Michael Silence notes that Sen. Jim Tracy is trying to pass legislation that would make it illegal to read or send text messages while driving. These nanny state laws treat symptoms and not problems. My comment on No Silence Here: We don’t need a nanny state! We need better education. IF we wo...

A good friend of this site Lewis “Gus” Crump passed away on Sunday. Gus was recently diagnosed with cancer. It moved quickly and took his life suddenly. Gus will be missed by ALL that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Last Thursday the city of Nashville, TN celebrated a well-earned victory. An English-only initiative was proposed in order to mandate that all official government business in Nashville be conducted in English. A surprisinly large and diverse group of advocates, volunteers, faith leaders, business le...

I’ll get to the discussion of the firing(s) in Tennessee in a moment. First the national news. The US lost 540,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate climbed over 7%. Back to our story. In Brentwood, TN a hotel owner has fired a man for being gay. No, this isn’t an accusation, bu...

Last week I wrote about the plight of Nashville’s Joy Ford, the country’s latest victim of Eminent Domain abuse by government. Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) has begun legal proceedings under Eminent Domain to condemn and seize Joy’s business. ...

Two days in Nashville to get over the jetlag (Thank you Natalie for introducing me to Melatonin), check out the scene (thank you Shara for introducing me to Jonah and Jonah for introducing us to Gold Rush) and then in no time at all we were all packed up again ready to head to Manchester TN for the ...

...defined In Wine There Is Truth describes a group of writers that meet at my house once a month in the style of C.S. Lewis and the Inklings. Just as Lewis, Tolkien, Williams and others would meet at the Eagle and the Child pub in Oxford and critique each other soundly while enjoying a pint, we enj...

I have been raising hell for almost a year now that we didn’t have a candidate in the pipeline to go up agaist the Great Nothingness, Lamar Alexander. It won’t be quite as satisfying as putting a “D” on the seat formerly occupied by Bill “KatKillah!” Frist, (grrr,...

The most beautiful Christmas Eve Service I have ever experienced. A Festival Eucharist last evening at 10:30pm that was a multi-sensory celebration of the birth of Christ. From the beginning note of Richard Shepherd's Mass Of The Nativity by the Choir and Orchestra, the bell ringing the beginning of...

North Carolina singer-songwriter Jeff Zentner recently sent me With Signs Following, the recent album from his trio Creech Holler. While the broad categorization of alt country is probably okay for Creech Holler, a more appropriate label might be "distortion folk." A full half of the songs on this a...