“As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.” ― Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith I distrust those people who… Read More ›
Month: April 2019
TONY SOPRANO VISITS TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS
“You don’t accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.” ― Kinky Friedman “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ―… Read More ›
MY OP-ED FOR THE TENNESSEAN
During his campaign for re-election in 1967, Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley said, “I believe in progress and a good school system is essential to progress. I also believe, as I have demonstrated over my last three years as mayor, that… Read More ›
COME ON FEEL THE NOISE
“There is something about people who wake up at the dawn of their career and say I’m going to work with children all day, every day, that somehow, sometimes, makes them incapable of communicating with adults.” – Will Pinkston on Nashville… Read More ›
GAME OF THRONES PLAYS OUT LOCALLY
“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left… Read More ›
A NEW DAY DAWNING
“Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” ― Winston S. Churchill “After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.” ― Cherie Currie, Neon Angel: A Memoir… Read More ›
A THREAD OF MISOGYNY
“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.” ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins “What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.” ― Angela Davis Three days ago Metro Nashville School’s made… Read More ›
THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING
“The truth brings no man a fortune.” ― Jean Jacques Rousseau “The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.” ― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life… Read More ›
TRYING TO CONTROL THE NOISE
“You are what you settle for.” ― Janis Joplin The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions – Sandra… Read More ›
NASHVILLE’S MAYOR CHANNELS HIS INNER ABBOTT AND COSTELLO
Costello: Now I throw the ball to first base, whoever it is drops the ball, so the guy runs to second. Who picks up the ball and throws it to What. What throws it to I Don’t Know. I Don’t… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 