Wine At The Grocery Store?
HT to Michael Silence for this. Sen. Bill Ketron and Rep. Randy Rinks introduced a bill (SB3139/HB3451) at the beginning of the legislative session. The proposed legislation would allow wine sales only in municipalities that currently allow package sales. Just another one of the many things I don’t understand:Â we need legislation to allow wine [...]
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 [...]
Stupor Tuesday
What a stinker. Lot’s of folks around the office are talking about the primaries today. It’s strange to me that so many people don’t pay attention until the day of. Anyway, here’s a quick roundup of what some of the blogs I frequent are saying this morning… Music City Bloggers is taking a poll. It [...]
Logical Conclusion of the Stimulus Package
Democrats and Republicans finally agree on something–giving people the power to spend their own money is good for the economy. It has to make you wonder–how good would the economy be if they’d just let us keep it in the first place? Of course, then we wouldn’t need them to take it, pass it around, [...]
The Perfectly Aged Kindergartener
In yet another move that is sure to greatly improve the life of every citizen, the Tennessee legislature is pondering whether or not to change the cutoff date that determines when children can attend kindergarten. Makes sense to me. Who better than a group of politicians to decide when your kid is ready for school? [...]
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. [...]
My 2007 Year in Review
Unlike everyone else, I slacked off and waited until 2008 was officially here to do my review. 2007 was my first year of full on blogging. I’d messed around here and there with different blogs before, but 2007 was the year I drank the Kool Aid and went at it for real. I’ll keep this [...]
No Place Like Home
We had a great time on our trip to Miami, but it is great to be home again and back into our regular schedule. I couldn’t believe the story about the shooting at Hooter’s here in Knoxville–how tragic. I actually found out about it while reading Total Diatribe…thanks Billy Mac! With a week of almost [...]
Dream Connection Radiothon
If you are feeling more like Bob Cratchit and less like Ebenezer Scrooge Tuesday morning, I’ll be manning the phones with the Knoxville Rugby Club at Dream Connection’s annual Radiothon on WIVK–call in and make a pledge from 7am to 10 am! If you aren’t familiar with Dream Connection, it is an East Tennessee charity [...]
