The FBI has Cocke County on its list of 100 Most F@%! Up Places to Vacation and they make sure to drop in every couple years to update their Zagat report.

Don't tell anyone but I recently turned into a 67-year-old man. My life is slowing down before my eyes. No more than 5 years ago, I was the off-the-cuff, seat-of-my-pants, hand-stands-in-my-inlaws'-living-room kind of guy. Today, I'm lucky if I can find a new answer for the crossword after I finish my morning oatmeal.

Einstein, when asked how he came up with his theory of special relativity, said he was daydreaming. Actually, he probably said, “Ich war Tagträumen.” You know, because’s he’s German. Boredom’s gotten a bad rap. It’s seen as a negative, neutral-zone purgatory which only leads to bad decisions (“Ugh, I’m so BORED. Want to run to...

When I say Sean Connery What do you think of? James Bond. Sex. That accent that sounds like he’s talking through a mouthful of marshmallow fluff. What probably does not come to mind is this… That’s right. Sean Connery is just an actor… Actor noun An attention-crazed individual who will wear anything and say anything you want them to...

There’s been a lot of talk of gay rights in North Carolina. About how North Carolina is anti-homosexual and should act like it’s 1861 and re-secede from the union. But I don’t see it that way. I think North Carolina is trying to protect the gays because there is obviously something about heterosexual marriage in North Carolina that is killing...