DC, where he is chairing the 50th Annual Meeting of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB)....

Nashville101.com, June 16, 2005
Check out Nashville101.com, a new community blog modeled after Greensboro101.com in Greensboro, N.C. Roch Smith, creator of both sites - as well as Charlotte101.us and, coming soon, Syracuse101.com, says Nashville101.com "is one of the few trial sites I've launched to explore the possibility of creating citizens' media sites in cities throughout the country."...

On the Blogroll, June 10, 2005
I should have put Nathan Moore's blog, Moore Thoughts, on my blogroll a long time ago, but I didn't until five minutes ago. You can make up for my slothful and inexcusable oversight by reading him at least once a day for the next year or so. Moore is a Nashville attorney....

Have a Sip, May 22, 2005
The Tennessean has a story today on Drinkin' the Franklin Kool Aid, a very interesting and entertaining hyperlocal blog I've been urging my readers fellow Franklin, Tennessee, residents to read. In print, the story only appears in the paper's Williamson County zoned edition, in the Williamson A.M. section. UPDATE: Franklin Kool Aid Link fixed....

Simply Better, May 12, 2005
Adam Groves has redesigned his blog....

BlogFranklin, May 12, 2005
If you live in the same town I do - Franklin, Tennessee - be sure to put Drinkin' The Franklin Kool Aid on your daily reading list. Especially if you are concerned about things like traffic, growth, planning and city governance issues in the fast-growing Nashville 'burb. I don't know if everything on that hyperlocal blog is true or accurate, but the author of the site seems to be rather thorough. Memo to the media:...

VRWC Welcomes New Blogger , April 22, 2005
Rob Huddleston, who studied law under Glenn Reynolds at UT-Knoxille, and who has worked for such GOP luminaries as former Sen. Fred Thompson and former U.S. Rep. Ed Bryant, has joined the blogosphere. Huddleston likely will have a lot to say about the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Tennessee in the months ahead. Make sure to read his very gracious first entry. VOLuntarily Conservative is going to become a very good blog very quickly, and...

You Big Mouth, You! Turns 3, April 18, 2005
Chuck Simmins celebrates his third blogiversary and the launch of his fourth year in the blogosphere with a very nice list of "thank yous."...

This.Is.Nashville, March 21, 2005
Kevin Barbieux, the formerly homeless Nashville resident behind the well-known blog The Homeless Guy, has launched a new blog called This.Is.Nashville. Actually, it is seven blogs in one, with each individual blog focusing on such things as music, art, politics, and God, all linked from the central This.Is.Nashville home page. Clever. And he's looking for co-bloggers. Only one entry so far, but Barbieux has a track record of good blogging so This.Is.Nashville has a great...

Thunder 6, March 17, 2005
When the history books recount the Iraq war, they'll get it wrong if they rely on only the Big Media's coverage and ignore the great on-scene coverage coming from military members, civilians and Iraqis who are blogging the war. The photo above comes from a new mil-blog from Iraq, 365 And A Wake Up, written by "Thunder 6," a member of the California Army National Guard currently deployed to Iraq and stationed in Baghdad....

Lance in Color, March 15, 2005
Lance Frizzell's blog, Lance In Iraq, finally has its new design in place. Some tweaking remains, but let me know what you think....

It's Your Business, March 09, 2005
If you are an entrepreneur or interested in the economic health of our country you ought to be reading Jeff Cornwall every day....

The Bloggy Future of Journalism, #2, February 24, 2005
Mark Tapscott, blogger and Director, Center for Media and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, thinks I'm on to something with this post. Mark, I just added your blog to my blogroll....

New MilBlog, February 08, 2005
When you get a chance, check out Schadenfreude, a new blog by two members of the military serving in Iraq. [Hat tip: Mark Rose.] Their Feb. 2 post is very much worth your time to read it....

Financial Exhibitionist, January 25, 2005
Here's a business blogger who is a financial exhibitionist. Fascinating. I'll be checking it regularly....

