Miscellaneous

Atlas Lines: Scum of the Earth, August 02, 2004
Atlas Lines refuses to return $30,000 of Operation Give's money. Don't ever do business with Atlas Lines. Atlas Lines is scum of the earth. They've made $30,000 disappear that belongs to a charity whose only purpose is to bring toys...

Movie Review, July 26, 2004
Had a chance to see The Bourne Supremacy this weekend. I love spy thrillers, and enjoyed it a lot. I agree with this review and this review and this review of the film. My wife hated it for all the...

The Things I'd Blog If I Was Blogging Today, July 18, 2004
Here's a few of the things I'd be blogging about today if I wasn't being lazy: From FactCheck.org: Economy Producing Mostly Bad Jobs? Not so fast. A new set of figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show HIGHER-paying jobs...

Prison's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose, July 16, 2004
[Graphic by Adrian Constant]...

Really?, July 15, 2004
Headline in today's Nashville City Paper: Night sky topic of astronomers...

LinkFest, July 13, 2004
I'm getting more emails with links to promising blog posts, and run across more appealing things in my forays around the blogosphere, than I can possibly respond to or post on each day, so here's a brief list of some...

A Fine Discovery, July 12, 2004
I just discovered that a cousin of mine who I roomed with one year in college a few years two decades ago this fall is moving from the parched flatlands of West Texas, where he's been an English professor, to...

Day Job, June 23, 2004
"So, Bill. You post a lot of stuff on your blog. Do you have a real job?" "Yes" "Whaddya do?" "I work in the marketing and PR office of Belmont University, a school of about 4,000 students in Nashville. I...

Cool, June 21, 2004
I'm a verb. May it spread far and wide in the blogosphere......

More Bang for the Blog, June 15, 2004
An advertising executive says advertising on blogs is a smart move....

Of Blog Ads and Reagan, June 08, 2004
Donald Sensing reports proof that Blogads are a cost-effective way to advertise. He also assesses the Reagan legacy in a long and very good essay of the type you won't find in the major media. Which is probably why more...

Legislating From the Squad Car, June 07, 2004
We've all heard about "activist judges" who legislate from the bench. In Nashville, apparently, some city police are now legislating from inside their squad cars. In a letter to the editor in today's Nashville City Paper, a a reader/writer named...

Great Inventions, June 04, 2004
Fire. The Wheel. Coffee. The Brew 'N Go....

Artillery Fire, June 02, 2004
Donald Sensing seems to have ended his break and the good Reverend is now back and blogging up a storm about baseball, pretty girls, the war and more. Lots more. Go here and read and scrolls and read and scroll...

The Big Four Oh!, June 02, 2004
Depending on who you talk to, either my life began today or it's all downhill from here. UPDATE Happy Birthday to we....

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Won't Rise Agin', June 01, 2004
Donald Sensing says the South won. Hah....

The Day After Today, June 01, 2004
I turn 40 tomorrow. Not later this year. Not in a few months. Not even a few weeks from now, or next week. Tomorrow. 40. Tomorrow. Sympathy gifts welcomed.It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the...

Memories, May 29, 2004
Back when I was a kid, my parents took me here. It was cold. And on the way down - at night - we could see thunderstorms off in the distance in the sky below us. Incredible. Speaking of Colorado,...

Argh, May 26, 2004
I just glanced at the calendar and realized that I turn 40 in less than a week. Tuesday, June 2, at around 6 a.m. Sympathy cards and gifts accepted. It seems like I turned 30 just a few days ago....

Oops, May 26, 2004
Disregard the previous item. HobbsOnline isn't mentioned in Tim Chavez's newspaper column today, and the issue of the legislature exceeding the state constitution's cap on the annual growth of government spending isn't addressed. Perhaps in a future column...?...

Blog Tour ... and more, May 25, 2004
Hugh Hewitt is taking a "media break" until June 3. Meanwhile, he's published a pretty good list of blogs you should read regularly. (I'd have loved to have been on that list!) Hewitt's right - read those blogs and you'll...

Um, Excuse Me?, May 22, 2004
As I mentioned below, I'm not blogging much today. This morning I participated in a mass bike ride along some new bike trails in the city of Nashville. Before the start, the politicians felt the need to speak. Nashville's mayor...

A Michael Williams Grab Bag, May 13, 2004
Michael Williams is one of my favorite bloggers. Today, he is wondering if the large number of American soldiers and civilians current serving or working in Iraq are represented in presidential election opinion polls - and whether, a la Vietnam,...

A Right Minded Blog, May 10, 2004
Check out Mark A. Rose's blog, where he also posts links to his columns published in the Lebanon Democrat, a newspaper in Nashville's eastern suburb of Wilson County. Mark writes about a lot of the same Tennessee issues that I...

