No pre-session dance acts. But should one break out later in the day, we have a couple hundred media folks on the scene to cover it.

Bloggermann smacks around “Focus on the Family” regarding SpongeBobGate.
This excerpt addresses the threat of the “pro-Homosexual” agenda:

More importantly, at some point, some of these people are going to wake up to find that the great secular assault they see on their children was, in fact, a bogeyman created to hide their own bad parenting. If they can’t convince their own kids of the appropriateness of their religion and values, then the religion, the values, or the convincing, must not have been very good. Ask my folks if I was an easy sell – yet most of my tenets turn out to have been their tenets – not my teachers’, not television’s, not the secular world’s.
It goes back to the core of the Dobsonian point of view here: the fear of the “pro-Homosexual” agenda. That may be the way he delicately phrases it, but it is not shared by most of his followers who emailed me. They were clearly angry that there was no anti-homosexual agenda. And one of the most fascinating things about the studies of homosexuality in this country is that while there is still debate between the creationists and the environmentalists, I’ve never heard anything suggesting that a child is more or less likely to be gay, depending on whether he’s taught not to hate nor be intolerant, of gays.

Indeed.

This whole global warming debate would be easier to resolve if we had some physical evidence one way or the other.

This looks kind of fun. Well, not the camping part. Or hauling all the gear. Mainly just the bike riding.
Anyone want to drive an RV around for a few weeks at 20 mph?

From today’s NOAA weather hazard advisory for Knoxville (less than 1 inch of ice/snow predicted):

ANY TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. IF YOU LEAVE THE SAFETY OF BEING INDOORS, YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR LIFE AT RISK.

Oh my! I’m risking my life if I walk around the block?