Miscellaneous:

Moving Day Ahead, April 23, 2008
Limited blogging so far this week and for the remainder of the week - I'm off work this week. I'm on vacation. Well, sort of. We're working to get our house ready to go on the market, so it's not...

Terminal, April 16, 2008
ER, a television show I am frequently surprised to find out is still on the air, is coming back again next year for a 15th and final season. I thought that show flat-lined about four years ago. Does anybody still...

Been There, Done That, April 6, 2008
Chris Hafner at CarLust.com remembers the Acura Integra GS-R. I had a 1996 Integra hatchback - not the GS-R model, but one step down to the Integra SE (Special Edition) model that combined luxury interior with the GS-R's sport suspension...

Ben Stein in Nashville, March 24, 2008
Ben Stein, the brilliant commentator, actor, author, comedian, game show host and one of my favorite people in politics - you might remember him as the boring economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off - visited my town recently. I...

Next Year in Havana, February 19, 2008
When I read the news this morning that Fidel Castro, who has kept the Cuban people imprisioned in 1959 for half a century, has decided to retire, one of the first people I thought of was Carrie Ferguson Weir, a...

Request for Prayers, January 17, 2008
My daughter and I are traveling to Philadelphia tomorrow to visit my mom who, after a five-year battle with breast cancer that for a few years she appeared to be winning, is now indeed closing in on victory. Not a...

Remembering Devereaux Cannon Jr., December 31, 2007
Devereaux Cannon Jr., whose hand-cobbled blog Tax Free Tennessee was one of my inspirations in my early days of blogging, died suddenly and unexpectedly Dec. 29. I never got to meet Mr. Cannon, though I spoke with him on the...

Happy Holidays from Achmed the Dead Terrorist, December 31, 2007
Jeff Dunham rocks. More from Dunham here....

Blogger Baby, December 28, 2007
Congratulations to new father Rob Huddleston....

Just What the World Needs..., December 14, 2007
Scientists in South Korea have created glow-in-the-dark cats. That's gonna be awesome around Halloween......

Shaw Enough, December 6, 2007
City Paper arts and music writer Ron Wynn writes about the latest album from Shaw-Blades, the collaboration of longtime Styx guitarist Tommy Shaw and former Night Rangers and Damn Yankees bassist Jack Blades. Shaw's contributions to the music of Styx...

From China to the Confederacy, December 4, 2007
The Williamson Herald has a fascinating story about the Chinese immigrant visiting the Nashville area from California who discovered his great-great uncle was buried at the Confederate Cemetery at Carnton, meaning the former stone mason from China's Guangdong Province had,...

The Rep Goes to Greece, November 13, 2007
"The Rep" Stacey Campfield reports on his ongoing international trade mission to Greece. Read the whole very funny thing....

The Story of a Bell, November 6, 2007
There's an old church bell that sits affixed to the top of a low brick platform behind Fourth Avenue Church of Christ in Franklin, Tennessee. The church building has been there at the corner of Fourth and Main since 1928,...

Today's the Day., October 29, 2007
I'm sure you heard this career advice at one time or another: "Do what you love and the money will come." Well, today, I'm living proof of that. I love writing and media, and I love politics, and today I...

Scream Free Parenting, September 10, 2007
Hal Runkel, author of the book ScreamFree Parenting, will be in the Nashville area for a book-signing Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble in Brentwood. A cousin of mine works with the ScreamFree organization, which...

Happy Fourth of July!, September 3, 2007
On this, Labor Day 2007, the Tennessee Democratic Party wishes you... a Happy Fourth of July. Click image for larger view...

3:10 to Yuma, August 27, 2007
I've been waiting a long time for the next great Hollywood western. Looks like my wait might be almost over....

Same Leopard, New Spots, August 24, 2007
The Institute for Legal Reform has issued a press release regarding the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association's recent name-change. The ILR also is running an ad on some Tennessee blogs, R. Neal at KnoxViews.com - the blogger formerly known as "South...

