I Never Thought I’d Live To See It
Tennessee is the top ranked team in the nation? In basketball? Men’s basketball? You have to understand, I attended the University of Tennessee during the reigns of Wade Houston and Kevin O’Neil. I was a pretty die hard fan back then. Of course it was easy to sit in the front row of the student [...]
My Ideal News, uh, Thingy
I’m not affiliated with and don’t have any knowledge of the newspaper business. You could make the case that this doesn’t make my opinion worth much, but if you consider the performance over the last few years of people who do know the business, maybe doing something different warrants some consideration. Jack Lail has been [...]
More on Steroids and Baseball
After yesterday’s post, I’ve had a chance to read a little more and think about the issue. This is so obviously a free market issue to me. If baseball fans demand a clean up, we’ll have one. Frankly, I don’t think many of the baseball fans that are left really care one way or the [...]
That’s Not A Steroid Problem…THIS is a Steroid Problem.
Reason brings up some excellent points about athletics, police, and steroid abuse. Given that police officers carry guns, night sticks, and tasers, and that they have the power to use lethal force when necessary, one would think our politicians would be more concerned about illegal use of a drug known to contribute to fits of [...]
Not Even Local News
SVD has a pretty funny post over at KtownLowDown about “Local News“. Well what do I find featured in the KNS the very next day? A real scoop: Kenny Chesney Still Loves The Vols. Look, I get it that offbeat stories are interesting. When somebody does something really stupid or odd, it’s going to attract [...]
How Fitting
There’s been some discussion here over the last couple of days about some of the problems with education, and more specifically the distractions from learning that exist in the school systems. And today my trusty reader finds this article… Thursday night, the future student body got together at Hardin Valley Elementary in hopes of finding [...]
So What Is The Purpose of Schools?
Taylor the Teacher makes some good points about our education system… If schools are for parenting, dietary management, public safety, sex ed, driver’s ed, football, lifelong memories, values, morals AND learning, that changes the equation significantly. If schools are about learning only when learning doesn’t confict with the culture war, get in anyone’s political path, [...]
America’s Next Top Televangelist
Why doesn’t this reality show exist? It would be perfect for CBS Sunday nights, right after 60 Minutes. Of course, you’d have to wait until football season is over. Let the competitors give both prepared and spontaneous sermons on a variety of subjects. Instead of competing for dollars, they could compete for souls. Seriously, why [...]
It’s That Time of Year Again
Local people will hate me for writing this, and most non-locals won’t get why it’s a big deal. It is really sad funny, but I didn’t know that football season started today until about 30 minutes before the UT game. This is what is considered the real football season around here by the way, not [...]
More To Love About Living In The United States
I love the anti-John Edwards post by Glen Dean. Perhaps Edwards should promise to provide all “poor” households with Tivo or DVR. Maybe he could promise every poor family a $50 gift card to Applebees. It really must be difficult to be a poverty pimping populist these days. I have to agree. This is the [...]
