"I don’t have nothing to hide on my tax returns"

Whereas apparently some candidates do. Or, they just don't give a damn about what you, the citizen, knows about them as a candidate, citizen, or person.

My favorite quote in Metropulse's round up of financial info on candidates is George C. Wallace who said he wouldn't divulge his financial info "Even if you lay down in front of my car." Bravo, sir, I can only hope you are as unaccountable to voters as you are irascible with the media.

Knoxville's race to be the ugliest town in Tennessee!

Oh goody, I love nothing more than cold, hard facts to prove a point. Which town has the highest signs around? WE DO!

Alcoa, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, Franklin, Farragut ALL have ordinances limiting the height of signs and ALL of them are lower than Knoxville. Check out the specifics here, and send your concerns to government.

So either we have really tall people in town or we just don't mind looking like the white trash capitol of TN.

Cruze Dairy Farm

Cruze Dairy Farm has a little truck during the Farmer's Market on the weekends in Market Square and I have to say, they make perhaps the best ice cream in the world. Let me explain how I can make this assertion.

1. I've studied ice cream a bit. I actually read several reports in Scientific American regarding smell, vanilla and how ice cream starts to go bad the instant it is made.
2. I know what it takes to make "fluffy" vs. hard pack.
3. There's an ice cream shop in Paris where the locals and tourists alike line up hours in advance for a tiny scoop of the delectable frozen stuff...

And I can tell you Cruze makes better ice cream than what I had in Paris. It's the best stuff I've ever had, ice cream-wise, and it's because *everything* is natural, fresh and tasty. Try them and see. They are now making pints!