Among other significant matters that may go largely unnoticed by the general public this week will be a Thursday night meeting of the Shelby County Democratic Committee. The chief order of business will be the selection of a new chairman for a party that in theory should be the dominant political organization of Shelby County but, […]
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What They Said…
About Bruce VanWyngarden’s Letter From the Editor, “Black and White and Read All Over” … [The Commercial Appeal‘s story] was a good read. Even at the turn of the 20th century, readers were complaining about the violence, murder, and mayhem in the paper. But then this has always been a bawdy, violent river town. If […]
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Silver Lining
Ordinarily, we don’t address the same subject in this space for two weeks running, but there are exceptions, once in a while. Last week, you may recall, we wrote about the Memphis Zoo board’s economic impact study, vis-a-vis Greensward parking at Overton Park. We dealt briefly (and by no means definitively) with both the study […]
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Fly on the Wall 1422
Unbe-WEAVE-Able You know what is UnbeWEAVEable? Spell check, that’s what. This unfortunate promotional image teased the latest in a never-ending series of WMC reports about weaves, weave-related crime, and weaves that might be possessed by demon ghosts from foreign countries where people aren’t Christian. Sadly, we’re not making any of this up. This time, WMC’s […]
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Memphis Zoo Study Provokes Controversy
The Memphis Zoological Society has finally released an economic impact study performed jointly by the Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic Research and the Center for Manpower Studies at the University of Memphis. The study, hinted at and excerpted from by zoo spokespersons on earlier occasions, was made public last Friday (the 13th). Whether the […]
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What They Said…
Greg Cravens About Steve Steffens’ Viewpoint “Tear Down the Shelby County Democratic Party and Start Over” … The current party is a bunch of jackals fighting over the scraps left over after the Republicans have torn the state apart. They have no desire to do their own hunting. Jeff About Kevin Lipe’s Beyond the Arc […]
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Greg Cravens About the Flyer editorial, “Tubman vs. Jackson: The Change Will Do Us Good” … You could probably start a good business by withdrawing a load of the current $20 bills that you plan to turn around and sell for $25 a pop to the rednecks and racists of the world that don’t want […]
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Let the Sun Shine In
Who said there was nothing new under the sun? Depending on your religiosity, the answer is either the Almighty Himself or the vaguely cynical old churchman who authored the Biblical text known as “Ecclesiastes.” In any case, now that we’ve reached a point on the calendar where the sun is more or less reliably shining, […]
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Greg Cravens About Jackson Baker’s Viewpoint “Restless Bedfellows” … Isn’t there some mouth-breather in the Tennessee House who can be persuaded to introduce bills to sell off TVA, rescind all divorces, and make missionary the official state coital position. Just to move things along here. CL Mullins CL, I think they would be against missionary […]
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Governor Haslam’s Three Non-Vetoes
What does Bill Haslam have in common with Jonathan Swift?
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Greg Cravens About Jackson Baker’s post, “State House Declines to Override Haslam Veto of the ‘Bible Bill’” … Such a colossal waste of time and our tax dollars. If only these fools put this much energy into solving real problems. Jamie Outlaw A little injection of sanity and common sense never hurt anyone, including the […]
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Tubman vs. Jackson: The Change Will Do Us Good
Harriet Tubman It’s wonderful that the $20 bill will at some point in the reasonably near future bear the likeness of Harriet Tubman, a genuinely heroic figure in American history and one whose life-or-death efforts on behalf of equality were put to the test as an active participant in the struggles of the Civil War. […]