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Memo from editor: ‘Let me help you so I can get back to my microphone’

I am at Memorial Hixson today with my mother, Marianne, 92, who fell and broke a hip Monday afternoon. With great thanks do I consider your subscription to Nooganomics.com or your regular visitations over these pages. I count it an honor to be its editor for four years and to post a worthy essay nearly every […]

Do we bribe students to perform? Let’s develop intrinsic motivations

By Jeannette Tulis Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about how we motivate our children to do what is right, whether it be to do their homeschool lessons, how they relate to other family members, or go about their chores. I find much inspiration at Mystie Winkler’s helpful blog SimplyConvivial. She kindly […]

If we were a free people, who would pay?

Reflections on the conviction of Arthur Jay Hirsch for the exercise of constitutional rights in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Dec. 11, 2015. You may also enjoy these related essays by David Tulis and Roger Roots Free-range motorist seeks to vaporize charges, asks they be heard ‘in agency’ ‘Fiddle man’ vows appeal after jury rejects constitutional protections Hirsch […]

March sets record for aerosol geoengineering over Chattanooga

Aerosol geoengineering is in evidence today over Chattanooga, as here a sky claw over Hixson. (Photo David Tulis) Disturbed skies as seen from McCallie school in Chattanooga March 18, 2016. Said Mark Twain, “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” (Photo Kelli Lentine) Morning in Chattanooga: An agitated and […]

Commoners take licks, hope for best as Marceaux argues before Judge Lasley

Basil Marceaux, the night’s most noted defendant, argues a point in Soddy-Daisy sessions court Tuesday as Judge Marty Lasley waits to fire back. (Photo David Tulis) Sessions court meets every Tuesday in the north Hamilton County town of Soddy-Daisy, its judge mild mannered but coming to the bench with a list of minimum expectations. (Photo […]

Gardenhire kills ‘constitutional carry’ by ‘blowing smoke,’ Harris says

Sen. Todd Gardenhire takes the GOP establishment’s position against the right to bear arms. (Photo Nashvillepublicradio.org) On March 8, 2016, Sen. Todd Gardenhire helped kill so-called constitutional carry in Tennessee in a Senate judiciary committee vote. Or nonvote. Sen. Gardenhire declined to say yay or nay on the proposal that would have allowed all law-abiding […]

A night in Soddy-Daisy city court: Lasley corrals herd of petty defendants

A murder defendant stands before Judge Mart Lasley in Soddy-Daisy city court in 2012. Most defendants appear for victimless petty offenses. (Photo VLB Productions on YouTube) The ugly spat between Brittney Parker and Roy Corder, 29, continues in a neon-lit courtroom in Soddy-Daisy, with the judge playing uncle and scold and town cops tossing in […]

GOP’s Gardenhire won’t lift pinkie for right to bear arms in Tennessee

On March 8, 2016, Sen. Todd Gardenhire killed so-called constitutional carry in Tennessee in a Senate judiciary committee vote. Or nonvote. The senator “passed” on a proposal that would have allowed all law-abiding citizens of Tennessee to carry a firearm on their person without giving first an OK and a license from Gov. Haslam’s department […]

Sideways smokestacks 5 days straight: Haze covers city as jets steak skies

Cough, cough, cough! Nashville is heavily treated March 8. (Photo Misty Rochelle, Chemtrails Global Skywatch) Artificial clouds are laid down one day this week over Knoxville like a carpet. Note the edge. (Photo Marla Stair-Wood) This treated sky in Sullivan County, Tenn., this week is either beautiful or sickening, depending on what you know about […]