Category: Ridiculous
UN Decides Coffee Doesn’t Cause Cancer
The World Health Organization’s research arm has downgraded its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen, declaring there isn’t enough proof to show a link to cancer. But the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, also announced in…
Read MoreNashville Armory Panders to LGBT Community
The Nashville Armory is offered free classes for members of the LGBT community, according to a Facebook post from Gay Nashville. The armory is reportedly offering handgun carry permit course in July. Since many folks feel many different ways on…
Read MoreTSA Spent $47,000 on a $8,000 App to Point Travelers Left and Right
It looks pretty simple in a video posted on Youtube. An agent with the Transportation Security Administration taps the screen of an iPad, and an arrow randomly points airline passengers to one line or another. It’s meant to distribute passenger…
Read MoreIs the $20 Bill Change an Insult to Harriet Tubman?
So, the Treasury announced on Wednesday that they’re moving Jackson to the back of the $20 bill and sticking Harriet Tubman on the front. I have, as you may recall, mixed feelings about this. But I’m excited about Harriet Tubman…
Read MoreFeds Mistakenly Declare Local Breast Survivor Dead
A Nashville woman who beat breast cancer called News 2 for help after she had been killed by the federal government. The Social Security Administration reported that she was deceased even though she was very much alive. Deressa Marshall, 54,…
Read MoreDem Legislators’ Feelings Hurt by Colleague’s Gift
Three Tennessee state legislators have filed a complaint against Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mount Juliet, because of a DVD she distributed to legislative members. Rep. John Ray Clemmons, D-Nashville, Barbara Cooper, D-Memphis, and Johnnie Turner, D-Memphis, addressed the concerns during a…
Read MoreState to Waste Money on Rural Broadband Internet Survey
Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development is evaluating the availability of broadband Internet in Tennessee through a statewide assessment. The survey, which began Tuesday, stems from Commissioner Randy Boyd’s listening tour in 2015, during which business and economic officials…
Read MoreFeds Waste $10 Billion a Month
Federal agencies are writing checks to the wrong people, in the wrong amounts, wasting $125-billion dollars in 2014 alone. According to Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), that’s enough to buy an iPad for every American or feed everyone in this country…
Read MoreHaslam’s Ridiculous $46,000 Logo Receives Trademark
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s embattled new Tennessee logo has finally received approval from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The square logo features the white letters TN on a red field above white and blue bars. It has been criticized…
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