Trial Lawyers Update, August 9, 2007
I mentioned yesterday in the post "Same Leopard. New Spots." that the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association had not yet followed nearly a dozen other states in emulating the decision of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America to change its...

Same Leopard, New Spots, August 8, 2007
The Institute for Legal Reform has a separate website out - Same Leopard. New Spots - making note of the fact that the Association of Trial Lawyers of America has changed its name to try to escape its bad reputation....

On Harry Potter, July 21, 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Tax-and-Spend Democrats - at Elephantbiz.com....

Well Said, May 23, 2007
I rarely watch Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, but I caught a few minutes of it tonight and found two lines very funny. Of the Congressional Democrats agreeing to send President Bush an Iraq war funding bill with no timetable...

Prayer Request, May 18, 2007
My mother, Harriet Hobbs, has breast cancer for the second time. She's 77 and had it about five years ago, and treatment was effective. But now it has returned - stage-4 metastatic breast cancer. Treatment this time with Herceptin, a...

I Blame Public Education, May 3, 2007
Franklin Review-Appeal, Franklin, TN, May 2....

Looking for Oklahoma Bloggers, April 26, 2007
I'm looking to compile a list of Oklahoma center-right political bloggers. If you are know of a good one, please leave the URL in the comments. If you are one, please leave your name, URL and email address - it...

Cycling Corker, April 20, 2007
If you're into cycling, especially for commuting, Brian Arner has what sounds like good news out of Sen. Bob Corker's office. I didn't know Corker was an avid cyclist. Now that I do know that, I have a suggestion for...

Doppelganger, April 15, 2007
Tim Warner at Mother Tongue Annoyances finds a number of surprising similiarities between JL Kirk Associates and the Bernard Haldane company. (Background on this story here.)...

300, April 10, 2007
I'm quite late in getting around to it, but Darren Duvall has a very interesting review and historical, political and cultural analysis of the movie 300....

I Don't Think I'll Get It, March 2, 2007
Just for grins, I think I'll apply for this job....

Gore Skips Airport Security Checkpoint, March 2, 2007
After all the bad press he's received in the past few days for his energy-hog lifestyle and the fishy story about buying "carbon offsets" from a company that he founded that doesn't appear to sell them, you'd think Al Gore...

Help!, February 19, 2007
I'm looking for someone in the Nashville area who is an expert at installing MovableType and assorted MT plugins on a server. Contact me asap....

YouTubing, January 21, 2007
This is my son's favorite video on YouTube. He's four. I kind of like it too. But the dancing cow is better. And, for the grownups, here's Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson riffing on saving the weird animals....

Greenpeace Seeks to Squelch Speech, January 18, 2007
It's been said by others that the Left likes free speech, but only if you speak in agreement with them, and the environmentalist organization Greenpeace is providing more evidence that is true. Greenpeace is trying to squelch speech that it...

Mine Your Own Business, January 16, 2007
Mine Your Own Business, a documentary about environmental activists and poverty, played at Vanderbilt University back in October, and I'm sorry I missed it. But if you happen to live near New York City or Washington DC you can...

Standing Between Us and Chaos, January 11, 2007
Donna Locke emailed a moving piece about the funeral procession for murdered Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper Calvin Jenks. Please click the "read more" link to read it....

Cult Meeting, January 8, 2007
The Tennessean reports on the meeting activities of Al Gore's global-warming doomsday cult, as "hundreds of volunteers from across the country have flocked to Nashville this fall and winter and more are here today as part of a grass-roots training...

And A Happy New Year..., December 29, 2006
I haven't been blogging much the past few days because I've been swamped with a huge non-blogging project for a paying client, and also writing for the Ecotality and ElephantBiz.com blogs. But right now I'm on Legislative Plaza downtown being...

O Holy Night, December 25, 2006
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own...

