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Feel Good Friday: "Chain of Fools"

Friday, August 08, 2008 9:03 AM
Given yesterday's election results, I think this week's Feel Good Friday post should somehow reflect the relationship between Knox County voters and many of our local elected officials. Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools" describes that relationship pretty
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Knox County voters fall asleep

Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:10 PM
The Knox County primary election in February seemed to send a message that voters in this county were still angry over Black Wednesday and intended to exert their control over elected officials run amok; today's county general election proved that assumption
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Paris responds

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:08 PM
Via Rex Hammock , Paris Hilton responds to McCain's recent sleazy ad depicting Obama alongside her and Britney Spears: Maybe I'm showing my age, but it seems like every presidential campaign becomes ever more surreal than the last one. Share this post:
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Quote of the day (on Jonah Goldberg)

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:22 PM
The Anonymous Liberal said this about Jonah Goldberg : For reasons I cannot explain, big publications keep hiring Jonah Goldberg to write columns that make everyone dumber for having read them. That pretty much sums it up. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us
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On the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift

Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:24 PM
This year is the 60th anniversary of the start of the Cold War, and today marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift . In recognition of that anniversary, Spiegel has published an interview with Helmut Schmidt , who was chancellor
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Quote of the day (on political courage)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:28 PM
Jann Wenner interviews Barack Obama in this week's issue of "Rolling Stone." After Obama enumerated the contents of his iPod, he said this (via Blah3 ): When Mr. Wenner asked how Mr. Obama might respond to harsh attacks from Republicans, suggesting that
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Feingold speaks on the FISA travesty

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:50 PM
In this interview with Amy Goodman , Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) promises to filibuster the horrid FISA amnesty bill when it reaches the Senate. First, he outlines the most potent objections to the bill: Sen. Russ Feingold : Well, this is a great blow
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Snarky reasons to vote Republican

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:35 PM
Via Doug McCaughan : That pretty much says it all. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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McCain fundraiser tanks

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:36 PM
This is hilarious : A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center. Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling
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Marsha Blackburn and other wingnuts sign off on theocracy

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:50 PM
Thirty-one members of the US House of Representatives seem to think the establishment of an American theocracy is a more urgent matter than any of the economic, military, or environmental problems we face. Those 31, including Tennessee's own resident
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The slow implosion of the GOP

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:34 PM
The Republican Party seems to be ensnared in a slow-motion downward spiral of late. Party unity on Capitol Hill has all but evaporated, the rank and file are disassociating themselves from the White House like rats from a sinking ship, and the prospects
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House prevents Bush from sticking it to the poor (again)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:20 PM
By a lopsided vote of 349-62, the House of Representatives voted today to impose a moratorium on seven regulations promulgated by the Bush White House which would have eliminated $13 billion in Medicaid funding for health care for the poor. Every House
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Quote of the day (on the Democratic race)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:07 PM
In a comment here , the inimitable Betty Bean said: Is it too late to draft Gore? My sentiments exactly. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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"Liberal" media? Yeah, right

Monday, April 14, 2008 6:22 PM
Number of Google News hits on Obama's "bitter" remark: 2006 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same remarks: 3757 Number of Google News hits on Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Kentucky) calling Obama " boy ": 64 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same
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The distraction du jour: Obama's comments on alienation

Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:25 PM
Barack Obama said this yesterday : "In a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long. ... The jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through
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Knox County Commission admits to breaking the Sunshine Law

Monday, March 24, 2008 11:40 PM
As a consequence of this debacle in our local government, Knox County Commissioners are under a court order not to violate the Sunshine Law again, under penalty of fines and possibly even jail time. Given the events of the last year and a half in this
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A note to Bill Hobbs

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:35 PM
Dear Mr. Hobbs : Your slimy insinuation that a man can be inferred as sympathetic to terrorists because his middle name is "Hussein" is just as idiotic as suggesting a man is a cocaine-addled imbecile merely because his name is "George." Every day that
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Some clarity on GOP scare tactics

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:20 PM
Senators Jay Rockefeller and Patrick Leahy and Congressmen Silvestre Reyes and John Conyers have an op-ed piece in tomorrow's Christian Science Monitor that calls out the White House on its fear-mongering tactics regarding warrantless surveillance : Our
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McCain/Iseman furor obscures the real story

Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:21 PM
The New York Times story and this Washington Post story on the cozy relationship between John McCain and the lobbyist Vicki Iseman have resulted in a predictable deluge of manufactured outrage from the right wing noise machine. "Manufactured" is exactly
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Fun with numbers

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:42 PM
Two statistics appeared today that look startling side-by-side: 1) Obama's lead over Clinton nationwide has grown to 14 percentage points. 2) Bush's approval rating stands at a jaw-dropping 19 percent. If these trends continue, Obama's lead over Clinton
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