DeMarCaTionVille

I normally don’t keep up with the Tennessee Democratic Party.  It’s not that I have anything against Democrats.  It’s just that I live in East Tennessee.  This means, even if I wanted to embrace my Democraticyishness, it’d be pointless to do so.  For the record, I don’t want to embrace my Democraticyishness… any more than [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, katie granju over at WBIR’s Knox Talks directed readers to a bit of breaking news:
A WBIR report on the Sam Adams beer recall:
Thousands of 12 ounce glass bottles are being voluntarily recalled because they may contain glass fragments.
The affected bottles are embossed with the letter “N” followed by the number “35″ [...]

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Don Fenley squashed the rumor floating around that Kingsport’s redlight cameras double as speed cameras.
Here’s how it started:
Michael Silence, the all-knowing blog-watcher for the Knoxville News Sentinel, recently linked to a blog regarding Kingsport’s red light cameras.
Kingsport Times-News blogger, Don Fenley, didn’t follow the link – or if he did, didn’t bother to read beyond [...]

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Adam “A.C.” Kleinheider, who until recently ran the respected VolunteerVoters.com site for WKRN-TV News 2, will on Monday join NashvillePost.com to augment the site’s breaking news coverage with a political blog.
We here at Demarcationville plan to celebrate the news by gathering over the weekend to drink various alcoholic beverages. Okay, we were gonna do [...]

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You’ve Got To Be [Censored] Kidding Me!
What was WKRN thinking when they decided to pull the plug on Volunteer Voters? V-squared was the spot for Tennessee political coverage because aggregator AC Kleinheider did something radically distinct. He wrestled the opinionated, vitriolic world of politics into something almost civilized enough to stomach.
He also linked to [...]

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Over the past couple of days, I’ve been busy doing the mommy runaround and haven’t kept up with the blogs.
It wasn’t until yesterday that I saw the post by Michael Silence: Blogger’s postmortem photos draw ire. Turns out, Kleinheider, Newcoma and Katie Allison Granju were discussing the issue too.
Apparently, Thaddeus Matthews posted [...]

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Here is a bit of news that will tickle Mr. C. Bill Hobbs announced Monday that Tennessee Democrats have discovered water.
After six years of ignoring the growing water infrastructure crisis in Tennessee, the state’s Democrats are finally starting to pay attention.
That’s right, six years after the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) [...]

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Blogging under pressure is much like speaking while angry: you are far more likely to say something you’ll don’t mean or will regret later.

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CNN reports that former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson will likely announce his presidential campaign in August rather than mid-July as so many expected.  Kleinheider at Volunteer Voters predicted the August declaration… way back in April, stating:
“He will delay this decision as long as he possibly can. As long as he can is August. [...]

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I was thrilled to discover Damarcationville listed at #95 on Wordpress’ Growing Blogs. You can check it out if you’d like. Just click the link and keep scrolling down, down a bit more. Keep going. Yeah, past the blogs written in German and Chinese…. There it is at the very bottom.
Hmph! [...]

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