Morning Press Blog
2-8
Sorry, Jeff -- and JR and Bill and Wally. I was extremely underwhelmed and disappointed by The Who during last night's Super Bowl halftime. A friend of mine swears it was really a tribute band called "The What" performing last night.
Read more...2-3
Chattanooga officials are considering a kind of "Bite Line" for city employees so they can narc on each other and their bosses. Councilwoman Deborah Scott says "it's a great idea" that would help improve the city. And it might, I don't know. But I hope they listen to the Riverside Beverage Bite Line before they set up their "whistleblower's hotline."
Read more...Advertisement
2-1
And so we survived again, hearty people that we are, the 4.7 inches of snow that fell on us Friday afternoon and evening. Of course, many school are still closed today even with the temperature going up to near 50 degrees, so that might seem somewhat less than hearty, but it's the way we react to weather events in this part of the country.
Read more...1-18
It's so good to have Wally back that we had to huddle up in the studio between the Morning Press and Village Idiots programs and do a version of "Pants on the Ground." The Big Man can still hold his own.
Read more...1-13
Only one year with the Big Orange, but Lane Kiffin's son is named "Knox." I wonder if, to get the USC job, Lane had to promise to change his son's name. Perhaps Cal? Watts? Fresno? Trojan?
Read more...12-29
It's beyond me to think about blowing myself up, but even a step beyond that is blowing myself up with a bomb in my underwear. Look what it did to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's -- and it didn't even go off.
Read more...12-7
Red Bank Mayor Joe Glasscock says he's tired of getting flak for the town's traffic cameras. He says "the only ones complaining are the ones who break the law." Mayor, this will likely be as much a shock to you as the 83 empty storefronts along Dayton Boulevard the vice mayor recently discovered, but I'm not a lawbreaker and I'm complaining.
Read more...11-24
Jeff spent a fair amount of time today on global warming. Or global climate change, as it's now called. It's hard for me to get too worked up about it since the climate of the globe, or the Earth as I call it, has been changing since the day it came into existence and will continue to change long, long, long after humans as a species cease to exist. And at some point in time, we will cease to exist. Don't think we won't, no matter what you do.
Read more...10-27
Maybe the concern over people coming into the country without knowing how to speak English is misplaced. Even our elected leaders don't speak it very well. Case in point: Carlus Mosier from Varnell, Georgia. City Councilman Carlus Mosier, who complains that Mayor Dan Peeples has "a personal vandanna" against him.
Read more...10-14
I'm still shaking my head at Councilwoman Carol Berz's statement that public art at the Brainerd tunnels has helped "bring together a very diverse community." The last I heard from Brainerd was Boosie and Dookie Butt firing shots at the owner of the car they had just stolen from the Conoco a couple of blocks up from the "Rolling Dancing Moons" statue. Are you telling me the Bloods and the Gangsta Disciples have decided to stop firebombing houses to compare the antiquity of Phidias to the contemporary sculpture of Claes Oldenburg?
Read more...10-13
I love dogs. They don't care what kind of a day you've had when you come home, they love you. If you're excited watching your team play football on TV, they're excited watching it with you -- even if you're rooting against the Dawgs. That in mind, I don't feel the need to take them out to Table 2 for dinner.
Read more...10-9
Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Don't you actually have to achieve something before you get that award? To say the announcement this morning was "stunning" would be a severe understatement.
Read more...9-29
Jeff always says we live in "the buckle of the Bible Belt." But I hear that when I go to Nashville, too. And Knoxville. I heard it when I was working in San Antonio. Doesn't anyone in the Bible Belt live over near the first belt loop? And if it really is a belt, somebody's got to be in the very back right above the butt crack.
Read more...7-24
It's Jeff, JR and Kevin now -- but 40 years ago it was Bob Rich, Seymour Duck and George J. Montgomery in the WGOW morning air chairs. We're really so much better off today than we were then -- even though it seems like we're going to hell in a handbasket.
Read more...7-15
I'm all a-Twitter. I capitalized Twitter because that's what I mean: Twitter. Follow me @KevinWestWGOW. I'm very much still learning the mechanics. I've been on Facebook for a while, but just because that's also a "social media" site doesn't mean I can speak Twitter.
Read more...6-15
Where is it you go that screams "Chattanooga!?" Doc, JR and I came up with a definite three: Bea's, Nikki's and Zar-Zour's. Doc and JR seem to agree that Merv's is a solid number four, but it's not so solid if Wally doesn't agree and he doesn't.
Read more...6-3
I'm beginning to believe my idea for a Talk Radio 102.3 Bikini Team really is dead. I came up with it a few years ago when I got to help select the Ram Tool Bikini Team. I thought then what a terrific idea it would be to choose a Talk Radio Bikini Team for our appearances. Certainly, it would make the job more fun for Jeff, JR and me.
Read more...5-8
I can't imagine how The Pina Colada Song got so popular back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I guess a "soft rock" song that talks about a fru-fru drink and getting caught in the rain works for women -- even if its really about two people trying to dump each other without telling each other.
Read more...4-28
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I'm betting Virgil Nickerson got more than a thousand words from his wife for each picture on his cell phone. They were naked pictures. Of women who were not her.
Read more...3-25
When did the rules for riding your bike on the road change? Maybe it was when, instead of riding your bike, you were "cycling."
Read more...3-11
$50,000 later, city council has heard what I've been telling them for free over the last several years: nobody uses the library. I got blasted every time I'd say it, but now there's somebody who has sold council a study that says the same thing.
Read more...2-17
If you've got faith enough to believe the Noah story completely as written, we ought to have faith enough to spare to pull us out of our little economic dip.
Read more...
