Knoxville Man Arrested For Death Threat Against AZ Sheriff

Don't let your yankee friends tell you Tennessee is full of right-wing wackos.  We have left-wing wackos too:

The postings read in part: "I plan to kill Arpaio first. He will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out. I promise you this. He won't **** with Obama. He will be buried 10 feet under and his whole family will be murdered along with him."

This is like totally accurate.... you know?

I'm not sure this is a completely modern phenomenon.  I recall teachers encouraging my junior high self to make declarative statements. "Are you asking me, or telling me"?, they would inquire.  Yet still, I persisted:  "Paraguay? 42?  Thomas Jefferson?"  Whatever the question, I answered with another question.

Either way, this video completely captures the desire to achieve consensus before committing to a position.



via Bookworm

Never Enough

Am I the only one who was a bit disappointed to find out that Mitt Romney only makes $21 million a year?  We'd need at least 23 Romneys taxed at 100% just to pay off that bad loan we made to Solyndra. 

I'm generally against higher taxes, but somehow...... I thought there'd be more.  It still surprises me every time I see how little money is available to pay off our enormous debt.

Speaking of which:  Bill Whittle strikes again.

Charles Murray has a new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, on the growing cultural divide between the working class and the upper class. You can take a quiz to see if you reside firmly within the bubble of the cultural elite or if you are in touch with the rest of America. Interesting and depressing stats at the link.  

How Thick Is Your Bubble? Guest Score » 9 out of 20 (45% ) Result On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you scored between 9 and 12. In other words, even if you're part of the new upper class, you've had a lot of exposure to the rest of America. Quiz School Take this quiz & get your score

How Thick Is Your Bubble? » Quiz Question Maker

I'd love my new Kindle more....

if it did the dishes after dinner, so I had more time to read.

Mission Aborted

I need an easy way of keeping track of what's happening on the UT campus.  A planned trip to the McClung Museum was thwarted by an unforeseen sporting event which made parking impossible.  I thought football season was over, so we'd be safe. UT's homepage noted nothing of interest.  What's a girl to do?