One of my college dorm suite mates has started a blog.
Judging from his first few posts, you wouldn’t think we received the same degree from the same school–his musing are much deeper than mine. But we did.
Welcome to the blogosphere, JD.

If Knoxville really wanted to get serious about its air quality, we’d see convoys of these rolling around town.
I wonder what the cruising speed for one of those rigs is?

Only in today’s White House would a man with the following on his resume be charged with being inclined to “surrender to the terrorists.”
Military Service Awards:

Distinguished Service Medal of the United States Marine Corps, upon his retirement from the Marine Corps Reserves for 37 years of distinguished service to his country, 1990.
Distinguished Service Medal, Pennsylvania’s highest honor, 1977.
Meritorious Service Medal, Pennsylvania’s second-highest honor, 1976.
Bronze Star with Combat V, 1966.
Purple Heart, 1966.
Purple Heart, second award, 1966.
Vietnamese Cross of Galantry, 1966.
American Spirit Honor Medal of the Marine Corps Recruit Department, 1952.

Yeah, if ever I saw a profile of a man predisposed to flee from danger, this is it.

Yesterday I made my first visit to the Chattanooga Convention Center. It’s a large, vacuous facility, not unlike the Knoxville Convention Center.
My question: is there enough convention space demand to support two such facilities 100 miles apart in the Tennessee Valley?
If this is any indication, the answer is no. Surely, the Knoxville Convention Center has more going on than that, doesn’t it?

Senator Chuck Hagel:

“To question your government is not unpatriotic — to not question your government is unpatriotic.”

More of this, please.