Media Notes, May 03, 2004
A lot of good new stuff over at Terry Heaton's media-crit blog, ranging from Ted Kopple's victim-fest to why news organizations should release breaking news during the day instead of holding it for the evening news, to a resounding endorsement...

Recommended Blog, April 21, 2004
Just ran across a really good blog I hadn't seen before. It's called doubleplusgood infotainment. Check it out - you'll be glad you did....

Good News, April 13, 2004
My son Bennett, now 19 months old, was tested Tuesday morning for cystic fibrosis. The test result was negative, which is positive. Thank the good Lord for that. We now resume our regularly scheduled blogging......

Condi in Nashville, April 13, 2004
National Security Adviser Dr. Condoleeza Rice will speak in Nashville May 13 as the commencement speaker at Vanderbilt University. After four years of being spoon-fed politically correct leftwing pap, the graduates are going to hear actual truth. The graduation ceremonies...

Newbie, April 13, 2004
Robert Prather has added a co-blogger to Insults Unpunished. His first post implies Blaise Pascal might have been a blogger had he lived now....

My Google Myself, March 29, 2004
Interesting story about Google in the Tampa Trib today.If you haven't tried it yet, you will. Google yourself, that is. Vanity searching your own name is among the most popular ways to exercise Google. A survey by the Pew Internet...

A Community of Friends Who Haven't Met Yet, March 22, 2004
Blogger Scott Elliott, who lost his parents in Iraq, has responded to an outpouring of condolences from around the blogosphere.The news of my parents' death has been received by millions the world over. Many have responded with notes of sympathy...

Art News, March 22, 2004
The single largest ever public exhibition of the works of famed sculptor Frederick Hart, whose famed relief sculptures grace the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. - where President Bush delivered his stirringly eloquent address a few days after the September...

Calling Capitol Hill, March 19, 2004
HobbsOnline welcomes TheCapitol.net as its newest advertiser. TheCapitol.net ad running over on the right side column (scroll down) promotes the publisher's Congressional Directory 2004, one of several helpful publications they produce. The directory of members of the US Senate...

The Open Road, March 17, 2004
Are you a blogger and an avid bicyclist? I'm looking for you to become a contributor to Open Road, a new blog about bicycling that I'm launching here at www.billhobbs.com. It will be hosted, temporarily, as a subdomain of my...

Only 65 Remain..., March 16, 2004
The I Think, Therefore I Blog bumper stickers are going fast - 30 are spoken for, not including the five I'll keep, which means 65 thinking bloggers still have time to nab one. Cost: $5. Purchase via PayPal by...

Blogger Hits Big-Time, March 15, 2004
Donald Sensing's column on same-sex marriage is online at OpinionJournal.com, the Wall Street Journal's online commentary site. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but Sensing's stuff is always thoughtful and well written. Sensing says same-sex marriage will not cause...

Solar System Sprawl, March 15, 2004
Earth is the third of nine ten planets orbiting the sun....

Get 'Em While They Last, March 13, 2004
You still have time to get one of the limited-edition I Think, Therefore I Blog bumper stickers. I'm only having 100 printed, and there are fewer than that left. They are only $5. What are you waiting for? You can...

They're Going Fast, March 12, 2004
If you blog, you need the I Think, Therefore I Blog bumper sticker, offered for $5. Only 100 will be printed - and fewer than 100 are left unspoken for. You can purchase via PayPal by clicking the Buy Now...

I Think, Therefore I Blog, March 11, 2004
Thinkers blog - that's the message of a new bumper sticker I'm offering here at HobbsOnline that reads: I Think, Therefore I Blog. Each 2.5x9-inch sticker, printed on waterproof PVC, costs $5 and can be ordered online, or through the...

27 Helicopters Headed ???, March 11, 2004
Driving home from work this evening, I saw a line of military helicopters fling east-to-west. Too high to tell if they were Blackhawks or some other kind of chopper, but there were 27 of them passing over I-65 near the...

Bicycle Bloggers, March 10, 2004
I'm buying a new bike this month - click the picture to see which one - and after a four-year hiatus from regular road cycling, I intend to prepare over the next couple of years to eventually ride across the...

Happy Birthday, Texas, March 04, 2004
Joe Carter over at EvangelicalOutpost.com, a great blog I just discovered, is wishing Texas Happy Birthday. EvangelicalOutpost is going on my blogroll and into my "check daily" list....

Have A James Brown Moment, February 27, 2004
Wanna do something nice? Go here, and drop something in the tip jar. Why? Because. Because the blogosphere is a group of friends who just haven't met in person yet, and you don't want to miss the party. Because helping...