State Department Gives Global Internet Freedom a Boost, December 24, 2006
The U.S. State Department will address Internet freedom when it evaluates countries around the world in the next release of its annual Human Rights Report, Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs, said December 20. In...

I Want One Of Those, December 22, 2006
I hope some of my readers have been checking out the ECOtality blog, a new blog about alternative energy where I'm one of a handful of bloggers contributing regularly. The group of bloggers run the gamut politically, from "green" Bush-loathers...

Global Warming Smothers Denver, December 21, 2006
Two feet of snow in Denver and as much as three feet total predicted. Such blizzards are somewhat uncommon in Denver - the last was in April 2003. The Rocky Mountain just west of the city do get a lot...

Considering A Christmas Card, December 20, 2006
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's decision to put a painting of a Muslim girl on the cover of his Christmas card caused a lot of discussion around the blogosphere, but none better than Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters. Read it here....

An Energetic New Blog, December 20, 2006
I'll be blogging about alternative energy news and issues for Phoenix-based Ecotality Inc., for at least the next six months. I don't write much about alternative energy here at BillHobbs.com, but it is something I read a lot about and...

Silver Flowers, December 16, 2006
My daughter drew this. I though it was pretty cool. On the original, the silver is metallic....

When Liberals Attack, December 14, 2006
This story from the Nashville Scene made me laugh at pretty much every one involved. Someone needs to tell those folks the Sixties ended 36 years ago....

Accent Philly, December 9, 2006
There's another one of those online quizzes, one that purports to determine the accent you speak with via a few simple questions. It seems to be accurate. I took the quiz, and it said I had a "Philadelphia" accent. Well,...

In Sympathy With a Cop Killer, December 8, 2006
A.C. Kleinheider says U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, did the right thing Wednesday when he voted against a non-binding resolution condemning the decision by the city of St. Denis, France, to name a street in honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the...

Bye Coastal, December 5, 2006
Coastal Living magazine is looking for a travel editor who is "entranced by the sea." The magazine, "the nation's premier magazine for people who love the coast," is based in Birmingham, Ala. Which is coastal in the way that Detroit...

Announcing: ElephantBiz.com, December 4, 2006
As of today I am now writing a blog for Know More Media called ElephantBiz.com, styled as a blog covering "The business of Republican and Conservative politics." That means a lot of blogging about campaigns, consultants and such rather than...

At Least, November 29, 2006
Promotional junk mail from Donelson Air Conditioning, which once did service on our home's HVAC system:Dear Customer, According to our customer service records, your heating and/or cooling system is at least ten years old ... NOW may be an excellent...

Plucky, November 16, 2006
I'm just curious... Is there anyone among my readers who works at ?...

Christmas Sale, November 9, 2006
For sale: One 12-foot pre-lit artificial Christmas tree. It's a beautiful tree that doesn't look artificial. We'll let it go for $275 or thereabouts. For $300, for any buyer in the Nashville area, I'll bring it to your house....

"Sell it on eBay", November 9, 2006
I've bought a few things on eBay before, but never sold anything there, so as my wife and I were doing a little "Spring cleaning" several months late and contemplating what to do with a lot of usable stuff we...

Shelby County Wide Open For Vote Fraud, November 3, 2006
John Harvey's Voting in Memphis blog is ground-zero for the investigation into voter fraud in Memphis. Check it often. Harvey has for months been doing the investigative reporting that the mainstream media ought to have been doing....

NCSL Posts Audio of Nashville Sessions, October 16, 2006
The National Conference of State Legislature is posting written session summaries, audio of entire sessions, photos, presentations, and video of selected speakers from the NCSL's 2006 Annual Meeting in Nashville this past August. Here is the web page. The session...

Electronics Question, October 9, 2006
I have a 12-year old Sony rear-screen projection big screen TV that has, lately, developed a yellow outline around the images on the screen, more pronounced at the right and left sides of the screen than in the center. I've...

