Archive for April, 2008
Dear Knoxville, I still hate you, too…
I just saw my credit scores plunge, thanks to St. Mary’s Medical Center of Knoxville, Tennessee. While I worked in Tennessee back in 2003, my Year of Bliss, I wound up in the hospital for a couple of days due to a pesky kidney infection. Being an hourly contractor [Read More]
You’re listening to Between The Sheets…on STAR 104.9
I just recalculated the Top 25 for the first time in four months. Since no one really rates songs anymore (listening is generally a prerequisite), there has been no need to recalculate these ratings weekly as I had been doing. I realize there was no reason to do them weekly [Read More]
Ousting Dole? Only one option, according to DSCC
Dear Senator Schumer: As far as I can tell, there are two strong Democrats currently vying to take on Elizabeth Dole in NC. Since all your resources are going to Kay Hagan, though, you’re basically telling me and a few hundred thousand Jim Neal voters that our voices [Read More]
I don’t get music, Part CLXXVII
Every time I listen to Sound Opinions on NPR, I have no idea what they’re talking about. No idea. It’s all a foreign language to me. This is supposed to be a great area to go see live music. I never go. And it’s not just that I don’t go. The truth [Read More]
John McCain’s gas tax holiday
John McCain wants to suspend the federal gasoline tax, the 18.4 cents per gallon, between Memorial Day and Labor Day. This is going to save Americans a whopping 5% on their gas fill-ups. It hardly seems like a bold initiative, considering prices have gone up 22% in the past [Read More]
Note to Indiana: You still don’t matter
Three days after Sen. Hillary Clinton’s win in Pennsylvania, a new poll suggests a dead heat in the May 6 Indiana primary — the next crucial battleground that could decide the Democratic presidential nomination. Gee, if I got all my news from credible news [Read More]
Early Primary Voting ’08
This is the first time I’ve voted in local elections for which I did not consult the endorsements of The Independent. I pretty much didn’t consult any endorsements other than a few personal testimonials I overheard. Between having heard a good many of the [Read More]
Sunday evening pet pic blogging
It’s not that I don’t have more important things to blog about. I just didn’t get around to them, and they’re the types of things I ruminate too much about and won’t write about coherently, like life and death and local politics. I snapped some [Read More]
