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A month ago it looked like Eric Stansell had no chance to upset Mike Stewart for one simple reason: For every 20 yard signs in East Nashville for Stewart, there was only one for Stansell. (Chuck Todd, watch out. I'm gunning for you with my tight analysis.)

Summary: Liz Garrigan Editor of the Nashville Scene; Elbert Ventura, research fellow with Media Matters for America.

The NY Daily News calls it a 'fist bump of hope.'

The NY Daily News calls it a ‘fist bump of hope.’
Fox News - a ‘terrorist fist jab‘
Would you expect anything less from the ‘fair and balanced’ cable news source?  Fox News calling itself ‘fair and balanced’ is like Bush supporters saying they support the troops.

Mike responds to a back-handed compliment singling him out in the Nashville City Paper’s Political Animals post written by editor Clint Brewer.

I guess the city’s progressive bloggers are taking the afternoon off.

- - Nashville City Paper editor Clint Brewer speculating on why local bloggers ignored his publication's story on Metro Schools blending education and religion

Thanks to those who e-mailed me on Sunday to let me know this blog was off line. It happened as one of those unintended glitches that occur when you de-glitch something else. Fortunately, the glitch only affected my blog and some other items sitting on a server that hosts nothing commercial or business-related.

Vanderbilt University law professor Herwig J. Schlunk is pushing for Tennessee to adopt a "broad-based income tax" on top of its retail sales tax.

Time was when hit with some insomnia on a night in early Spring, I might have taken to the road and found some forgotten diner and sipped coffee, had some pie, maybe play the jukebox and strike an Edward Hopper moment of timelessness.