The Battle of Franklin, October 5, 2006
Like Donald Sensing, I live in Franklin, Tennessee, and like Donald Sensing I believe Franklin Mayor Tom Miller ought to resign before he tramples our First Amendment rights any further. It's sad that someone can get elected mayor of a...

Reading List, September 23, 2006
I just ordered the book The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the revised edition of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, scheduled for release Oct. 1. I'm...

A Nose for News, September 7, 2006
I just had a CT scan done of my sinuses. Click the image to see the video....

Target Needs Remedial History, September 5, 2006
Target needs a history lesson. [Hat tip: Betsy Newmark] Don't miss the comments on Target's site......

Anticipation..., September 2, 2006
Mike Sechrist of the very cool WKRN is hosting another gathering of Nashville-area bloggers on Saturday, Sept. 9, at Wolfy's Den downtown and, as usual, I'll have to miss it. Somehow they always manage to schedule these things when I...

Beach Bummer, July 31, 2006
I'm going on vacation next week to Santa Rosa Island on the Florida Gulf Coast and I just learned that Route 399, which runs through the Gulf Islands National Seashore, was destroyed by last year's hurricanes. That's too bad because...

Where Is the Class Action Lawsuit?, July 18, 2006
NewsChannel5 has exposed a local car dealership for its bait-and-switch tactics. The Better Business Bureau has a huge stack of similar complaints about Bill Heard Chevrolet in Nashville. Bill Heard Chevrolet is part of a large group of dealerships, a...

My Real Age, July 15, 2006
The calendar says I'm 42.1 years old. RealAge.com says that, biologically - based on diet, medical conditions and other factors, I'm really 43.9 years old. One of the factors described as contributing to my higher "real age" is said to...

A Six Pack and a Bug Zapper, July 2, 2006
I live in Franklin, Tennessee, where it illegal to set off fireworks, though outside the city limits there are numerous roadside stands selling all manner of personal pyrotechnics. In the subdivision where I and my family reside, it seems as...

A Quick Look at the News, June 30, 2006
Some headlines from Friday's Tennessean, Nashville City Paper, and Associated Press: Tennessee corruption probes are not over yet - The FBI says "Operation Tennessee Waltz" and other public-corruption probes in Tennessee are not over yet. Nashville economy tops state -...

I Like My Boss, June 23, 2006
Working for myself is not a bad gig. Today, in between doing some work for some clients - including my newest client as of yesterday - I cut the grass, trimmed the trees, edged around the patio, and generally...

They Deserve It?, June 16, 2006
The Friday Tennessean says the Dixie Chicks "deserve" airplay for their latest music. Not true. We live in a market-based economy, and that includes entertainment. Country radio station programmers aren't playing the Chicks because their audience doesn't want them to...

My Head Is Spinning, June 11, 2006
Sunday's Washington Post has an Associated Press story about recent events in Somalia wants you to know the following: Islamic militants winning = peace.Somalia's Future Hinges on Victors' Laws NAIROBI, Kenya -- Islamic militants in Somalia have succeeded where the...

Tripping, June 10, 2006
This is a trip I'd like to take. But then, pretty much any trip out west is a trip I'd like to take....

Happy Birthday To Me, June 2, 2006
42 is many things. It is ... The number of U.S. gallons of oil contained in one barrel of oil. The age at which Elvis Presley died. The original number of columns in the Parthenon. The jersey number of baseball...

Odd Thing, May 27, 2006
It was an odd thing that happened to me this morning. I was standing on my driveway at about 11:30 a.m. Suddenly, a shower of pebbles of glass sprayed on and around me. The rear driver's side window on my...

Alphabet Song, The Abridged Version, May 25, 2006
More fun with digital audio...

Fun With Digital Audio, May 24, 2006
Here's a little something to brighten your day, from my little boy....

On the Verizon, May 24, 2006
A few days ago I mentioned here that I was having trouble getting decent web-surfing speed on the new Wireless AirCard from Cingular that I'd installed on my laptop PC. Here's an update: It's still slow. So, today, in a...

