Archive for July, 2008
Gators trump Vols (in partying)
Florida has been ranked the top party school in the country for 2008, while we Vols are far behind at #18.
(I can’t believe I just used party as a verb in a headline.)
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PHOTOBLOGGING: sidetracked
This one was taken by Shane and Ruth as they took a trip on Knoxville’s Three Rivers Rambler.
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I can quit these darn Internets any time I want!
And I will, I will….just as soon as I blog this item about the growing problem of Web addiction.
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Tennessee economic briefs
First Horizon is cutting mortgage division jobs.
Nissan offering $100,000 buyouts to Tennessee workers.
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The courage of Unitarianism
Julie Auer writes:
No, it is not a traditional faith. It never was.
Unitarianism was one of the earliest movements of the Reformation, and its history is old and really interesting. Michael Servetus is the Latinized named for Miguel Serveto, a Spanish theologian and a real Renaissance man in the literal sense of the word. Also an [...]
Those macho liberals
I was visiting with some friends last night, one of whom attends the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. She happened to be absent from Sunday’s services, but is obviously very shaken up by everything that happened.
Anyway, we were chatting, and she said that she’s just so proud of the men who took down the shooter, [...]
Getting it straight on hate in the Volunteer State
There has been a lot of discussion here at Knoxville Talks, and elsewhere in our community about the possible prosecution of the TVUU Church shooting as a “hate crime.” And as WBIR Producer Jake Jost points out, there is also a lot of misunderstanding. He notes:
There’s a few misconceptions here I felt a need to [...]
Do you think they have a big, comfy couch on Knoxville’s “miracle mile”
Apparently the NBC reporter covering the Knoxville shootings this morning made the statement (paraphrase) that there are so many churches along that stretch of Kingston Pike near TVUUC that “people call it ‘miracle mile’”
Have you ever called that stretch “miracle mile?”
Has anyone you know ever called it that?
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The Web at its worst
This is very disturbing, and so NOT what Knoxville needs right now.
A friend just sent me this link to an AOL Australia story indicating that Britney Spears is set to star in a movie about the Knoxville murder of Channon Christian.
Huh? What?
So I went and looked at the story and immediately recognized it as [...]
Support TVUUC by supporting its causes
Here’s a wonderful effort undertaken by a local blogger to show support for Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church.
I don’t attend TVUUC and have no connection to the church or other causes linked below. I do have several friends who are members of TVUUC. I have been struggling with a way to show my support.
The violent events [...]
Sam Venable: Knoxville was victim of “domestic terrorist attack”
Venable today:
Believers of this warped rationale can be found living in Pakistani caves and white duplexes in Powell. Not even the peaceful confines of a church sanctuary afford safe haven from their madness.
How ironic that Adkisson wore a shirt depicting the Tennessee state flag when the heinous crime for which he has been charged was [...]
Home video of happier times
A blogger over at WBIR.com who is a member of TVUUC and a friend of Tammy Summers, one of the shooting victims who remains hospitalized, has shared some home video of Ms. Summers and her family a young friend’s birthday party.
I am so happy to hear from UT Hospital this morning that Ms. Summers, along [...]
I do love me some good irony in a headline
From WKRN.com today: “Less Schools Failing Under ‘No Child Left Behind’, state says”
(I reproduced the wording and punctuation of this headline exactly as it appears on the site at 11:03 am. Maybe they’ll get it fixed by the time you click on the link…)
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Another Unitarian
Obviously, Unitarian Universalism is in the news this week for some very terrible reasons, but I also notice that a very well known UU died this week - and his death was as meaningful and joyful as any of us could ever hope for ourselves.
Randy Pausch, the author of the inspirational “Last Lecture,” was a [...]
PHOTOBLOGGING: Red door
Photo by Shane and Ruth.
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Local Talk Radio
I’ve been listening to our local newstalk station, WNOX 990 some in the past few days, trying to get some sense of that audience’s reaction to the terrible TVUU church shooting.
On yesterday afternoon’s show, I heard Catherine Howell ask a fair, difficult and important question. She said (and I paraphrase): Do those of us who [...]
Church attack victim issues statement
From Allison Lee this afternoon:
I read in yesterday’s newspaper (Sunday Knoxville News Sentinel) that a woman was “trampled” during the shooting yesterday at the Unitarian Church. I believe that refers mistakenly to me. I want to be clear that I was not “trampled.” I heard the blast, saw the man with the [...]
Read More..>>PTSD
One of the victims of the church shooting is headed home from the hospital today with a very serious eye injury, as well as a re-emergence of symptoms from his past:
John Worth suffers from post traumatic stress after serving in Vietnam, and according to Joy, her husband is once again exhibiting signs.
“He’s very jumpy,” [...]
How they heard
The husband of one of the injured victims in Sunday’s TVUUC shooting heard about the incident from a Dutch newspaper he read in Brazil, where he’s doing research:
Allison Lee and her daughters were sitting near 61-year-old Linda Kraeger, who was killed in the attack. J.D. Lee says his six-year-old granddaughter was splattered with blood in [...]
Our community’s worst fears confirmed
KPD Chief Owen has just confirmed that it appears the suspect in yesterday’s fatal church attack was, in fact, targeting the good people of the TVUUC because of their religious and political beliefs.
No matter what YOUR religious or political beliefs happen to be, we must all stand together as Knoxvillians united during this terrible time, [...]