BlogNashville: Save The Date, January 18, 2005
Here's some major news about a blogging event coming to Nashville in early May. Glenn Reynolds is involved. So am I. So is Robert Cox. So is the Media Bloggers Association. So are a lot of people. If you're a blogger, so should you be....

Blogrolling..., January 18, 2005
I have updated my site's blogroll for the first time in about a year. I culled a few sites from the list, added a few, and rearranged them under new headings that seemed (to me) to make more sense. Let me know what you think....

More Nashville-Area Blogs, January 11, 2005
Last week I put out a call for my Nashville-area readers to help me compile a list of Nashville-area bloggers. They responded, and I learned of a host of blogs I'd never heard of before. Some are political, some personal, some ... passingly strange. Some, it must be said, are better than others. But that's the nature of this small-d democratic medium. The cream shall rise. One that may rise is HispanicNashville.com, in business for...

He's Baaack, January 11, 2005
Blake Wylie, MIA in the blogosphere for a few weeks, is back and in rare form. Check him out at NashvilleFiles....

Measuring A Blog's Success, January 07, 2005
London Calling's George Miller has an interesting take on the recent data from Pew on the phenomenal growth of the number of blogs and blog readers....

Coming Soon, January 06, 2005
Today, I have registered a new domain name, ChristianPundit.com, along with the .net and .org versions, as the future home of a new blog. Hugh Hewitt has encouraged me to "turn it into a group blog for cross referencing of posts by Christian bloggers," which is along the lines of what I was considering. I'd like to see ChristianPundit.com evolve into the web's premier multi-contributor blog for punditry on social, political, cultural and broad theological...

Good Blog, January 03, 2005
One of the most interesting blogs by a Nashvillian is RexBlog, by Nashville custom publisher Rex Hammock. Now, Rex's company, Hammock Publishing, has launched a new company blog, Hammorati. Shortly after it launched, just before Christmas, a fire heavily damaged the historic old church attended by one of Hammock's employees - and he chronicles the story, with some great photography, on Hammorati with several posts, starting with this one. Mainstream media told Nashville the facts...

Ornery, December 23, 2004
What do Drudge, Wonkette, the Smoking Gun, and I have in common? We're all on the list of daily web checks by local teevee anchor/reporter Neil Orne. I get everything on his list except NTSB.gov. (Next time I update the blogroll, Orne's blog is going on it. WKRN seems to be starting to do some interesting things with the 'net. By the way, a thanks to Orne for mentioning Lance Frizzell's new blog Lance In...

HobbsOnline Announces: New Blog From Iraq, December 13, 2004
Lance Frizzell, a longtime friend of this blog, has recently deployed to Iraq and will soon be blogging at a separate blog hosted here at BillHobbs.com....

HobbsOnline Announces: New Blog From Iraq, December 12, 2004
Lance Frizzell, a longtime friend of this blog, has recently deployed to Iraq and will soon be blogging at a separate blog hosted here at BillHobbs.com. Frizzell, until he was called up, was press secretary for the House Republican Caucus in the Tennessee state legislature. Now he is with the 3rd Squadron, 278th Regimental Combat Team, Tennessee National Guard. The 278th was most recently in the news for the flap over the shortage of armor...

It's All Relative, December 08, 2004
My cousin Jonathan Witt, a Senior Fellow and Writer in Residence at the Center for Science & Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, has joined the ranks of the bloggers. He and his wife Amanda have begun blogging here. Jonathan and I roomed together for a year at Abilene Christian University waaay back in the mid 1980s. I muddled through, got my journalism degree and started working. He went on to get a master's...

On the Blogroll, November 02, 2004
Nashville blog-readers ought to add The Nashville Independent to their blogroll....

Take A Break from Memogate, September 20, 2004
Need a break from memogate? I have a few suggestions for you from a quick run through my blogroll... Check out Jeff Corwnall's The Entrepreneurial Mind. Dr. Cornwall has had several good posts lately. Donald Sensing has announced he's taking a break from blogging for at least 6-8 weeks. I wish he'd at least continue to post his Sunday Sermons, but even if he doesn't, his blog is still worth visiting in the meantime as...

