Stephen Yeargin

I almost turned this into a drinking game. At 50 repetitions during one broadcast, my liver is thankful that I thought better of it.
[Slogans] undermine whatever authority has been amassed by their speakers. There are a lot a of good things about CNN, John King being one. But the mechanical reiteration of a stupid catchphrase [...]

In chronological order:

Attended my first trade show as part of the exhibiting crew
Redesigned my site to the “New Folder” theme
Replaced (and subsequently lost, replaced again) my cell phone
Moved to our new apartment in Goodlettsville
Bought a Nintendo Wii and sold our Playstation 2 and games
Attended Flugtag Nashville
Learned more than I probably ever wanted to about Amazon’s [...]

I downloaded “Christmas in Fallujah” off iTunes after hearing a bit about the song itself. Billy Joel wrote the song but had no desire to sing it because he did not believe he had the right voice for it. For that, he chose Cass Dillon. It probably will not be unseating “White Christmas” from its [...]

Tonight, The History Channel premiered 1968 With Tom Brokaw, a two-hour synopsis of a year that upended the social and political landscape of the United States and arguably the world. From the Vietnam war, the student protests, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy to the Apollo [...]

Tired of re-runs and mind numbing reality television? The Writer’s Guild of America is tired of thirteen-week contracts and half of its 12,000 members making less than the minimum to be eligible for health insurance. Meanwhile, six guys pin billions of dollars in profits on the entertainment divisions of their respective conglomerates.
So, if they want [...]

I have never been one to ignore current events.
In middle school this interest went largely unrewarded, with the exception of a 4-H public speaking ribbon in fifth grade for a piece on the merits of the NAFTA plan. I remember feeling a bit of satisfaction when it was ratified later on that year. Naturally, I [...]

On torture …
It is from perverted and sick minds that the methods of interrogation we hear about on the evening news were born. The goal of obtaining information takes a backseat to the sadistic desire to punish those that have harmed us. To make “an example” of the detained, seeing him or her as representative [...]

Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize
Former Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel, for his work in raising awareness of accelerated global climate change. His award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth won an Academy Award from the [...]

Tonight Metro Nashville Public Schools presented a plan to drastically alter the current clusters – that is, elementary and middle schools that feed into larger high schools – to better utilize space and resources. As an alumnus of an MNPS school, my eyes wandered directly to a particular section of the story.
Several changes were proposed [...]

Ran in The Tennessean:
Nashville needs to keep the Predators
We need a principal tenant for the Sommet Center, and keeping the Predators is a far better option than finding a replacement. Paying for a dark arena is like owning a sports car but never putting tires on it or gas in it. Depending on whom you [...]