Author: Knoxville Progressive

And the winner of our Front Page Promotion is … YOU, Knoxville Progressive. As near as I can tell you got the most votes. At least the way I counted. Congratulations! Yeah, yeah, I know, I haven’t posted a diary in a...

Are you better off than you were six years ago? (Some memes to use on our countrymen recovering from Kool-Aid intoxication – feel free to block, copy and email liberally) Try to remember the kind of September When life was...

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. — Mahatma Gandhi Who would have thought Gandhi could get snarky?

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?  Men, generally, under such a government as this, think...