New Rule, or, If you don’t like this one, you should dye..

In the spirit of Bill Maher’s New Rules, I have one of my own.
When you are picking up a prescription at Walgreens, it’s ok to have the prescription clerk ring up a few items in addition to the prescription. IT IS NOT ALL RIGHT to go to the prescription counter, discuss the purchase of hair [...]

This one goes into the unconfirmed reports that you hope are confirmed file, or, He BIN dead?

Normally, I don’t get all happy at someone’s demise, but hey, let’s hear it for the grim reaper if THIS story is finally confirmed.
Oh yeah, about those 72 virgins….SURPRISE!

This ain’t your Green Hills Krogers, or, I’m sorry I didn’t realize that all these parking spots were reserved for the Po-lice..

Since moving from the greater Green Hills area to the north side, we have had few regrets. We live in a relatively small neighborhood (Salemtown) bordering on another small-much-better-known neighborhood, Germantown. The service and COFFEE-house industry has not yet discovered our neighborhood, but truth is, we don’t have to drive all that far for most [...]

If Crafton’s English bill passes, will Ludye still be allowed to speak?, or, Press 1 for English, Press 2 for fear-mongering in Japanese…

I was invited to attend last night’s Council meeting by some friends who were interested in making sure the council knew that not everyone in Nashville supported Councilman Crafton’s ‘English Only’ bill. We were told to wear yellow or wear a yellow ribbon in order to represent, if you know what I mean, but the [...]

PTI (Pardon the Interruption) Thai style or One night in Bangkok

Meanwhile in Thailand…
The armed forces commander and the national police commander have successfully taken over Bangkok and the surrounding area in order to maintain peace and order. Apparently the new bosses are quite polite…
There has been no struggle,” the new leaders said in a statement on national television. “We ask for the cooperation of [...]

Here’s yer bill…Loving your neighbor by speaking English only…

Kay B. wants us to look at the bill making English the official language of Nashville, instead of just yak about it..
Here ’tis. The first part is, as she says, bringing us into compliance with an already existing state law (which basically makes this redundant, but never mind that). I’ve bolded the offensive part of [...]

Pro-choice or Pro-life…I’m Pro-CP (certifiable princess)

Whether you are pro-choice, pro-life or struggling in the middle, you owe it to yourself to read this amazing post. You may not agree, but you will find yourself entranced.
Actually, her entire blog is amazing…frank, transparent, and sometimes funny-as-hell.
I’m glad I stumbled into the oxymoronic world of the Certifiable Princess.
thanks as always to [...]

Ugly statues, and ugly statutes

I wasn’t born in Nashville, but I grew up here. I consider this my hometown, and I am embarrassed each time I drive on I-65 south and see this monstrosity. I’m embarrassed because the the message, no matter how strained and spinned, is one of racism. Forrest was a great cavalry-man and [...]

I thought we had professional football in Nashville..Halftime notes on half-ass football

A few Titan-ic observations..The flaming tacks are sinking fast…
1) A few weeks ago I predicted elsewhere that the Titans would win six games this year. I appear to have missed by, ummm, six
2) What is the record for all-time lowest possession time in an NFL game? I’m betting that the Titans are gonna challenge [...]

Hi, I’m a 21 year old grad from an evangelical school for home-schooled kids, and I got this terrific job re-building Iraq…Qualified, Schmalified

This one makes me angry. Yeah, before I get to the story, yeah, I know that Democrats have used patronage as well.
I wanna hear the neo-con, right-wing, Fox News spin on THIS one:
In the early years of the Iraqi war (after the mission was theoretically accomplished), the patronage office of the Bush admin went [...]

Here’s your sign…

¿Conseguido ese Alan?

My heated confrontation with Bob Krumm…

On a last minute vandy-football-addiction impulse, my younger son and I decided to view in person this year’s Vanderbilt squad’s attempt to win their first game of the season.. On the way to the game, we stopped at Bob Krumm’s tent for some of the Knucklehead’s ribs and I finally got to meet Bob. For [...]

Coffee house entrepreneurs, I’m begging ya….We’re here, we’re ready - signed, citizens of Salemtown and Germantown

Normally, I don’t pretend to speak for the masses (well maybe sometimes when you subract the ‘m’ from the beginning of the word) or my block or even my house, but I can tell you, you have a build-in urban, disposable income crowd including a lot of hipsters in the Werthan Lofts who don’t appear [...]

How about ‘Thong Girl 4′…there’s so much left to say..

After reading what the Tennessean considers to be the most important story of the day, I feel compelled to give Gallatin Mayor Don Wright some advice.
Seems that the august film-makers behind the ‘Thong Girl’ series decided to film the third edition of the Thong Girl trilogy in the lovely city of Gallatin. When asked for [...]

I’m sorry, but your time is so UP…

No more time for you, we’ve got terrorists trying to smuggle penis bombs into our country…..

99.9% of all light-skinned Biblical action figures are sold to racists, the dark-skinned figures are sold to the merely prejudiced, or, Good Grief

You have to see THIS to believe it. The ‘Train Up a Child Inc.’ group has created two sets of biblical action figures..one dark-skinned and one light-skinned. Are they taking the ‘own personal Jesus’ a little too far, perhaps re-working the lyrics of the song a bit…?

‘someone who sets you free, [...]

Child abuse by canned tanning, or, Little Miss Sunshine, we need you now!

Lindsay of Suburban Turmoil has a GREAT post about baby/toddler beauty pageants. I knew these obscenities existed, but they are so far out of my ‘empty-nested’ reality that I really didn’t give them much thought…kinda like cock-fighting. It happens, it shouldn’t, but do I give a flip?
Now, after watching ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ a few weeks [...]

Wonder what setting they used, or, Mr. Bobbitt, your order is ready..

This headline pretty much says it all…

Guilty plea in microwaved fake penis case

That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight..

I’ve been milking my birthday (yesterday..in case you didn’t notice (o: ) all week at work. Despite near obnoxious self-advertisements, almost everyone has ignored my request to make this week, ‘a week about ME’..We do plan to close out the work week of celebration at the Mothership, where several of my fellow-workers will be spending [...]

Tortured reasoning, or, Let’s go boarding now, everybody’s learnin’ how..

Bears repeating - From A. Sullivan’s blog:
“As long as the War Crimes Act hangs over their heads, they [interrogators] will not take the steps necessary to protect [Americans],” - president Bush at an on-the-record briefing with Kate O’Beirne and Rich Lowry (tough crowd).
Well, one way to get the war crimes act from over their heads [...]