Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water…here comes yet another stupid idea from a member of the majority of the Tennessee Legislature. Building on the thinking that brought us guns in parks and restaurants,...
Read MoreFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education: By Scott Smallwood and Alex Richards It’s a tension that dates to the founding of the country: In our representative democracy, should those who make the laws reflect the entire...
Read MoreIt’s official. At the Tennessee Legislature this year, the inmates took over the asylum. Never have so many half-assed legislative ideas been enacted into law in the history of Tennessee, and the fact that this many maleficient...
Read MoreWe can’t wait for the Tennessee Legislature to pass the law allowing us to get vouchers so we can set up the Scientology school we’ve been wanting to organize. Meanwhile, we’re urging some friends to set up that madrasa...
Read MoreHere they go again. Just when we think the Tennessee Legislature has run out of hare-brained ideas, here they come with its anti-intellectual, anti-science legislation hoping to get creationism’s foot in the door of our...
Read MoreIt’s not unusual at all to find Shelby County Commissioner Mike Carpenter on the right side of an issue, but this week, he’s two for two. On one issue, infant mortality, he is evidence supporting our Tuesday post by...
Read MoreOutside Memphis, all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average. Out in God’s country, people have higher educational attainment, higher incomes and little poverty. So, what in the...
Read MoreWe have absolutely no interest in the sex lives of celebrities and politicians, and we’ve always thought that marital infidelities are best left to the couple involved and the rest of us should just mind our own business.The...
Read MoreIt was a match made in heaven. The worst Tennessee Legislature in memory advised on charter schools law by the specious superintendent of Shelby County Schools, Bobby Webb. Fortunately, in the midst of its gun fetish...
Read MoreApparently, Tennessee Rep. Curry Todd took too many hard fouls to the head during his glory days as a hardwood phenom.We’re not sure what excuse Sen. Paul Stanley has, unless it’s been hit too many times over the head with the...
Read MoreWhat do you call a bill in the Legislature that would cut the number of state legislators on the Center City Commission in half?A start.Reducing the number from four to two legislators would take place with passage of a bill...
Read MoreWe know we’ve given Republicans a hard time because of their insipid law-making during this session of the Tennessee Legislature, but in the interest of fairness, we note that the inane behavior on Capitol Hill is hardly the...
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