Paranormal State

9:00–Yes, it seems like everyone is searching for the truth.
9:03–Ghosts are trying to kill a kid.  “Director” is annoying as hell already.
9:05–I believe Shelley has a unicorn on her bed.  No wonder the ghosts are pissed.
9:06–Kid is creepy as hell.
9:07–Newscoma, you’d better be watching this!  Timmy’s in the basement. 
9:08–This “Director’s Log” crap has got to [...]

Oh, Tiny Pasture

If I can’t even make the Sunday Morning Tennessee Liberal Blog round-up, I highly doubt I will make the New Media Hot Sheet, even if it does seem like “objectionable material,” “irreverant,” and “base” could only mean that the Governor is warning folks that they may have to read Tiny Cat Pants.

Random Questions I Should Know the Answers To

1.  Is there a term for the philosophy of leaving your opponent with an honorable way to lose in order to keep him/her from being more dangerous?
2.  I’m looking forward a great deal to the start of the Tennessee legislative session.  When do we get to start seeing the legislation folks will be proposing?
3.  Our [...]

Thirty One

Yesterday was the recalcitrant brother’s thirty first birthday.  He spent it fishing by himself.
I can’t write you anything about him.  All I can think about is watching him come out of jail, with no idea how long he’d been in there, no idea what time it was,  hungry, tired, and scared and holding onto my [...]

Human Rights Day

Over at Progressive Nashville, you can read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a proclamation first issued fifty years ago.
What I find interesting to consider when reading it is, of course, how relevant it remains, and how these rights wouldn’t need to be guaranteed if they weren’t constantly threatened.