Author: Knoxville Progressive

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man’s nobler faculties. –  Thoreau

The Shuffle Demons For me, when I hear a piece of music for the first time, one of the tests of whether it is really good is whether it transcends the time in which it was recorded – or ideally, if I cannot even tell when...

Just a short diary to alert the community to something that might be of interest that I just heard about. With the daily erosion of our rights as codified in the Bill of Rights, some folks have come up with the clever idea that...

“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.” – Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89

I had a few minutes today and decided to do some surfing around the web to look for items for tomorrow’s “Science Headlines” in the News Bucket, and I ran across an interesting little item at the British...