A few weeks back, we used this space to look mildly askance at state Attorney General Herb Slatery for a bit of what we perceived as waffling on the matter of laws denying bathroom preference to transgenders. Slatery, we noted, had interceded unmistakably during the 2016 session of the General Assembly to prevent passage of […]
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About Jackson Baker’s Politics column, “Settle the Carson Matter!” … Mr. Kustoff, if you can singlehandedly end Obamacare, stop illegal immigration, and destroy radical Islamists, there’s no reason to wait until Election Day. Please, sir, put on your cape, and fix all our problems immediately. Having done so, you will no doubt win by acclamation. Boris […]
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Fly on the Wall 1429
Cheese Crime There needs to be an addendum to the old saying “Don’t cry over spilled milk.” Don’t stab people over spilled cheese dip, especially if it’s not Pancho’s. Seriously people, don’t do that. An unidentified 35-year-old Memphis woman was rushed into surgery at Methodist hospital Sunday morning after she wrecked the car she was […]
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No to Requiring City Residency for City Employees
When Martavius Jones was a member of the old Memphis City Schools board, he came across as a generally forward-looking public official.
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Greg Cravens About Toby Sells’ post, “House Dems Stage Sit-in for Gun Vote” … A bunch of old folks with money and power decided to sit on the floor until their butts got numb, and then decided to call it off and congratulate themselves, as if they had actually accomplished something. And they complained about […]
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TN AG Should Clarify Transgender Policy
Memphis was favored last week with a visit from state Attorney General Herb Slatery — who turns out, by the way, to have a brother living here and, in a luncheon address to members of the rotary Club of Memphis, said some appropriately nice things about his host city. In almost every way, in fact, General […]
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Greg Cravens About Toby Sells’ cover story, “Bike Memphis!” … I enjoyed reading Toby Sells’ “Bike Memphis!” article. It made me want to get out and ride. I didn’t see anything in it about the Hightailers, though — the biggest cycling club in Memphis. They’ve contributed to the success of cycling in Memphis, simply by […]
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Lessons From the Orlando Tragedy
Readers of this week’s issue will note a couple of pieces, including this one, devoted to the unspeakable weekend tragedy in Orlando, in which at least 50 people died during an armed assassin’ s murderous spree at a gay-oriented night club and another 50-odd were injured, some critically. There is good reason for such close […]
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Greg Cravens About Jackson Baker’s Politics column, “Is Terry Roland a Bully?” … There’s a certain mental framework that comes from growing up watching too much wrestling on television. Maybe that’s Roland’s issue here. Ritual exaggerated violence for entertainment encourages a certain bombast and swagger that substitutes for developing the subtler skills of rhetorical debate […]
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Greg Cravens About Bruce VanWyngarden’s Letter From the Editor, “Playing the Long Game” … I get all my news from an RSS feed covering a wide range of sources and then repost the stories that I think would be relevant to my particular list of friends and followers. I am guilty of reposting a lot […]
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Homicide Wave: Memphis is Up Against It
Apropos Memphis’ homicide wave: To put it bluntly, we are indeed up against it — the “we” including Mayor Jim Strickland, his interim Police Director Michael Rallings, the members of the Memphis City Council, and … who else? Oh, yes, that “we” includes us, all the residents and businesses of Memphis and Shelby County, and […]
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Greg Cravens About Bianca Phillips’ post, “Tennessee Suing Obama Administration Over Transgender School Guidance” … I’m just surprised that Wisconsin is part of the Confederacy supporting “states rights” this time around. The rest of them could be taken en bloc from the old South from 150 years ago. Thoughtful Thoughtful, Wisconsin is not a surprise […]