The University of Tennessee is investigating a tweet by one of its law professors after the faculty member and contributing columnist for USA TODAY and the Knoxville News Sentinel urged motorists to run over demonstrators blocking traffic in Charlotte, N.C….
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Two Easy Ways to Improve Your Coffee
Some home baristas go all out. They have coffee makers and grinders that cost hundreds of dollars, buy only the finest specialty beans, and labor over their pour-overs like they’re birthing a child. Other people just want to down a…
Read MoreDid This Professor Go Too Far?
Popular UT Professor Glenn Reynolds responded to the BLM protestors’ blocking of traffic with this tweet: Do you share his sentiment, or do you think he went too far?
Read MoreBelmont University: No Free Speech for Students
Belmont University has issued a statement in response to a racist social media post made by a freshman student. The school first issued a statement on university Facebook page, stating “we reject comments rooted in racism or bigotry. This is…
Read MoreConsumer Victory as Metro Council Opens Door for Google Fiber to Advance
Metro Council has passed what’s been commonly referred to as the Google Fiber bill. The One Touch Make Ready bill almost ensures that Google Fiber comes to Nashville. Nashville Mayor Megan Barry released the following statement regarding the bill: “One…
Read MoreIntellectual Idiots
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar…
Read MoreAfter the Panic: Understanding Pipeline Distribution Networks
More than 70 percent of the Tennessee’s gas — and almost of all of what comes into Middle Tennessee — is handled by one company. So this week’s shortage at gas stations show how reliant the region is on a…
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