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Joshua Green takes an unflinching look at Kentucky's senior senator, Mitch McConnell, in this month's Atlantic Monthly (an issue well worth buying for more than just this article).

"...McConnell, 68, is owlish, phlegmatic, and gray, and often looks bothered, as though lunch isn’t agreeing with him. He has been described as having “the natural charisma of an oyster.” Yet you sense that this is not so much a burden as a choice, that he has pared away any qualities extraneous to his political advancement..."

A must read for proponents, opponents, and those of us who don't know what to think about the Senate's Minority Leader.

Environmental Quality Commission Requests Nominations for 2011 Earth Day Awards

Award recognizes environmental stewardship

The Hickman County Arts Council has a display in their case located in the hallway of the Hickman County Courthouse.  The works of a talented young local artist, Alicia Jones, are presently featured. 

UK Researcher Michael Potter  told the National Bedbug Forum in Denver this week that bedbug infestations are "inevitable". 

Let this branch of the Potter family be the first to say "Ewww...."

Now that the hustle and bustle of the holiday season is past, it is time for one of my favorite gardening activities. This ritual into spring doesn't require any mud, sweat or tears on my part. All it requires is my no-line bifocals and a flick of my wrist and I am transformed into my dream garden. It is the arrival of the first seed catalogues of the year that magically start appearing in my mailbox in January that gets me all pumped up and ready to start another growing season...