apple pie

I was lucky enough to be able to fill as host for Lee and Terry Frank on their Radio show today. I invited all the candidates in the 20th house district to come in for some grilling by Sen. Raymond Finney and myself. They all showed up except Mr. Ramsey.

YIKES!

Happy opening day of Towel Consumption Season!

I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend as the U.S. celebrates Memorial Day.

With a teen out of school and free for the summer, my days are mostly spent waiting to see where I can take her next and how much money I can give her.

Like baseball and apple pie.

The TNGOP calls for a detente today with Mexicans, so they can join in hatred of a shared enemy...the French:

The Tennessee Republican Party celebrates Cinco De Mayo as a reminder of the importance of protecting one’s own culture:

By THEO EMERY • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • April 3, 2008

A bill that would have allowed gun owners to bring handguns into bars and other establishments serving alcohol died on Wednesday at the urging of House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, the bill's sponsor said.

Today is my mother’s birthday, and she is thirty years and three months older than I.   Most of what I know of her I know through my own experience–because that’s how it works with mothers and daughters at first.

From the Commercial Appeal:

Although a 365-day-a-year news operation requires some people to work on Christmas and other occasions when many businesses are shut down, there’s usually not a whole lot of excitement happening.

Apple conga line: Honeycrisp, Ambrosia, Red Delicious, Fuji, Granny Smith, Braeburn, Golden Delicious, Gala