10 Things You May Not Know About…Glenn Reynolds
Welcome to the first installment in a new feature here at Knoxville Talks, in which I’ll be asking interesting folks the same 10 questions, and finding out a little bit more about who they are and what makes them tick.
First up is a “10 Things” with Glenn Reynolds, whom I once called “The Most Famous [...]
She agrees with Bill Hobbs
A few weeks ago, Bill Hobbs blogged his opinion on the idea of Harvard’s plan to segregate gym time by gender, in order to accomodate Muslim women’s desire for complete separation from men. Today, via Instapundit, I ran across this essay on the same topic. The author agrees with Hobbs on this one (and so [...]
Read More..>>Liberal indoctrination apparently not working
From Instapundit, some comments by a self-proclaimed “conservative professor” on a study he’s done on how university faculty attitudes impact students:
The main point of the study is not to dismiss all concerns about the left wing orientation of the faculty. Rather, our goal was simply to assess the impact that faculty ideology has on the [...]
Obama’s not tithing
Via Instapundit, I ran across this rundown of Barack Obama’s tax returns, with some commentary:
What is surprising, given the recent controversy over Obama’s membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ, is how little the Obamas apparently gave to charity — well short of the biblical 10% tithe for all seven years. In two [...]
Read More..>>This is the kind of guy who gives doctors a bad name
There is an interesting, ongoing discussion going on over at Instapundit about parents who decline to vaccinate their kids. Glenn Reynolds has included some e-mails he’s gotten from readers - a few of them doctors - as part of the dialogue. This is what one of them - a Dr. William Schmidt - had [...]
Read More..>>Post ergo propter hoc?
Megan McArdle, guest blogging at Instapundit, says of the NIU student who went berserk and killed seven people:
APPARENTLY, THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS CAMPUS SHOOTER WAS TAKING PROZAC, XANAX, AND AMBIEN. This is being reported as if it were something ominous, perhaps the cause of the tragedy. This seems a little much. It’s not exactly shocking to [...]
The Knoxville blogosphere hits its stride
As home to the most famous blog on the planet, Knoxville can arguably lay claim to being the biggest little blogging city in the United States. In fact we’ve had a thriving online community ever since Al Gore first invented the internet, but our online conversation has really matured lately.
I myself have been blogging [...]
Liberal fascism on Comedy Central
Local bloggers Dr. Helen and Glenn Reynolds interviewed Jonah Goldberg about his new book a week or two ago, and now Randy Neal points to Jon Stewart’s take on the controversial author.
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Giuliani talks to Knoxvillians
Check out Glenn and Helen’s interview with Hizzoner.
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Glenn Reynolds won’t be wearing this season’s knickers
Instapundit points to a really interesting fashion option for men featured in the 1879 2008 Brooks Brothers catalog. But Prof. Reynolds gives it the thumbs down:
Given my well-shaped manly calves, I suppose I should welcome the opportunity for display, but . . . .
(For those of you who were, like me, female high school students [...]
Tennessee - blogging nexus of the universe!
A new blogger from Ohio has been sucked into our eeeeevil vortex! Muwaaahahahahaha!
I’ve spent the better part of the past two days discovering and reading more blogs. I seem to be caught up in some sort of Tennessee warp because so many of my current favorites are being written by people in Knoxville [...]
Local blogosphere rings in 2008!
Today, East Tennessee bloggers are talking about saying goodbye to 2007 and ringing in 2008:
From Rich Hailey:
New Beginnings
Somewhere during the last 5+ years of doing this, I started to think it was important. I began to take it very seriously, working hard to research posts, trying to build solid arguments to make a strong case [...]
Gun bloggers meet-up
Apparently, local gun bloggers had a meet-up:
The guests included SayUncle, Sebastian at Snowflakes in Hell, Bitter at The Bitch Girls, Les Jones, and Tam at View From the Porch Blog. I got some great shooting tips from everyone, including Say Uncle who tried to teach me not to flinch (not an easy feat) and from [...]
Joe Powell on Jonah Goldberg and Godwin’s Law
Joe Powell listened to the Glen and Helen Show’s Podcast of an interview with conservative author Jonah Goldberg and didn’t like what he heard:
In essence, Goldberg takes his particular worldview-goggles and peers backward, cherry-picking the events and language of the past in order to bolster his views that Democrats and Liberal politics virtually destroyed America [...]
Dr. Helen and some other guy interview Jonah Goldberg
Knoxville blogger Dr. Helen Smith and her husband, Mr. Dr. Helen (otherwise known as Instapundit) have a podcast available of their interview with Jonah Goldberg on his new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.
He talks about how people throw the word fascism around [...]
Glenn Reynolds on financial aid
Mr. Instapundit weighs in on criticism that Tennessee hasn’t given enough weight to financial need in doling out lottery scholarship money, saying the state needs BOTH NEED AND MERIT BASED AID.
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