Who Said It?, February 23, 2004
Who wrote this back on Jan. 15?With Hobbs and InstaPundit starting to trash him, and Drudge playing catch up, and even Atrios being a little critical today, clearly Wesley Clark is building some big mo.As my Daddy often said, if...

Random Goodness, February 23, 2004
John Weidner, who ought to be on your daily blog-reading list, has posted several very interesting things lately. Most recently, he's tapdanced all over Kevin Drum, one of the Left's favorite liars bloggers, about the politicization of environmental science. A...

The Need for Speed, February 23, 2004
USA Today on the rising tide of speeding on American roads:It's the great paradox of the American road. Traffic is getting heavier, there's less open road, and gasoline costs more. That should slow us down. But we want to drive...

Good Stuff, February 16, 2004
Michael Williams explains how to tell if you're an idiot, reveals just who is objecting to urging teens to abstain from sex, and expands on a Donald Sensing post about whether we'll continue to be a nation governed by laws,...

Deadly Stats, February 14, 2004
I've never liked hospitals - they make me nervous. Even going into one to visit someone who is a patient leaves me feeling very unsettled. Now I have a good reason: because hospitals are dangerous. Convention medicine kills more people...

Ring of Truth, February 13, 2004
I just learned that a book - Ring of Fire: A Tribute to Johnny Cash - written by my good friend and former editor, Brian Mansfield, has been nominated for a Belmont Book Award at the university where I work....

Great Inventions, February 11, 2004
Fire. The Wheel. And iTunes. I just logged on and used Apple's digital music store for the first time tonight. Amazing. This is the way music should be sold - a la carte. Blogging will be light until my credit...

Immigration News, February 10, 2004
In all the swirling debate over President Bush's plan for a "guest worker" program for currently-illegal immigrants, it's worth noting that immigration is not all bad. Immigration is good for the real estate industry. (Though we do wish they'd move...

New Blog, February 04, 2004
Check out Ryne McClaren's blog. He deserves a lot more inbound links than he currently has. Looks like another one for the blogroll......

A Terror Attack in DC?, February 03, 2004
How long before some wacko Lefty suggests the ricin attack on Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist was a bit of nefarious political strategery from the Bush administration? My prediction: not long....

The Real Gun Nuts, January 22, 2004
The gun control crowd likes to label the Second Amendment crowd "gun nuts." But in areas where the indigenous predators are extremely dangerous to humans, the real gun nuts are the folks who aren't carrying one. Of course, there are...

Roger That, January 21, 2004
I once worked with a guy named Roger Abramson, a really smart guy, a conservative lawyer, who you could set off on a humorous rant merely by saying something nice about Canada. I think he'd like this - especially the...

Just Using My Free Speech Right, January 10, 2004
Rich Hailey is right:Only in America could somebody drive to a presidential event, assemble in a large group, call the president a liar, fool, criminal, and murderer, chat politely with the police security present at the event, hop back into...

Help!, January 08, 2004
I need help from a reader or fellow blogger in Southern California. Specifically, I need you to get me five copies of today's Los Angeles Times sports section, and mail them to me. I'll reimburse you for the cost. Please...

Some Folks STILL Don't Get It, January 07, 2004
The San Diego Tribune has some good coverage of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State speech, though the story reflects that some people just don't quite get what happened in the recall election that put the former actor...

Schwarzenegger's Speech, January 07, 2004
Michael Williams analyzes California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State speech and finds it refreshing, especially the Governator's remarks on the state budget crisis......

Great President, January 03, 2004
Dave Johnson over at LeftCoastConservative.com reports, "The 'Great President' Googlebomb originally conceived by Bill Hobbs and executed by Blogs for Bush was successful!" You can run a Google search for "great president" and see just how successful. I did start...

Out on a Limb, January 02, 2004
Jeff Cornwall has some predictions for 2004....

Not Planning for Failure, December 08, 2003
I'm launching a new web project... From now on, I will refer to George W. Bush as a great President at least once a day on my blog. Why, you ask? Well, someone came up with the idea to link...

Licensing Illegals is a Risky Road, December 02, 2003
Licensing Illegals is a Risky Road Here's an editorial criticizing the giving of driver's licenses to illegal aliens.Taking the "practical" route of giving licenses to illegal immigrants who now drive without them will only further encourage more Mexicans and others...

News from the Hobbs Ranch, March 31, 2003
We closed on a house today. All of the long hours of looking at houses for sale in subdivision after subdivision, scanning realtracs, getting our Realtor to spend his Saturdays showing us home after home after home, each time trying...