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Music City Drum and Bugle Corps
I honestly can’t believe this passed under my radar for so long. Well, yes I can- the last few months, while not the worst I’ve experienced, have not been the best…
In any event, Music City now has a Drum and Bugle Corps! As a lifelong fan of drum corps in general and proud alumnus of [...]
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Remembering Steve McNair
My wife has been in the hospital the last week, so of course pretty much everything in our family’s lives has been put on hold indefinitely, but the news of the untimely death of Steve McNair, and all of the surrounding circumstances, has been so tragic as to be nearly unfathomable.
A diehard Titans fan, I [...]
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Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners rejecting new gun-carry law
Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners are rejecting the state’s new “booze it and shoot it” law in droves by establishing policies for their business(es) that prohibit the carrying of firearms on the premises. Many are concerned with the obvious (well, obvious to everyone but the NRA’s lobbyists and the lawmakers who take their money, er [...]
Also posted in Family, Freedoms / Rights, Government / Law, Politics, Social Commentary, Tennessee, Workplace / Business
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Tennessee House votes to override guns-in-bars veto
The Tennessee House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to override the governor’s veto of the so-called “guns in bars” bill. The Senate is expected to vote on the override this morning.
As I’ve said before, I’m a huge supporter of the 2nd Amendment (indeed, the whole of the U.S. Constitution, for that matter), but at some [...]
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Nashville schools sued over block on gay web sites
Metropolitan Nashville and Knox County school districts are being sued for blocking so-called “pro-gay” web sites. The school districts do not block so-called “anti-gay” websites.
Also posted in Education, Freedoms / Rights, Social Commentary, Tennessee, Wacky Shit
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Tennessean: Veto the gun bill, Governor
The Tennessean:
The bill proponents will tell you, Governor, that more guns make bars and restaurants safer, but they have no data to back up these claims.
The data is solid when it comes to police reports, which can tell you what happens when people enter drinking establishments with a gun.
Governor, Tennesseans are outraged that this bill [...]
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Teabaggers gather outside Tennessee State Capitol
It was reportedly one of the most cheerful “protests” in recent memory, as thousands of Tennessee Teabaggers gathered outside the Capitol yesterday to protest having lost the presidential election.
I don’t like taxes any more than anyone else, but here’s the deal: President Obama’s tax increases have been exactly the one’s he talked about during his [...]
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Nashville loses a trusted friend: Dan Miller
Dan Miller, longtime anchorman at WSMV-TV Nashville, died last night of a heart attack in Augusta, Georgia–his hometown–where he had returned to attend The Masters golf tournament. He was 64 years old.
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Tennessean newspaper profiles Middle Tennessee nonbelievers
The Tennessean today has a good article profiling nonbelievers in Middle Tennessee, as well as drawing attention to Secular Life, a Nashville-based Meetup group. Meetup is an interesting concept (and also sports a Nashville Atheists group) as it is a social networking site that actually has a social aspect to it–social in the non-Internet sense.
Nonbelievers’ [...]
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Your local GOP makes the KKK look like the ACLU
The Nashville Scene for July 16-22, 2009 contains the annual piece, You are so Nashville if…. Always a fun read (regardless of orientation–political or otherwise), this year’s winner is the title of this post (see the cover art).