Archive for the 'Politics' Category


Tucker Carlson

He was working for the man. I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you’re on, that’s not what this is about. This is about the fact that Tucker Carlson was an employee and now he lost his job. As Bob Dylan so famously sang forty years ago, we’ve all gotta serve somebody. So […]

Fox/Dominion Settlement

Nothing lives up to the billing anymore. I first noticed this phenomenon in 1974, with Evel Knievel’s Snake River Canyon jump. We heard about it for months, and then the rocket misfired and…I think it was the same day Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. Nixon had resigned, that was momentous, there was talk about a […]

Re-Tennessee

Hey, Bob. I live in the part of Nashville that Justin Jones represents (though he is not my representative, his district ends something like 2 streets over,  thanks to an attempt at gerrymandering in the city). The outrage here is quite palpable. The Nashville Metro Council is in charge of appointing Justin Jones’ replacement. Over half […]

Tennessee

Don’t disenfranchise me. It’s one thing to make it harder to vote, it’s quite another to cancel my vote completely and leave me without representation. The day Trump got arraigned someone pointed me to the student protests in Nashville, how come they weren’t all over the news instead of the Former Guy. Even worse, the […]