A Great Place to Work?
As a former employee, I was interested in the article the KNS ran today about Denso Manufacturing Tennessee’s expansion. It was about what I would expect from a local paper writing about a local company expanding–lots of talk about new jobs, complimentary remarks about the people of the region, and a few standard corporate-type comments [...]
LOSTer’n'a Easter Egg
Last week’s episode of LOST (“The Constant”) answered a lot of questions for me–I thought.  My idea was that the island is the nexus for all possible universes.  This would explain why Jack’s father is alive in the future and Kate is so protective of Aaron.  I think that in the universe they return to Jack’s [...]
Good Lesson From a Newspaper Guy
From Michael Silence: Here’s a rule of thumb: It is not incumbent upon you to prove a document is public. It is incumbent upon a government employee to prove it is not. *Read the story which prompted that nugget. Interesting: Ms. Long again stated that they were not public and would not be public until [...]
My (sort of) Smoke Free Workplace
The company I work for removed all smoking areas upon our return on Wednesday as the second part of their plan to eliminate smoking on our campus completely. The State of Tennessee is eventually going to make us do it anyway, right? As of January 2, employees are only allowed to smoke in their cars. [...]
Yet Another Blessing of Lotteries
I wouldn’t trade places with this guy for any amount of money. …once they borrow money from you, you can’t be friends anymore. Whittaker’s struggles with drinking, gambling and philandering became public… His home and car were repeatedly burglarized. In all, Whittaker says, he’s been involved in 460 legal actions since winning… The couple filed [...]
Deputy Fired for Stealing $10 in Gas
From the KNS: A Knox County sheriff’s deputy was terminated today after being charged with stealing less than $10 worth of gasoline. I think it is more newsworthy that all of the other incidents involving county employees and greater sums of money haven’t ended in termination. That’s exactly what would happen at my job, and [...]
Ron Paul is Not Ron Paul Enough
Extreme Mortman has a hilarious list of why Ron Paul is not libertarian enough. It was partly meant as an experiment to see how many Ron Paul supporters would flock to anything said about Ron Paul if his name was in a post, which is pretty dead on–did I mention it was a list about [...]
Tim Hutchison De-certified
We’ll see how it pans out, but for now this is good news. At least Hutchison and company didn’t insult the intelligence of the citizens of Knox County by sneaking around to get the maximum pension for him in a sneaky, clever way. Nope. They made it obvious, right in front of our faces. The [...]
Who is Really Behind Smoking Bans?
I’ve always been very opposed to the government dictating when and where smoking is allowed to private businesses, but something happened this week that make me suspect that private industry may actually be behind smoking bans. So let’s consider this–who has the most to gain by banning smoking in the workplace?
JL Kirk Situation Hopefully Rectified
Surprise, surprise. All they really wanted was to not have their company misrepresented by their mentally challenged employee who left a message on Katherine Coble’s blog. JL Kirk’s main concern at the outset was that we communicate their position – which is different from the information originally told to me by a JL Kirk employee [...]
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