Tennessee Trash
I was looking for some other posts about eyesores in Knoxville and and found the Tennessee Trash Blog. Byron has posted this commercial on the entire site. It is a remake of the “Tennessee Trash” commercial that ran when I was a kid in the 70s. The funniest thing about the orginal is how I [...]
Uh…Me Either
According to this, Rudy Giuliani is completely out of touch with the average American because he’s not exactly sure of the price of bread and milk. Ironically, I stopped on the way home today to get a few things from the grocery store, including bread and milk, and I have no idea what I paid [...]
Jeopardy Odds
Carl Bialik blogs on numbers for the Wall Street Journal. Here’s a fun post about the recent 3-way tie on Jeopardy. It mostly talks about the accuracy of the calculation that the odds of a three way tie on Jeopardy is 25 million to 1. Very interesting. I don’t know why it never occurred to [...]
GOP Debates on May 3rd will Feature Nine Candidates, Including Ron Paul
Sandy Price sizes up the candidates who have accepted invitations, and had this to say about Ron Paul: Congressman Ron Paul is the sole candidate who believes in a limited government and a “hands off” position as far as our individual choices goes. Dr. Paul has also stated that he is against the Iraqi war and [...]
Ron Paul on Bill Maher
The best thing about this interview is that as, ahem, “smart” and clever Maher is, he had very little in way of retort to Paul. Maybe this is the first time Maher has heard the argument that the Civil War wasn’t really about slavery? [youtube xo6KIusCBoU]
Pullo and Vorenus Were Real
Hugh Hewitt has a nice post with an excerpt from Caesar’s memoirs about the real Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus. I’m very disappointed that Rome is ending as a series, especially since there is so much more story to tell. Although the writers took several liberties with documented history, it’s pretty cool that they were [...]
