I am a native Nashvillian. Proud to be so. That doesn't sound like such a big deal if you don't realise that about half of the current population in Nashville (and middle Tennessee in general) is imported, but it is. And no, I don't mean imported from Mexico, I mean from other places this side of the border.

Whenever I get to travel to a like sized 'burg, say Atlanta, Louisville, or maybe Cincinnati, I make it a point to pick up a newspaper, especially a Sunday edition. Because it will be a real newspaper, worth reading, with actual content compared to the thing that they publish here under the moniker of a newspaper.

Case in point:

Let me set this up for you a bit.....A couple week-ends ago President George Bush was in the Middle East predicting/negotiating peace, he was also visiting Saudia-Arabia and selling them 20 billion (20 billion!!!) dollars worth of weapons, and Sri-Lanka was bombing the shit out of somebody else. At the same time the DOW stock market was beginning it's current Pee Wee Herman act in a movie theater and going down, down, down........

But on that same Sunday, The Tennesean newspaper, in all their infinite wisdom had it's priorities in a totally different sort of realm. Their lead middle front-page big-picture photo and story dealt with the current woes of NASCAR.....

What?