Backatcha, PawPaw! (I've removed the video!) In response to your riddle for Annie, here's one for you, PawPaw!PawPaw's riddle for Annie: Why was the math book so sad?Answer: Because it had so many problems.Annie's riddle for PawPaw: Why is eating...
A guy is driving around the back woods of Tennessee and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: "Talking Dog for Sale" He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog...
“Really. A history of peach horticulture?” My friend looks at me, too kind to ask the question behind the question: who cares? Nodding sheepishly, I picture myself the world’s expert on something that concerns approximately seventeen other...
For her 1999 book From Subjects to Citizens, Sarah Chambers put her ear to the street to hear the voices of the popular classes of Arequipa, Peru from 1780 to 1854. Primarily using court documents from personal injury and...
The world of colonialism, slavery, and race in the 18th and 19th centuries can be almost monolithic in popular U.S. understandings. Whites of European descent enslaved black Africans, who were then put to work on plantations that profited whites and...
Tune into your local PBS station tonight as HDCP Chair John Bailes appears on WTCI's political forum, Tennessee Insider, and questions the Bush-Petraeus Plan for our troops in Iraq. Bailes comments, "What's the difference between troop levels before the surge...
Father-daughter team volunteer and bond By Stephen Huba for The Independent At 64, David Winter admits he’s no spring chicken, but that’s not keeping him from volunteering for a week-long service project in the wilds of southeast Maine. at Winter, of Massillon, leaves...
greetings all! well, things are not in an emergency status now - a
ladder holding up the tarp here, a slit in the tarp for drainage
there... and although we got a great response from our call out, due
to a...
I must say I have greatly enjoyed the weather today even though the rain makes me extra sleepy. But I was glad to see the rain this morning when I got out of bed , maybe my grass will grow...
I just recently (like in the last 3 months) started drinking coffee. I'm almost 39 years old, and never liked it unitl now. My parents always drank coffee like it was going out of style, buy neither my sisters...
Maybe it was just me, but it kinda made me nervous having Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, September 11, and a presidential address on Iraq all in the same week. Maybe the New Moon kept everything a little dampened. I know it...
September 20, 20075:00pm - 7:30pmBicentennial LibraryThe Tennessee and Georgia Departments of Transportation will have a public meeting to request input into the Atlanta to Chattanooga High Speed Ground Transportation Study. The study is part of the ongoing process to determine...
This is a crested wood partridge, quite the showoff of a bird. The female was a bit camera shy, though, so I wasn't able to get a really good shot of her, but here she is, trying to hide behind her...
There's no way I am voting today, because I haven't met or at least educated myself on all the candidates. If your mind is made up, however, then go for it, I guess. I recommend waiting until election...
Chattanooga, TN/September 14, 2007—Last night, more than 200 Democrats attended the Hamilton County Democratic Party picnic and candidate rally for Tennessee’s District 10 Senate race. “It was a great time for Democrats,” said John Bailes, HCDP chairman. “We ate fried chicken,...
A few months ago, a British toddler--Madeline McCann--was reported missing while her family was on holiday in Portugal. Authorities launched a search now in its fifth month, and questioned numerous individuals, following leads as far away as Belgium. ...
Since contracting polio at age 2, Yan Ling Ho has lived with pain for most of her 52 years. After she immigrated here from Hong Kong last year, the soreness in her back and joints proved too debilitating for her...
Dr. Lee Carl Whitaker would like to formally announce his candidacy as a Democrat for the office of the 10th Senatorial Legislative District of Tennessee. The announcement took place Monday August 27th, 2007 at 1:30pm on the front steps of...
Law Enforcement Getting New Access To Secret Imagery The Bush administration has approved a plan to expand domestic access to some of the most powerful tools of 21st-century spycraft, giving law enforcement officials and others the ability to view data obtained...
oh friday friday friday, how is it you were just here and now your back. i have looked forward to you since the last time you swung around. saying farewell to recycled air this weekend. loving every...
#1 No Habeas Corpus for "Any Person" The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) ushered in military commission law for US citizens and non-citizens alike. Text in the MCA allows for the institution of a military alternative to the constitutional justice...
Corals and seaweed have joined the ranks of threatened species, and more apes and reptiles are now facing extinction according to the World Conservation Union, which warns of a "global extinction crisis". The conservation group's annual Red List of threatened species,...
This is just too funny. Remember how Kathy bashed the Son of God? (And even demons believe He's that.) Well apparently what's good for the goose is not good for the gander... "ATTACKING OTHER USERS: Intentionally attacking another user is an offense....
If you're at all caught up in the silly controversy that's risen since Ms. Griffin accepted her Emmy the other night, you really have to read this. It's chock full of good stuff, all the way through the comments. [W]e Americans...
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