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Glenn Reynolds reports that Clifford Shoemaker, the Virginia trial lawyer who subpoenaed blogging librarian Kathy Seidel, got spanked by the judge for his efforts. Here's background on the case.

Kay Brooks writes, powerfully, about how the city of Nashville is trying to take an elderly woman's property in order to benefit a wealthy out-of-town developer. Says Brooks:

"The city needs to quit being the gun at the head of Miss Joy.

According to an article in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, I, along with thousands more, have been “hyped” into buying and reading the just-published book,

I have begun some research into whether or not any laws could have been broken if my hunch were to be correct: that is, if former Chattanooga City Council member Marti Rutherford used voter registration data purchased from the Election Commission to send commercial mail related to her real estate business.

It would appear President Bush is a bit of fundraising dud these days:

Poor ticket sales, expected protests scuttle Bush-McCain fundraiser at Phoenix Convention Center

Kay Brooks takes on the Tennessee Democratic Party’s attack on Lamar Alexander’s distaste for pursuing wind energy initiatives in East Tennessee:

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is what Obama said true?

At a time when we're facing the largest homecoming since the Second World War," Obama said of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, "the true test of our patriotism is whether we will serve our returning heroes as well as they've served us."

If you conduct a google search for the phrase “university twit,” what pops up is a photo of me in a T-shirt and mortarboard.