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Tennessee Gun Report
A run-down of some Tennesseeans who luhrve their guns: • May 26: In Memphis, a 13-year-old girl was charged with aggravated assault domestic violence for shooting her 15-year-old brother with a pellet...
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Horrible Pilot Flying J People Plead Guilty
Remember Pilot Flying J regional sales director Arnold Ralenkotter, joking about ripping off “a fuckin’ Russian mafia guy” in Illinois named “Pav”, whom he referred to as a “dumbass”? Yeah. He pleaded...
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I Don’t Think “Bias” Means What Glen Casada Thinks It Means
Tennessee Republicans appear to be doing their best to score irony points. Today we have Williamson County Republican Glen Casada, fresh off of wiping his boots with Metro Nashville’s...
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Tennessee Gun Report
I’ve been remiss …. Sorry! • June 12, 2013: A 79-year-old woman was accidentally shot in the leg by a man who was target shooting. • June 10, 2013: A Chattanooga police officer started shooting at...
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The Unbearable Hypocrisy of Tennessee Republicans
The $940 billion farm bill went down in flames in the House, and good riddance. It would have cut $20.5 billion from SNAP, aka the food stamp program. Tennessee Rep. Stephen Fincher, who made national...
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Sacred & Profane
From my local fishwrap, today: John Paul II’s ski jacket, displayed at local high school, will become a holy relic [...] A ski jacket once owned by the former pontiff was donated to the school by the...
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Stacey Campfield Doesn’t Like People Asking Your Opinion Of Stacey Campfield
Our favorite Tennesseee Republinut is back in the news for demanding a TBI probe into who authorized a telephone poll of his district asking voters’ opinion of him. Okay, to be fair, Campfield claims...
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Republicans In Disarray, Episode Eleventybillion
Anyone who doubts how completely off the rails the Republican Party has gone need look no further than so-called “moderate” (as in, “not crazy”) Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, Tennessee’s elder...
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Tennessee Gun Report
Whew, we’ve got some doozies this week! And Nashville is unduly represented in this week’s gun report. WTF, Nashville? • July 17, 2013: Looks like employers in the state are still unhappy that the...
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My Left Hand
Yesterday while filling a bird feeder I got stung by a wasp on my left hand. My hand has since swollen to grotesque proportions, despite baking soda paste, Zyrtec, ice, elevating it, Benadryl and...
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Today In Church v State
So, this caught my eye: three days after a plaque proclaiming “In God We Trust” was placed over the doors to the Anderson County, TN courthouse (not the 10 Commandments? Give them points for...
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Stupidest Investment Idea Ever
You know your investment idea sucks when Arthur Laffer “loves” the idea: Nashville-based LocalShares Inc. announced Friday that the nation’s first city-centric investment fund — made up entirely of...
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Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, American Moran
Been a while since we’ve had one of these: Rep. Chuck Fleischmann’s welcome message to the leader of the free world took Obama to task for policies that Fleischmann’s called “burdensome” to...
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Tea Party Dumbasses
In my neighborhood people are having serious flooding issues from “infill” development — that’s where they tear down one house and put two, three or four on the same lot. Naturally the extra paving and...
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Is This Supposed To Make Me Feel Better?
These signs have started appearing in my neighborhood: Insert obligatory NSA surveillance quip here. Seriously, there’s a cognitive disconnect here among people who are so paranoid about “neighborhood...
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Tennessee Gun Report
If there’s one thing this week’s rundown of gun loonery reveals is that what I’ve been saying all along is true: too many people in this state are too irresponsible with their firearms, either treating...
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Activist Judge Alert
I’m sorry, but if I wanted to name my kid Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli Lord Of The Dawn, I don’t see what business it is of some Tennessee judge: (WBIR-Newport) A Newport mother is appealing a court’s...
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Heartless
Gosh, I’m so old, I remember when Republicans were selling their brand as “compassionate conservatism.” Looks like Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais forgot about the “compassion” part here, though. Watch...
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Save Us, Al Jazeera
Count me among those excited to see what the new 24-hour Al Jazeera America has to offer viewers: Al Jazeera’s approach — more time for more serious journalism — is an implicit criticism of the other...
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American Moran: Joe Carr
Welcome to the American Morans club, State Rep. Joe Carr! Your primary challenge to Senator Lamar Alexander is off to a stereotypically brilliant Tea Party start: (h/t, Out Of The Blue’s Daily Buzz.)...
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