Chattanooga Pulse

Cracked About Cracker
As a huge fan of grunge-era one-hit-wonders, I am deeply offended by the way you portray that dude from that one band [“Cracker and Cheese”]. That song they had was awesome and totally inspired me to, like, bang chicks and hammer back Coors Light with my bros. Hell, I don’t even know what “indie rock” means, but I’m sure that guy does. He’s in a band. A band that had a song people liked for a little while. That gives him credit above normal people. How dare you, I say. This means that I will be partying extra hard in defiance of your slander of what’s-his-name from Sponge…I mean Seven Mary Three…I mean Cracker.
Tony Levi
Chattanooga

No Knocks On Knoxville
I wanted to commend Damien Power for his excellent article about Knoxville [“Road Trippin’ To The New Knoxville”], and especially for the praise about my favorite beverage, Cheerwine.  As a kid growing up in the Chattanooga area, I looked forward to trips to my grandparents in North Carolina, where we could find Cheerwine in the stores of Rutherford county. It is a most wonderful drink, and I still look forward to buying it when in North Carolina. I am happy to find out that Cheerwine is in Knoxville, and will in the future adjust my travel plans accordingly.
Rev. Michael L. Feely
Chattanooga

Always Wondered About Chuck
Thanks for the column [“The Ballad of Chuck Jennings”, Life In The Noog]. I always wondered what happened to Chuck Jennings.
Tim Siniard
Chattanooga

Why Climate Change is Divisive
Elizabeth Crenshaw’s article is one of the reasons why the debate about Anthropogenic Global Warming is divisive, and should be [“Why Climate Change is Divisive—and Why It Shouldn’t Be”, Shades Of Green]. Basically, her entire article was written to say if you don’t believe in manmade global warming you are an idiot. The problem that I and my fellow skeptics have is simple: on every prediction the global warming crowd has made, they have been wrong, including lower temperatures, less hurricanes, less tornados, no rise in the level of the oceans, no rise in the temperature of the oceans, more ice on the poles, etc., and they are very fast and loose with their facts. Ms. Crenshaw, you write that we should demand better, and you are correct. Unfortunately you are not talking about yourself, just the unwashed like me that don’t believe in the AGW god.
Gregg Juster
Chattanooga

Corrections & Apologies
In our cover article, “Futbol Fever Heats Up Chattanooga” (July 2, 2009), our contributor inadvertently omitted crediting a source, the NPSLinsider blog, written by Ryan Knapp, the NPSL’s PR director. The paragraphs beginning, “Looking over their Facebook page, the value of social media and utilizing social networking sites for the club is clear” and ending with “as CFC goalie Richard Masters saved a penalty kick in the 95th minute to hold onto the draw, a play now affectionately referred to as ‘the save’”, should have been credited to Knapp and the blog, as they were clearly drawn from that source.
We apologize for the error, and a corrected version of the article will be available on our web site at chattanoogapulse.com.