Sam Venable is a humor columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel. The winner of numerous writing awards, he is the author of 10 books. The newest collection is called "Someday I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life."
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Sam Venable: We like the quiet type of money
Published 5/8/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 3 comments
There's a big monetary battle going on in Congress these days.
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Sam Venable: Our sexually frustrated legislators
Published 5/6/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 167 comments
It is far too polite, not to mention naive, to say members of the Tennessee General Assembly have their heads in the sand when it comes to sexual activity among teenagers.
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Sam Venable: So much is riding on the punctuation
Published 5/4/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 1 comment
This isn't original with me, but in light of the recent unveiling of the Tennessee Civil War trail marker near the birthplace of Admiral David Farragut, it bears repeating:
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Sam Venable: Two good reads on life in the hills
Published 5/3/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 1 comment
Turn off your computer, cellphone, iPad and the 1,001 other contraptions owned these days by Mr. and Mrs. Everybody Who Are Anybody.
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Sam Venable: The eternal struggle of life vs. death
Published 5/1/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 10 comments
Anybody who clings to the Walt Disney image of Mother Nature as a sweet, kind, caring gentlewoman who wouldn't harm a flea should have watched recent events unfold around my place.
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Sam Venable: Must have been one bad sunburn!
Published 4/29/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 0 comments
Get out your calculators. We've got some incredible odds to compute.
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Sam Venable: We're happy to slurp our vegetables
Published 4/27/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 0 comments
Quips, quotes, notes and anecdotes:
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Sam Venable: The latest round of credit chaos
Published 4/26/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 2 comments
At the current rate, Mary Ann and I are going through credit cards like two kids eating popcorn at the movies.
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Sam Venable: The solution begins with me and thee
Published 4/24/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 6 comments
Let the record show that Sam Venable, Disgruntled Consumer, dislikes pumping $3.70-per-gallon gasoline into his pickup truck and bass boat as much as anyone else.
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Sam Venable: The newbies don't even compare
Published 4/22/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 7 comments
I call your Earth Day attention to "America's Top 10 Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters," available at the website earthfirst.com.
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Sam Venable: All things forever change
Published 4/19/2012 at 8:30 p.m. 3 comments
My dear late friend Jody McKenry had a saying: "All things change." How profoundly true. In the rain Wednesday morning, we buried Jody's widow, Betsy, next to the love of her life.
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Sam Venable: Memories shrouded in smoke
Published 4/18/2012 at 8:57 p.m. 1 comment
I'm writing today from the smoky recesses of my mind — for two reasons. First is the huge mulch fire that has been burning just across the interstate from the News Sentinel since Sunday.
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Sam Venable: Food for thought about vittles
Published 4/17/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 0 comments
Two food memories before we begin slinging hash in earnest —
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Sam Venable: How did he find time to work?
Published 4/15/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 8 comments
Let me count the myriad ways I am neither shocked nor amazed — or, frankly, even care about — concerning Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino's skyscraper fall from grace:
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Sam Venable: Missing turkey is can't-miss candidate to join other memorable muffs
Published 4/14/2012 at 5:24 p.m. 2 comments
In a lifetime outdoors, I have pulled off some spectacular whiffs.
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