Tis the season for many things, including what I believe is my 15th annual Cheapskate Editor’s Christmas Card List. The premise is that I don’t have the time to send out cards, nor the 44 cents to mail each one. So I just do it, first in print and now in cyberspace. ...

If the year 2010 is accorded a theme, the most appropriate moniker could be “Nothing in Moderation.” A 100-year flood hit the first weekend in May. Nashville television says we recorded more consecutive 90-plus-degree days than ever before in recorded hist...