In Which I Say Something Nice about Ghost Adventures

If you don’t watch it, Ghost Adventures is a show in which three giant douches (I used to think it was two giant douches and a poor put-upon sweetheart, but I was wrong) go around and, after a flurry of “Dude”s and “Bro”s, get locked into supposedly haunted sites in which they yell at ghosts [...]

Whew, I am in Over My Head

How it’s set up here at work, there’s a main IT department that gives advice to the people with IT duties in each department.  This is pretty hilarious because I am our office’s IT person. What’s hilarious about this, you might ask? Yesterday, I “solved” a co-worker’s computer problem by installing Vista. I keep asking [...]

Sam Coleman Owes Some of Us an Apology

Holy cow! I came across this story while doing the Morning Roundup over at Pith, about how Councilmember Sam Coleman wants Nashville to allow guns in our more rural parks because they might be dangerous. And I really can’t decide which is worse–that at a time when the Parks budget is being gone over with [...]

The Orange Cat Doesn’t Believe in Walking the Dog

So, I’m coming back from walking the dog and who is sitting at the edge of the AT&T lot, hollering away, but the orange cat. Whew and we got the stink-eye.  And then he herded us back to the house. From the outside, it certainly must have looked like I was walking the dog and [...]

Two Things I Have My Eye On

Ugh, I forgot to take my pill yesterday morning. Seriously, of all the things that wig me out about being medicated for the rest of my life, the ease with which it becomes such a part of your routine that it can just so easily slip your mind scares the shit out of me. I [...]

In Which I Try to Guess Why the TNDP Won’t Aid Adrienne Pakis-Gillon

LeftWingCracker has a post about Pakis-Gillon, which you can read and be persuaded by, or not. I’m still a little suspicious that there are people in the party who would love to foist her off on the bloggers so that, if she loses, they can have their proof that the bloggers aren’t that powerful. I [...]

For the Midwesterners, For the LOLZ

At the end of a post about Casimir Pulaski getting posthumous citizenship, John Arivosis adds: Note from John: Pulaski is a well-known street in Chicago. I never knew the history. Fascinating. For you non-Midwesterners, this is funny for this reasons: While Pulaski is indeed a well-known street in Chicago, that’s not actually why most Chicagoans, [...]

But, Fat, Fatty Fat Fat…

Today, Nicholas Krisoff is writing about BPA, a synthetic estrogen that’s in almost everything. The chemical companies have a study that says it’s safe. A great many studies not conducted by the chemical companies link it to everything from diabetes to malformed genitals to obesity. On average, apparently, we consume six pounds of this stuff, [...]

Beautiful Early November

Bell’s Bend Park is in Need of Help

So, the dog and I just got back from Bell’s Bend Park. We normally go on Sundays but we were both in the mood for it today. The walk was great. The park was beautiful. All the things that want to prick you with their long prickly prickers can no longer hide it behind their [...]

An Updatey Update

For those of you following along at home, I have a very rough draft of my book proposal done, because the Professor said she was going to look at it this weekend and I had to have something to show her. I have looked at thousands of book proposals in my life (granted, not for [...]

Did I Tell You About the Hiestand House?

I don’t think I did. I think I just put up pictures. Anyway, we drove about an hour farther than I thought we should have.  Looking at a map, I’m convinced that going up to Bowling Green and cutting across on the future I-66, even if you can go 70 miles an hour the whole [...]

Looking at the Big Picture

I’m going to look at this for a while, just to recharge my soul.

The Thing that Really Bugs Me about the School System

I’m not saying the accusations of trying to resegregate the school system don’t bug me. Obviously, they do. But at a level, I can almost appreciate it. You don’t want your kids to have to deal with some situation.  It may be fucked up. It may be evil, but it’s about putting what you think [...]

All I Have To Say

All I have to say about yesterday’s incident is this–the burden of these wars falls unequally. A very small group of men and women return again and again to do something the vast majority of families in this country have kept their sons and daughters out of the way of. People willing to risk their [...]

Oh, Tennessee

The first book about Tennessee politics I’d like to will into existence is, of course, a history of the Memphis Fords, with a whole narrative arc about the minor tragedy of Harold Ford Jr. not having a snazzy hat. But after that, I swear, someone needs to write a book about Mike Turner. I vote [...]

Fowler, Revisited

I’m sorry, I got to telling folks about this at lunch and it just tickled me so much.  I mean, I spent my morning doing work and thinking about how nicely Coble phrases things, how delicious I find her writing. And all indications are that Fowler gets to spend his morning thinking of shocking sexual [...]

Shorter David Fowler

We have to discriminate against gay people now or we won’t be able to discriminate against other people in the future!!!!!!! I have two thoughts. 1. Why doesn’t David Fowler support the efforts of people to bring back true Biblical marriage? Does David Fowler think he knows better than God how to organize a family? [...]

Random Thursday Things

1. I now have a new theory about what happened to all my pumpkins. And possibly what my neighbors are constantly shooting at. 2. One of the things I like best about the internet is when you see people you know create something that kind of blows your mind. This picture of Malia is amazing. [...]

A Book, The Book

I have to tell you that every time I sit down to write a post about the prospect of turning the ghost stories into a manuscript that could then be submitted to publishers who will then write me notes laughing in my face and telling me how stupid I am and how I have no [...]

Decitement? Expression? Oh, Wait, Expression is Already a Word

Well, Maine. I’m bummed on the one hand. But on the other hand, I can’t believe that that many people came out in support of gay marriage.  Even ten years ago, would you have thought that would be possible? Can you feel like we lost and are winning at the same time? Because that’s how [...]

Strange, Very Strange

I’ve been wondering about the “conversion” of the former Planned Parenthood director. Not just for the reasons Amanda Marcotte outlines, though I think she’s right about all the reasons this whole thing sounds so sketchy. But when someone threatens repeatedly to kill you and then you “mysteriously” start working with them, it’s hard for a [...]

News Laundering

I wrote a post about it over at Pith.

Something’s Not Right Here

I came across this story while I was doing the Morning Round-Up over at Pith. It’s about how the woman who kidnapped that baby a few weeks ago is reportedly suicidal. I know. Your first thought, as is mine, is “Oh, cry me a thousand tears.” But she’s still innocent until proven guilty AND we’re [...]

Democratic Leadership Continues to Advance the Cause of Picking on Children

As if kids in our state don’t have enough problems (today we learned that half of all U.S. children will go on food stamps at some point), the Democrats continue their efforts to make fun of the fatties. First there was Andy Berke, wanting us to run around knocking the cake out of fat kids’ [...]