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I don’t have much time because I think they’re on to me. Let me just get this out quickly. I’m sitting in an uncannily good facsimile of a Panera Bread in a suburb just north of Indianapolis.

As a Californian who is moving to Knoxville with my husband to help him take care of his 87 year old mother, I was thrilled to find a progressive media such as KnoxNews. I was also stunned to see a "Vote Yes on Prop. 8" pop up window appear. (Prop 8 targets same sex couples and seeks to exclude them from the same marraige rights straight couples have).

It's an extremely narrow field and it's probably too difficult to make a living in it, but if nothing else, the events of the past few weeks have given me an answer to the question of what kind of law I want to do. I want to do election law!

Caleb Hannan of the Nashville Scene just got wise to our achohol vending situation here in Tennessee:

Planning a nice meal tonight? Maybe some chicken Milanese with a little side salad? Or perhaps a fresh cut of salmon with asparagus?

Politico’s Playbook 24/7 details Sen.

Rep. Tom Lantos passed away this morning.

Rep. Tom Lantos, who as a teenager twice escaped from a Nazi-run forced labor camp in Hungary and became the only Holocaust survivor to win a seat in Congress, has died. He was 80.

Ike had been making a comeback in recent years US soul legend Ike Turner, who died last month at the age of 76, was killed by a cocaine overdose, Californian coroners have established.
“We are listing that he abused cocaine and that’s what resulted in the cocaine toxicity,” said an official at the San Diego County [...]

One fine day in 1966, blonde-haired Californian singerman Merrell Fankhauser of ‘Merrell And The Exiles’ and ‘The Impacts’ woke up and said to himself, “Say… You know what would be even harder to spell/pronounce than my own name? A word that combines the first few letters of FOUR DIFFERENT NAMES!” As such, Merrell “FA”nkhauser, Don [...]