Help!, May 19, 2006
My wife's Motorola V557 phone from Cingular got wet and shorted out. She's due a new phone from Cingular in three months near the end of our two-year service agreement. They'll only give us a discount on a new phone...

Oil and Water, May 18, 2006
What if, one day in the not-to-distant future, the oil sheiks of the Middle East suddenly found themselves floating on a sea of oil that nobody wanted? And what if the oil-rich terrorist-funding regimes of that parched desert region one...

If You Love The First Amendment..., May 16, 2006
... then you just have to hate what the Boulder, Colorado, city council is considering doing....

Headlines, May 15, 2006
Nashville City Paper: TBC votes to sever ties with Belmont University The Tennessean: Tennessee Baptists reject Belmont split ChristianPost.com: Tennessee Baptists Won't Sever Ties with University...

Not the Middle of Nowhere, May 14, 2006
The New York Times travel section spends 36 hours in Abilene, Texas, which was a nice place to go to college and sounds better now, 20 years later....

All I Have To Say About That, May 10, 2006
Given my most recent employer was Belmont University, I've had a few inquiries from readers about where I stand on Belmont's ongoing tussle with the Tennessee Baptist Convention. I'll have nothing to say about it, except this: I fully support...

Bio of a Blogger, May 3, 2006
I have completely updated my online bio....

Reader of My Blog Named White House Press Secretary, April 26, 2006
You never know where reading BillHobbs.com might lead. Former Fox News anchor Tony Snow, a reader of this blog, has a new job: White House press secretary....

Life can be very cruel., April 25, 2006
Terry Heaton's wife of 18 months has died, inexplicably, at age 41. By the grace of God, they will be reunited in the next life, but right now Terry needs your prayers....

Er, No., April 24, 2006
No, I won't be applying for this job....

It's A Brand New Beautiful Day, April 15, 2006
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.- Romans 8:28 - God's in his heaven - All's right with the world. - Robert...

At least he didn't name it "Mary Jo", January 10, 2006
The dog in the new children's book by U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Chappaquiddick, is a Portuguese Water Dog named Splash....

The Oncoming Train, January 9, 2006
From today's Nashville City Paper, a story that won't make the proponents of Nashville's new commuter train very happy:Federal transportation subsidies encourage local governments to squander money on under-utilized transit projects, according to a new study released last week by...

"Poetry in Motion", January 8, 2006
By Donna Locke If you like the country and rockabilly music from the Fifties and Sixties, you can hear it Sunday nights on Lawrenceburg's WLX Radio, FM 97.5 and 100.7/AM 590. WLX plays current country music other days, except on...

Design and New Product Blogs, January 7, 2006
By Ben Cunningham The internet is such a wondrous explosion of creativity and free expression. The synthesis and evolution that occurs every second of every day is darn near overwhelming....well, in fact, it is overwhelming. And it renders almost every...

Flash overload, January 5, 2006
By Ben Cunningham My nominee for the most over the top flash animation intro to a Tennessee city web site. Be sure to turn up the volume....

Happy New Year!, January 1, 2006
And may 2006 be better in all respects, for all good people, than was 2005....

Tag, I'm It, December 30, 2005
Doug Petch recently tagged me to participate in the Meme of Fours, so, here goes... Four jobs you've had in your life: Pizza delivery driver, newspaper reporter, magazine editor, public relations specialist. Four movies you could watch over and over:...

If I Had My Druthers, December 28, 2005
I love Nashville, but I'd rather live in Austin, Texas, especially this time of year. Why? Click here, then here (or click to read the extended-entry part of this post). And because I bet nobody - well, nobody sane -...

Not Yo' Daddy's Union, December 27, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform Three things here, unrelated - though, as I think about it, perhaps not. I've thought it over, and I believe that someday, probably soon, a new job category will arise in...

