Down but not out...

The blog will be going through a metamorphosis over the next few days so blogging may be scarce. Making more room for more masses of everything.

Blog Nashville

Thanks to Bill Hobbs and all the folks who put on and participated in Blog Nashville this past weekend. One of the things that I found so enjoyable was having folks with so much experience and success like Glenn Reynolds, Bill Hobbs, etc in the same room with folks who could barely spell blog like me. Thanks to everyone for being so willing to share.

This just in...

Dang, I'm Old! My seventeen year old daughter Hannah is going to her first prom tonight. She is such a wonderful young lady, and I hope she has a great time.

Pretty Man, Pretty Room

Coming to you from the beautiful Vince Gill Room at beautiful Belmont University. Vince Gill is a pretty man with a pretty voice and needless to say has a pretty wife. We are enjoying using his pretty room a great deal. Thanks Vince. I wish they would stop playing the muzak version of "Amy" though. Pure Prarie League lives among bloggers.

Blog Vagus

I'm in Nashvagus at Blog Nashville today. More at the end of the day. Maybe...

Do the monkey...

Mickey's monkey that is. There are many things I'm looking forward to in attending the Blog Nashville conference this weekend. One of the many is getting to listen to Mother's Finest on the trip over from Knoxville.

I will also get to see my sister Laura and her family, not to mention learning a great deal about blogging from some of the pioneers.

The new phonebooks are here!!

There are many honors a man can receive in his life time; the Nobel Prize, a Pulitzer, an Oscar, or (unless you are a Tennessee Volunteer) even a Heisman trophy. But in a moment reminiscent of Navin R. Johnson’s life story The Jerk, I feel there is no greater honor than that which I received yesterday by being recognized as a member of the Rocky Top Brigade. With a silent tear slowly winding down my face, and the Pride of the Southland Band in my heart I will face Mecca (Neyland Stadium) and say a prayer of thanks.

Pirate's Code

Yesterday, the United Methodist Church, of which I am a member, decided to reinstate Rev. Beth Stroud. Rev. Stroud had been found guilty on December 2nd by the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual (regional) Conference of violating church law, which forbids the ordination and appointment of "self-avowed practicing homosexuals." Apparently, the Council of Bishops believes the Book of Discipline to be similar to the Pirate’s Code.

"And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.”
Capt. Barbossa - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Radio Insanity

The radio station where I usually hear Dave Matthews is now the station where I hear Rush Limbaugh. I thought that all that was left on my dial was the station that played ZZ Top and the station that played Brittney. I love ZZ Top, but man does not live on the "Little ole Band from Texas" alone.

Finally, after a great deal of prayer, soul and dial searching, I found the old Dave Matthews station's new home.

Long live rock!!

Great News Sentinel

The KNS has a great new look.

You’re a nuther ‘un!

Hildegard shows us today (via SouthKnoxBubba) that all it takes to be a good liberal these days is a great deal of hatred and fair four-letter-word vocabulary with which to insult people. Ideas and the arguments that support them is so 18th century. (See the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence.)
Much more important to the left is whether you have the ability to tell by what someone drives, how they look, or what they watch what kind of $#@’ing, *&%^, Fox watching, @*$!, idiot they are and the courage to tell them. Thank God we have Hildegard to tell us what the hell is wrong with people!

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Who knew?

A peek into the minds of greatness...

Arianna Huffington is getting on the blog wagon by launching a group blog with many of her celebrity friends. The Guardian has a great preview.

Salute!

Thanks to Brian Tankersley CPA, CITP who has helped me with a CPU in my hour of technological need.

Home, Home on the Range

"Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam.." Some people take their music a little too literally.

McKays!

McKay's Bookstore is reopening in its new store Saturday. McKay's is where we go for all our post grade card rewards and summer reading festivals. Clara Grace's latest academic achievement is bound to mean more Little House at our house.

Kudos to the ‘Boro

At this pace, Murfreesboro won't be a hamlet much longer.

Sweet Oblivion

Paul Krugman writes today in the New York Times that President Bush is out of touch with average Americans on issue after issue.

"Since November's election, the victors have managed to be on the wrong side of
public opinion on one issue after another: the economy, Social Security
privatization, Terri Schiavo, Tom DeLay. By large margins, Americans say that
the country is headed in the wrong direction, and Mr. Bush is the least popular
second-term president on record."

Krugman then enlightens us on how Americans really feel.

"But Americans are feeling a sense of dread: they're worried about a weak job
market, soaring health care costs, rising oil prices and a war that seems to
have no end. And they're starting to notice that nobody in power is even trying
to deal with these problems, because the people in charge are too busy catering
to a base that has other priorities."

Krugman shows us why the democrats lost power in two out three branches of government. They believe in nothing but polls. When Osama Ben Laden released a tape one week before the presidential election John Kerry actually took a poll to find out what he should say about it! The other guiding principle of Krugman and his army of pollsters is taken straight from the Chicken Little Political Handbook - "No matter the issue, the sky is falling."

Since Krugman and the left are so firmly ensconced in polls I'm sure they want to honor the American people, who when polled this past November chose to give control of the executive and legislative branches of government to the Republicans, by taking a poll in the Senate on the president's judicial nominees. But then again, maybe there not really true believers in polls or the American people after all.

You Gotta have Faith! or Faith?

Michael Barone has a great piece on the role of faith in America's future. Despite the ravings of the left that we are doomed for a theocracy, Barone sees continued freedom and a diversity of faiths in our future.

Preach it brother!

Much has been written about the Pope in the last week. MSNBC and the Discovery Channel have both had excellent overviews of the pope's life. The thing that amazes me the most about the Pope is that in every instance he chose compassion, and yet at the same time he never backed down. He faced the two greatest evil empires of the 20th century, (the Nazi's and the USSR) and he never even blinked. So rarely in life do you get to say I truly witnessed a man of God. All too often their faith is overshadowed by the mistakes of their humanity. Pope John Paul II is a man of God. I have no idea who said it, but the best description of the Pope since his passing has been a very simple one:He lived. He believed. He lived his belief. St. Frances said "Preach daily, use words if necessary." The Pope preached everyday all day.