Getting On The Ballot – 12/1/19
As promised, my first update. I decided to walk around my own neighborhood today for my first batch of signatures. It was mostly neighbors that I know, and a few [...]
My College Basketball Top 25 – Post Thanksgiving Edition (Updated)
[Now updated with MadZee's Top 25] By my count, six teams in my top 12 got at least one loss this week. To be expected with the number of ranked [...]
Getting On The Ballot – 11/30/19
So, Fro, you've gone to all of this trouble to grab a domain and start writing about your campaign and all, and you're not even on the ballot? Yeah, that's [...]
My November Political Donations
I’ve been doing this every month since July. I summarized how much and to whom I’ve given in my September post. I’ve been staying at about $20/month, except in September I [...]
Ranking the Harry Potter Movies After A Rewatch
I've been in a Harry Potter movie mood the last few weeks and then burned through the last 4 over the last 3 days. It's what you do when your [...]
A Little More About Why I’m Running
For a big chunk of my adult life, I voted only by absentee ballot. I was in the military from 1986 to 1994 and then again from 1999 to 2012. [...]
An Announcement
I've been doing this blog as a sort of online diary and alternative to arguing politics on Facebook. If you're one of the two or three regular readers here, you [...]
Why I’m Running…
Choice, Money, Service CHOICE - I've been in Knoxville for over 4 years. On past election days, I've been disappointed to see how many races include a candidate running unopposed. [...]
Top Ten Candidates for the Democratic Nomination – Post Debate, Pre-Thanksgiving Edition
Yeah, I know I said I'd do these rankings every two weeks and it's been almost three, but sometimes you get busy, you know. The big news in the horserace [...]
My College Basketball Top 25 – Pre-Thanksgiving Edition
No upsets in the upper tier of teams this week, so most of the movement is going to be in the bottom half. There are some games coming up in [...]