Because this week, I was sitting in Birmingham, Alabama, using my iPhone to read a blog post written by my favorite former hometown Memphis food writer, who has since moved to Seattle. Which I found via a link from my favorite former law professor in Knoxville.
That’s just cool.
(* Concept of “Living in the Future” [...]

The quote on my Facebook profile page is one I lifted from Nathan Fillion on Twitter:  “It costs nothing to say something nice.  Even less to shut up altogether.”  It’s a lesson a lot of people trolling around on the internet could use these days.
I was bothered last week when Rush Limbaugh was admitted to [...]

Want to hear something crazy? When I was Falcon Heene’s age, mumblehrumble years ago, you could only watch the news a couple of times a day. At certain, predetermined times. On one of only three channels. (Also, there were no remote controls, there were no drive-through windows, and dinosaurs still roamed [...]

Sure, I haven’t been blogging. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. In fact, I just finished my first writing “challenge” at Suite101.com. The challenge was “Pump It Up: 14 Articles in 14 Days”.
The challenge was a bit daunting… it’s a lot of work to write that many pieces, especially when [...]