Author: Knoxville Progressive

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. — Ed Gardner

Been crazy again this week with work, so I don’t have anything inspiring or profound or even funny or interesting to pass along. Feel free to use this as an open thread for talking about music or whatever you feel inspired...

A quote for those doing research on climate change: Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Thoreau

First off, please accept my apologies for being gone last week unannounced; some unexpected work in the “real world” interfered… I was out driving recently and heard a teaser on NPR for an upcoming story on...

For Dove: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), quoted in Boswell’s Life of Johnson