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William Howard Hobbs has quite the interesting post regarding race in the race for the White House. First, he is ecstatic that only 40% of African Americans believe that John McCain would have policies that favor whites over blacks.

Stacey Campfield makes a baseball analogy:

In baseball when a player is caught between two bases it is called being caught in a pickle. Usually the player runs back and forth between two players playing catch with the ball over his head as the distance between them gets closer and closer. The base runner knows he is about to run out of time unless something unforeseen happens.

Nobody Asked sings the praises of Nashville’s sports-talk community and in particular the flag-ship station of the Commodores 104.5 the Zone.

Doing what I do, supporting customer networks, requires a lot of butt-time in my trusty Subaru Outback traveling around the Greater Nashville Metro area, sniffing out problems to fix. Occasionally I see something of vital interest that is granted documentation in these pages, but most of the drive time is routine and humdrum.

Last night, tornadoes hit downtown Atlanta. Among other things, the twisters caused damage to the Georgia Dome, site of this weekend's SEC Championship.

Yes, they are getting old, but so is Geraldine Ferraro.

Certified layspeakers who want to preach this June at the Tennessee Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church can either submit a manuscript or a video, or both, for consideration. Naturally, I assumed a video would carry more weight, and my father, a retired UM pastor, was looking forward to taping me.