There’s a thin line between normal and insane. I think I’m standing on it… which would explain the big blob of crazy on my shoe.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2008
(AP) A high school coach emptying his luggage after a team trip to South Carolina was bitten by a small rattlesnake that had somehow gotten into his bag, authorities said.
Andy Bacas was stable condition at Inova Fairfax Hospital, fire officials said.
Bacas … told authorities he felt a sharp pain on his hand Monday when he [...]
Posted in Tennessee on Mar 1st, 2008
This morning I stopped at the local beer joint to grab a cup of coffee. (I know it sounds funny, but the beer joint is one of the few places in town brewing JFG. Consequently, they get just as many of the local coffee drinkers as they do alcoholics.)
Anyway, I bumped into Backwoods Bob [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2008
Missus D. called a few minutes ago to inform me, “looks like my state might be ceding some land to her state.”
She is, of course, referring to Peach Tree State’s push to go back and correct an allegedly botched 1818 survey on the GA/TN border. The Georgia bill, which seeks to scootch the border [...]
Posted in Tennessee on Jan 19th, 2008
As stated before, I’m not pleased with this anti-environmental bill Jason Mumpower is pushing. In fact, after reading this (bill .pdf) and this, I wanted to call the Donkey folks and suggest they kick `im again.
I’ll admit – I might be overly sensitive about the issue because I live downstream from the Eastman. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2008
I don’t usually follow political scandals in other counties, but the case of the Cleveland Judge might be an exception to the rule.
The resignation of Bradley County Circuit Judge John B. Hagler made headlines last month. Hagler stepped down after making a recording of fantasies so lurid that when the tape fell into the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 2nd, 2008
From the Crossville Chronicle:
A Roane County woman tried to pass off a Sharpie marker hidden in her pocket as a gun in an unsuccessful robbery of a Cumberland County convenience store. The woman allegedly demanded money from the clerk, pointing the pen from inside her pocket to imitate a gun barrel.
The clerk denied she [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2007
Dear U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
WTF?
While browsing the Greeneville Sun, this headline grabbed my eye – Nuclear Regulatory Commission Grants NFS Request To Increase Uranium At Its Facility In Erwin
Surely, you don’t mean the same Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. which was exploring a possible sale back in August – and the same one who – oopsie [...]
Posted in Hawkins County, Local Characters on Dec 11th, 2007
The Times-News reports a Surgoinsville man known by police for his fear of public utilities allegedly cut cable TV lines and electrical ground wires on four consecutive days last week, reportedly fearing that radiation was harming his family.
On the fourth day deputies were called to investigate, and due to the location of the cut lines [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2007
From News Channel 11’s Consumer Watch Report:
You want to protect your kids from every danger. You teach them to look both ways before crossing the street, how to dial 911, and never to talk to strangers. Now there’s a new danger to include with those cardinal rules: identity theft. It’s a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007
Maury County County Commissioner Bob Farmer said what? A must read!
Also would like to point out that these statements support my opinion that the United States cannot address flaws in the immigration system because we are determined to confuse the issue.
You know, I hear similar statements on a daily basis – and the [...]
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