Big Apple got you down? Try MetroNap, December 27, 2005
by Ben Cunningham MetroNap is a self contained pod for short naps and relaxation. They currently have locations in New York in the Empire State Bldg and Vancover, BC. Says you can own your own MetroNap franchise. Maybe make some...

In the Key of Locke, December 27, 2005
By Donna Locke Somehow in all the Christmas confusion and most recent blogger dust-up, my planned post about the Christmas hush got lost. I hope you didn't miss the hush. I really needed it this year. The holiday season concludes...

This is Worth Five Bucks, December 9, 2005
If you're looking for a good cause to give $5 to today, here's two - you can help fund a student mission trip and teach a big corporation a little bit about humanity in the process. I did it....

Google Maps Rocks, December 7, 2005
I'm lovin' Google Maps, and its ability to overlay very detailed road maps over satellite imagery of various locales. While using Google Maps for our next trip to Austin, I pulled up Google's satellite image of downtown Austin. Here are...

Save Them!, December 7, 2005
I own three domain names - ChristianPundit.com, ChristianPundit.net, and ChristianPundit.org - that I once planned to do something with but clearly lack the time to do so. Anyone have any ideas?...

Santa on ICE, December 6, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform On my old Web sites, which required all readers to don hard hats and safety boots, I used to post a Christmas Gift List every December. Each year our network carefully...

Sweet Nothin's and a Somethin', December 1, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform President Bush talked about his "new" immigration-reform/guest-worker plan in a speech in Arizona this week. It's pretty much the same guest-worker plan Bush has been pushing awhile, with new front-loaded tough...

Customer Service Rave: Hertz, December 1, 2005
Last week, I rented a Toyota Camry from Hertz for our trip to Austin. I always rent from Hertz - because Hertz always gives me the best rates and good service. But not this time. This time, I picked up...

Borderline Madness, November 28, 2005
Hossein Derakhshan, a/k/a "Hoder," the Iranian-born Canadian-citizen blogger who spoke at BlogNashville last May, has been barred from entering the U.S. for six months by, well, by one of the federal idiots in charge of our borders. The Committee to...

A Question of Balance, November 27, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform As we await Bill's return, I thought I'd toss in another post, so there would be at least one entry for Nov. 27. The following is an excerpt from an article...

Bad news for PETA, November 26, 2005
By Ben Cunningham According to thisRasmussen survey 98% of us had Thanksgiving dinner. 81% had turkey as the main course and 8% had ham. And a survey result that shows people absolutely do NOT tell the truth when polled, only...

The Solution Is to Enforce the Law, Not Change It, November 25, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform An Arizona Republican congressman continues to speak up (in this case, in response to misguided newspaper editorials), and I couldn't agree more: "Guest-worker Concept Doomed to Fail."...

Happy Thanksgiving, November 23, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform Every Thanksgiving I think about the vigilance thing. I come from a family that has served our country in unusual, or just uncommon, ways. Those ways have to do with vigilance....

Happy Thanksgiving, November 22, 2005
It's a couple days early, but I'm posting this to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. Right after work we'll be heading out of Nashville, driving to Austin, Texas, after a brief pit stop at the airport Hertz counter to exchange...

Report Bolsters DeLay's Defense, November 22, 2005
By Rob Huddleston A story buried in The Hill today focuses on a report by the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity, in conjunction with the Center for Responsive Politics. The crux of the report is that DeLay's public defense -...

Camera Phones used to turn in reckless drivers, November 22, 2005
By Ben Cunningham The Malaysian government has set up a web site where you can upload pictures of your fellow citizens when they drive recklessly. They even have a hall of shame gallery. They must have much better cell phone...

Ben Signs In, November 21, 2005
By Ben Cunningham Thanks so much to Bill for the invite. and wow, to be guest blogging with such a distinquished crew that includes Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn. I had hoped to come up with some profound pearls of wisdom for...

