gripe

Knox County Commissioners jumped from the ropes and put the atomic elbow to the toll road idea.  The vote?  18-1 against the blasted idea! But there’s always a but in there somewhere…

Well the snow and ice that were predicted for the third time in less than a week, never materialized. From this point forward, I think I'm just going to do it the old fashioned way: look out a window!

So the way I see it, if the state’s going to bleed me try with a 9.25% sales tax (really? I’ll pay you 10 cents on the dollar for the privilege of buying stuff? kewl.) least they can do is use the money for stuff that I need like roads and horse farms and stuff. Anyway, State law mandates that $110 of the sales tax it collects funnels back into a city for every living human being it can lay claim to.

I will be the first to admit it: TinyE is a curmudgeon. Yeah, I try my best to play well with others but my patience for the cesspool of human debris that inhabits our fine planet alongside me can sometimes wear very thin. Maybe that statement is a little strong for such a minor infraction as today’s gripe but in the spirit of the curmudgeon, I will let it stand.

What compels a grown man (apparently in physical attributes only) to wear a