Today the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, visited the public school that is across the street from our school. We arrived this morning to blocked streets, circling helicopters, heavily armed soldiers atop buildings, and reporters galore. What excitement! I didn't...
Larry Henry breaks down the race in the Fourth Congressional District, where Republicans hope, through August primary winner Dr. Scott DesJarlais, to pick up a U.S House seat.
The district is mostly rural and quite conservative, but incumbent Congressman Lincoln Davis,...
You know what’s cool about the internet? An hour’s worth of messing around in Excel can lead to a bunch of completely unwarranted eyes on my site, thanks to one FanGraphs writer.
Behold, Team NERD.
I know you’re thinking what I’m thinking,...
Earlier today I released a Safari Extension for Dribbble called Incoming! that adds Twitter-like, real-time notification to your Incoming Activity page. There were two unforeseen issues with the release.
First, I didn’t know of Tyler Hall’s Twitter search application of the...
One friend I recently converted into comic fandom has found the medium to be a rich way to connect with his young son. Every boy needs his father to teach him how to dream of being a hero, sacrificing...
I know it seems there are some themes around here lately; babies and bellies and new life. What an incredible season it is to be surrounded by people that I love that are swelling with new little people. Over the...
This Saturday, August 28 The League of Signal Mountain Voters will sponsor a discussion on education led by Dan Challener, CEO of the Public Education Foundation. It will be 10-11am at Sweet Gipsy Coffee Shop. Should be an excellent discussion...
What better way to revisit one of my favorite citiesthan this posting, which revisits a favorite theme:reduce, reuse and recycle? There is more thanenough stuff in our world, enabling such a craftyensemble of legging pairs serged into bike shorts, athrifted,...
When the Bretton Woods system was changed in the early 1970s, the price of a troy ounce of gold in U.S. dollars was raised from $35 to $42.22. This was, in effect, a devaluation of the dollar. After gold was...
Economist article - Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little Justice is harsher in America than in any other rich country. Between 2.3m and 2.4m Americans are behind bars, roughly one in every 100...
On the front page of the Metro News this morning, from the Chattanooga Times Free Press
Is Obama Muslim? by Perla Trevizo
For some, whether President Barack Obama is Muslim or Christian is still up for discussion. But a local man says...
Will it be Brooks, Casada, Harwell, McCormick, or other? #TNGOP political news later today. #fb #
@Sean_Braisted @davidrutledge I admire your enthusiasm. I was asking specifically about GOP caucus leader. in reply to Sean_Braisted #
Dear TN elexperts: Looks like...
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