Bill Hobbs Tells You the Truth About Himself

Bill Hobbs is anti-immigration.  Not anti-illegal-immigration.  Anti-immigration  In other words, now that he and the people he loves are in, bar the door after him.
Why does it matter? You ask.
Because this man is the head flack for the Tennessee GOP.
If you, yourself, are an immigrant or the child or grandchild of immigrants, keep that in [...]

So, Why Does Nashville Have Such a High Incarceration Rate?

So, here we sit with the second largest population-in-jail per capita in the country and the question is why. Looking at the Justice Policy Institute study, it’s not hard to see how our local issues and these national trends intersect.
First, our community, like others, has been hard hit both by drug abuse and then [...]

Cats in Slacks!!!!!!

Oh, holy sweet Jesus, I am about to have to fall over.  I just got an email alerting me to this site–Cats in Slacks–in which this artist has a bunch of prints of Cats in Slacks.
I don’t think I have to tell you, America, what a short path it is from a cat in small [...]

We Are Going to Talk About This Later, Young City

So, I’m reading along over at Progressive Nashville about how Memphis sets unreasonably high bails for minor crimes and how then poor people end up sitting in jail for stuff that is only a fineable offense (and let us not forget that the Memphis jail is the jail famous for non-violent offenders mistakenly getting put [...]

Stupidity at Home

We have all of the windows shut to keep the rain out and it’s so damn hot in here I’m about to have to go to take a long cold shower just to bring my core temperature back down under boiling.  And yet, our roof leaks and water runs down the walls.
So, why are we [...]