Stephen Yeargin

We are now 24 hours removed from the start of the loud countdown to the west coast poll closings at the bar last night. I will take down the sticker on my site some time before the weekend and go back to my normal routine of keeping politics out of polite conversation. While I have [...]

Greetings from the Flying Saucer in downtown Nashville! We are here tonight to watch the United States elections play out on the world’s stage. You would think it was the Super Bowl for as many people that have crammed into this room to stare at a television. The first returns have started to flow in, [...]

It has been called “the most important election of our time” by both presidential campaigns and countless commentators. Whether this mantle has been earned might be up for debate, but it certainly has helped the network news improve its ratings among the core marketing demographics. The frenzy of the campaign has been an ongoing story [...]

I have tried over the past few weeks to overlook the market reports and the ongoing talk of bailouts and failing banking institutions. After all, you and I likely are not changing our plans dramatically even though the Dow dropped into four figures for the first time in five years. Charts tell a harrowing story. [...]

I cannot wrap my mind around the idea of a major city in our country going for up to a week without electricity or safe water. Our thoughts and prayers are with the residents of Houston (particularly one family) and the surrounding area as they begin the long road to a return to normalcy.

Right after the closing bell sounded on Friday afternoon on Wall Street, government regulators announced that they were shutting down the operations of Silver State Bank of Nevada. Bank failures are announced after trading ends on a Friday because it inevitably would lead to an industry-wide sell-off.
In 2007, three banks failed. With more than three [...]

Sports analogies run rampant through our society, often trivializing big moments and minor setbacks. We will say that a speaker “knocked it out of the park” when they receive a standing ovation or say that he or she “fumbled” when a joke is met with uneasy faces. But I am a sports fan, and cliche [...]

The Subway inside a convenience store down the street from work always has a “Help Wanted” sign tucked behind the sneeze guard. According to the nightly news and climbing unemployment, it is probably a fairly uncommon sight to see these days. The woman who manages the business (or at least, the only one that works [...]

I took some time this afternoon to read and watch Sen. Barack Obama’s policy speech on race in America. With the events of the past few weeks it comes as no surprise that his campaign wanted to take a closer look at this issue, and based on the contents of the address, it was a [...]

As is often the case with a more Internet savvy generation of reporters, it does not take long for a controversial topic to find its way into the mainstream media channels. The case of a video purporting to show a United States Marine in Iraq tossing a puppy off a steep slope is no exception.
The [...]