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The City Cafe in Murfreesboro sees no problem with the intersection of sweet tea and politics; thus during every election cycle they hold a straw poll to figure out who will win the upcoming races on the ballot.

Tim Chavez senses some underlying uneasiness with the progressive leadership of Fifth District Congressman Jim Cooper and suggests an electoral challenge:

Tim Chavez gives the Governor a backhanded compliment:

Each of us blogs for our own reasons, which are as many and varied as we are. Some of us are relative newbies, having just gotten started in the past few months. Others are grizzled veterans, still remembering when blogs were etched in charcoal on dried papyrus and taken village to village by loin-clothed runners.

A voice so sweet, and yet so powerful… So effortless… A full four octave range… Roy Orbison checked out suddenly with a massive heart attack in 1988 at the young age of 52. His writing and performing talents were revered by many.

Liz Garrigan, of the Nashville Scene, has an excellent editorial about why honoring the same old (literally) do-gooders at charity events is uninspiring and may not be doing as much good as we think.

She writes:

Hope, Arkansas: home of two of the state's more recent governors (Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee), and of some other notables. (I was just looking up Melinda Dillon the other day on IMDB and found that piece of trivia). Clinton obviously went on to become a two-term President of the United States; Huckabee is aiming to do the very same thing.