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Knox County Commission admits to breaking the Sunshine Law

Monday, March 24, 2008 11:40 PM
As a consequence of this debacle in our local government, Knox County Commissioners are under a court order not to violate the Sunshine Law again, under penalty of fines and possibly even jail time. Given the events of the last year and a half in this
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Pentagon buries report showing no links between Saddam and al Qaeda

Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:09 PM
Up until yesterday, the Pentagon planned to release a landmark survey of over 600,000 seized Iraqi documents that showed conclusively there was no connection between al Qaeda and the regime of Saddam Hussein. At the last minute, the Pentagon decided to
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Is it irony, or is it karma?

Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:42 PM
I'll bet Dick Cheney's head is about to explode : Iraq and China are close to re-signing a $1.2 billion oil deal that was called off after the 2003 U.S. invasion, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday. [...] Saddam Hussein's government signed a
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White House email: my dog ate it

Friday, January 18, 2008 11:42 AM
First, there's this : The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according
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FBI wiretaps canceled for not paying the phone bill

Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:10 PM
This is just too funny : Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. [...] In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence
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A sobering thought

Monday, January 07, 2008 10:41 PM
Elvis died when he was 42. If he were still alive (and, no, he isn't), he would have turned 73 on Tuesday. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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Bush protects the wrong people, and TSA doesn't protect anybody

Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:03 PM
Two (mostly) unrelated stories caught my eye today; both have to do with protecting the wrong interests. First, President Bush has refused to sign a defense spending bill; his reasons were curious : And then Friday, with no warning, a vacationing Bush
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Officiousness at work

Monday, December 10, 2007 9:18 PM
In this post , Mark Harmon (the Knox County Commissioner and UT Professor, not this guy ) lays out a prime example of blind, officious obedience to arbitrary procedures trumping equitable treatment: UT's McNair Scholars program is a superb resource. It
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When jellyfish attack

Thursday, November 22, 2007 8:04 PM
This sounds like the plot of a bad 50's sci-fi movie, but it's real : Billions of jellyfish in a dense school covering 10 square miles wiped out the entire population of more than 100,000 fish at Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, the business owners
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Electrocuted in the shower, and red-headed Neanderthals

Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:23 PM
I just came across two unrelated BBC stories that, for some reason, seem to go well together. First, there's the story of the British dude electrocuted while on vacation with his girlfriend in Paris : An inquest has heard how a Sussex man was electrocuted
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Where there's smoke there's fire

Monday, October 15, 2007 8:52 PM
Some yahoo in Poland took a photo of a bonfire with a cheapo camera, and its cheapo slow lens (probably exposed for a full second) recorded an image of the flames repeatedly folding back on themselves. The gullible see an image of Pope John Paul II (
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Curious relics

Monday, October 08, 2007 8:36 AM
The Tennessee state Constitution carries some interesting relics of the past. Article IX is particularly fascinating: ARTICLE IX Disqualifications. Section 1 . Whereas ministers of the Gospel are by their profession, dedicated to God and the care of souls,
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Meet Ogg the caveman

Sunday, September 23, 2007 6:45 PM
I have a new story posted at the Psychozilla Tribune, in which the world is introduced to Ogg the Caveman. After lying frozen in a glacier for 50,000 years, he woke up when global warming started melting the ice. He's now taking the world by storm. Read
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This is why blogs exist

Sunday, September 23, 2007 4:41 PM
Newscoma is tipsy-blogging "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Right now, as I type this, she's watching the movie and drinking some merlot, and blogging about it. Just go read this post . This is why God invented blogs. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us |
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Oil industry wastes $40 billion per year by "flaring" gas

Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:10 AM
This is incredible: a study conducted by NOAA has concluded that the practice of "flaring" natural gas (burning it at the outlet of an oil well) wastes an amount of gas worth $40 billion per year, resulting in an unnecessary annual injection of 400 million
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I'm taking up a collection

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:01 PM
I know there are a lot of philanthropic, generous people out there, so this is an appeal to all of you. I've decided to start taking up a collection for a noble, worthy cause: Y'all can buy me an island. For only $12 million, I could have my very own
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The Psychozilla Tribune is now live!

Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:05 AM
Pop open the champagne, folks -- the Psychozilla Tribune has gone live! In the spirit of the late, great Weekly World News (which recently ceased publication of its print edition), the PZT seeks to report news that is ... (ahem) ... "slightly off-center."
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Latest Minneapolis bridge collapse theory: pigeon poop

Saturday, August 25, 2007 3:41 PM
Inspectors investigating the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis have a new theory: pigeon poop may be one of the culprits. Seriously : It is thought the build-up of guano over many years could have speeded up the rusting of the steel beams in the eight-lane
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Oblivious to irony, Bush compares Iraq to Vietnam

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:24 PM
The White House has spent the last four years denying the quagmire in Iraq is in any way comparable to the quagmire we faced in Vietnam. That's suddenly changed. Bush gave a muddy, ham-handed speech in which he tried to make the case that pulling out
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Danes sort of apologize for Viking raids, Irish cool with it

Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:04 PM
A replica Viking ship recently embarked from Denmark on a thousand-mile journey to Ireland, recreating one of the many Viking voyages/raids conducted over 1,000 years ago. Here's how The Guardian (among others) reported it : The Havhingsten (Sea Stallion)
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