Thanks for the opportunity, Bill, November 21, 2005
By U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn Bill -- I appreciate being thought of as a guest blogger for your blog. And perfect timing. We just wrapped up session for a two week district work period, and the last two days of...

What Law and Order?, November 18, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform The Minuteman Project selflessly continues to do a job our government refuses to do. You can hop to the Minuteman Blog from their main site, which is a dual site, so...

Amnesty By Any Other Name, November 16, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform Sen. Arlen Specter, R-PA, is reportedly circulating a draft of an immigration bill that would allow illegal aliens to adjust to permanent legal status and may contain an increase of as...

This One's For Blake Wylie, November 15, 2005
I haven't been to Austin since coming to the South by Southwest music and media festival here in, I think it was 1995. Back then, there was a store on South Congress, not far from downtown Austin, called "Just...

Nothing Common About Troopers, November 15, 2005
By Matthew White My friend and fellow guest-blogger Adam Grovespointed to some remarks I made that appeared in today's Tennessean. As soon as I read them, I regretted saying them because I used the term "common state troopers." In fact,...

PreLunch Blogging, November 15, 2005
By Nathan Moore Thanks go to Bill for letting us blog in his absence. It's like driving a new car - it feels different, but good at the same time. Sarah seems to have things under control at MooreThoughts this...

Targeting Employers of Illegal Aliens, November 15, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform Oklahoma state legislators have a bipartisan effort going to target employers of illegal aliens. We need a similar effort in Tennessee. My view is that every state should pass a law...

Take This Job and Sell It., November 15, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform Hi folks. I'm doing a little guest-blogging for Bill this week. I'll focus on immigration-related news and topics. If I run out of news, I'll post some things I have learned...

Signing In, November 15, 2005
By Adam Groves Here I am signing in as one of the guest bloggers for the next couple of days. You can check out my blog Simply I or the Tennessee US Senate race dashboard for more of my work....

Breathe Easy, November 12, 2005
Sunday night I went to the Williamson County Medical Center, having breathing difficulties. No, this has nothing to do with why blogging will be extremely light here over the next several days. A couple of chest x-rays later and I...

Out and About, November 3, 2005
I'm speaking this afternoon on a panel at "Leadership Nashville Government and Media Day" on the topic of "The Truth: Spin, news, information and versions of reality in the media world." Also on the panel: E.J. Mitchell, editor of The...

The Doctor Is In, November 2, 2005
Here's an inspiring profile of Dr. Ted Leichner, who served with the 278th in Iraq and was for a time the doctor in Lance Frizzell's medical unit. I know Leichner, a bit, from conversations with him at church, and mentioned...

Barney Update, October 30, 2005
Here's an update on the failure of CharacterStore.com to send the Barney costume we ordered for my three-year-old son for Halloween: Their customer service rep finally called back late Saturday and was, at first, very defensive, claiming they never processed...

CharacterStore.com Ruined My Son's Halloween Plans, October 28, 2005
Bennett, my three-year-old son, really wanted to be Barney for Halloween. He picked it. He's dead set on it. So we ordered the size 2-4T plush Barney costume, from CharacterStore.com. They emailed us a confirmation. The costume never arrived. Last...

Looking for ACU alums from the 1980s..., October 17, 2005
If you attended Abilene Christian University in the 1980s, like I did, Darren Duvall has a question for you. Short version: Why do ACU alumni who attended the school in the 1980s seem to have a lot less school spirit...

Need a Treadmill?, October 13, 2005
We have one of these, virtually new as it has almost never been used. It's already assembled. If you live in the Nashville area and need a treadmill, please make an offer....

Small Change, October 10, 2005
$139 million? I remember when Internet companies were spending that much just on Aeron chairs, foosball tables and Super Bowl ads....

Styx and Stones, October 6, 2005
Channel-flipping tonight after The Apprentice and reading my boy a couple bedtime books, and I come across Dennis DeYoung, long ago the lead singer of Styx, singing "Come Sail Away" with full orchestral backing on WNPT, the local public television...