Jack Lupton, RIP
Jack Lupton, famous here in Chattanooga as a man who helped usher in a new era of growth for the city, died Sunday at his home at 83. Lupton was once one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola in the 1970s and 80s, he sold his business for $1.2 billion in 1986. Some will say [...]
Bracketology: What the hell happened?
My entire bracket was destroyed on Saturday and Sunday. Between Ohio State falling to Tennessee, Kansas State losing to Butler and Kentucky of all people dropping the ball, it was a nasty four days of basketball. So what happened? Life is what happened. So now we have an incredibly interesting final four: Butler takes on [...]
Bracketology: After the first weekend
33 games were played in the first three days of the tournament, then another 16 games over the weekend. Over the past five days, many around the United States have groaned as they watched their brackets crumble into dust. And on Saturday, it was almost as if the air was let out of the country [...]
Brackets update: first day
My gut talked a big game for the brackets this year, and boy howdy did my gut disappoint. Out of the 17 games played yesterday, I had only eight wins: Kansas State, BYU, Butler, Kansas, Kentucky, Baylor, New Mexico and Villanova. A below 50 percent performance, plus getting the Winthrop-Arkansas Pine Bluff call wrong really [...]
Bracketology, 2010
Every year since I was 12, my Dad and I have both filled out brackets. And for the most part, I end up eating humble pie as I watch my bracket fall away as pick after pick is beaten down. A couple of years ago I had a good record – 20 picks and two [...]
Birthday Boy
Will didn’t like to celebrate his birthday. His dream birthday is a relaxing day at home alone with his thoughts and his trusted dog. A steak thrown on hot coals in the evening after spending the majority of the day as it marinated in Jack Daniels and Moore’s. The cook took a shot for himself. [...]
Gun Rights in America
Jon Meacham of Newsweek offers some interesting commentary on gun rights and how they are loosening under the Obama administration, compared to today’s arguments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court over Chicago’s 28-year-long strict gun ban in city limits. I have a sort of mixed view on gun rights. On the one hand, I [...]
Another yo-yo from Dave and Buster’s
On Tuesday, after spending Monday in Chattanooga getting my brakes done and my clothes washed, I returned home and went into the office before heading into the great abyss that is my apartment to see what my week looked like. Things always seem to start out slow, as the calendar for Wednesday hasn’t really been [...]
Killer Tomatoes
Last night, my mother gave me specific instructions on what she wanted me to do at the St. Elmo house this afternoon while I did my four trash bags full of laundry. This amount of laundry is typical for me, since I only tend to wash everything around once every two weeks to a month, [...]
My Daily Photo: September 12, 2008
I was probably a month or two old at the time when this photo of me was taken with my sister. (My mother said that this was Mother’s Day 1985…) There have been plenty more since then, but I think this is the only one in existence that we aren’t actively trying not to look [...]
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