Karl Groves, August 25, 2004
Adam Groves is back blogging again after taking a break in order to work on a political campaign. Which means I've got to go put him back on the blogroll......

Silence No More, August 09, 2004
Knoxville News Sentinel reporter Michael Silence has started a blog. It's going on my blogroll....

Blog Redesign, July 13, 2004
Blog redesign. Not me - Dr. Jeff Cornwall's blog, The Entrepreneurial Mind, has been redesigned with a spiffier package for his very good bloggage on the topic of business and entrepreneurship. Check it out. And if you like it, please tell me what a good job I did....

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 Little of This..., June 29, 2004
Matt White is on a roll, taking on Democrats in the Tennessee legislature, lazy journalist, and the future of NATO. Hey, it's the blogosphere. We write about what interests us, hoping you'll find it interesting too. Just click here and read and scroll - and add him to your bookmarks or blogroll....

New Tennessee Blog, June 25, 2004
HobbsOnline reader and friend Matt White has started a blog on Tennessee, politics, baseball and other stuff. It's called South End Grounds, it's a very good-looking and well-written new blog, and I recommend you put it on your list if Tennessee, politics, baseball and other stuff interests you. My guess is Matt, a political consultant and policy guy for various Republicans over the years, will cover a broader spectrum of Tennessee policy issues and political...

Good Stuff at Hoystory Today, June 25, 2004
Matthew Hoy's blog is rockin' today. Just go here and read and scroll and read and scroll.......

Fringe Elements, June 24, 2004
When you get a chance, check out FringeBlog....

Whither P.J.?, June 24, 2004
I absolutely love Michelle Malkin's new blog, and did even before she indirectly linked to me and sort-of mentioned my name. She has a very interesting piece today about talk radio which also mentions P.J. O'Rourke. I am a huge P.J. O'Rourke fan. Or was, before 9/11. The last book of his I read, Eat the Rich, is one of the best economics books you'll ever read and ought to be required reading in high...

A Fine Blogger Calls It Quits, June 18, 2004
One of the best bloggers out there is going on extended hiatus. Well actually, he says he's quitting. Say it isn't so, Robert! No blog goes on forever....

Rexblog Revived, June 17, 2004
Rexblog, the excellent blog of Nashville specialty magazine publisher Rex Hammock, has been resurrected at a new (and better) URL, after it was one of the 3,000 weblogs murdered by Dave Winer. Hammock writes, "You probably know I was one of the "weblogs.com" orphans. Thanks to a timely back-up and the kindness of blogger-friends, I've finally restored the blog and can be found at www.rexblog.com. Adjust your blogrolls accordingly....

Talkin' Malkin , June 15, 2004
Journalist, syndicated columnist and regular FoxNews teevee pundit Michelle Malkin, author of the important book Invasion: How American Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Public Menaces to Our Shores, has started bloging - her new and very stylishly designed blog is located at MichelleMalkin.com. It's going on to my daily blog reading list. Malkin's column is syndicated by Creators Syndicate and appears in nearly 200 papers nationwide. Her book, published in 2002), was a New York...

London Calling, June 10, 2004
My London correspondent George Miller has joined the clash of ideas we call the blogosphere. He now has a blog of his own....

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...

Blogging the Horse Race, May 19, 2004
I have never donated to a blogger the first time I visit the blog. Until today. Dale's Electoral College Breakdown 2004 sucked $10 off my Visa faster than you can say "It'sgonnabearealcloseelection." A fantastic site, indispensable if you're a political poll junkie, or just want to know, day by day, how the 2004 presidential election horse race is going in the one way it really matters - the Electoral College vote count. (And as of...

Help!, May 18, 2004
Robert Prather is trying to hit 500,000 by his blog's second-year anniversary. Given the excellent quality of Insults Unpunished, I'm surprised he hasn't hit a million yet. But, after a Hobbsalanche from this post, I'm betting he will....