The One Laptop Per Child folks have taken advantage gotten Yoko Ono’s permission to use John Lennon’s likeness in a commercial begging asking folks to help with their cause.
Using what’s obviously a Lennon impersonator for the voice, and some video tricks that aren’t even as good as 1989’s “collaboration video” between Hank Williams, Sr. and [...]

Although this is almost a couple of months old, it’s a great explanation of how we got in this financial mess. It’s from Reason’s 40th anniversary event which was held in mid November. The speaker is Peter Wallison of the American Enterprise Institute.
This talk is about 25 minutes and it’s well worth the time in [...]

Well, the Fair Board met today, and, get this: they decided to put out RFI’s for someone to lease the track!
From what I gather, whoever leases the track will have it on weekends. The Fair Board can do whatever they want on the property during the week.
Proposals are due by the 16th, review of those [...]

I guess I knew there was a referendum coming up here in Nashville, but I didn’t know it was this soon. Thanks to some folks who oppose Metro Charter Amendment 1, I know now that we’re in the early voting period and the special election is on January 22. With me, their little flyer backfired. [...]

Supposedly there’s a Fair Board meeting tomorrow (Tuesday, January 6, 2009). But the Fair web site doesn’t yet have an agenda posted.
As I mentioned earlier, one would almost get the impression that they don’t want the public to know when they’re meeting.

Larry Woody, in an article published on the Nashville City Paper’s web site, says the Fairgrounds track is on life support, and the plug may about to be pulled.
Woody lays the blame on several entities: City Hall (via the Fair Board), the economy, and race fans. I’d add one more group to that list: [...]