This question could be about anybody. Anybody alive in this extremely stupid period of world…
- Chris Crofton
Sooner or later, we are all forced to engage with this noncommunicative health care system
- Chris Crofton
Let’s comfortably house Uber drivers, musicians and Waffle House staff. And fix the potholes that are destroying their vehicles.
- Chris Crofton
The Metro Council will hold a public hearing next week on approving a city contract with Fusus
- Chris Crofton
CBS’ 'Nashville’s Big Bash' featured Lynyrd Skynyrd and Rob Schneider, for some reason
- Chris Crofton
The way I feel in the winter is harrowing. Here are some things that can help.
- Chris Crofton
Let's try less hand-wringing and more hand-holding
- Chris Crofton
Public schools are an essential part of a functional, humane society
- Chris Crofton
The streets of Nashville seem to be a free-for-all
- Chris Crofton
The state’s Multi-Agency Law Enforcement Training Academy in Nashville will cost $415 million and take up 800 acres
- Chris Crofton
The kind of stuff people do while they are procrastinating borders on the avant garde
- Chris Crofton
There is a way to make a difference, and you can do it
- Chris Crofton
Average citizens are not being taken seriously
- Chris Crofton
'Gerrymandering' isn’t in the Bible, either. If it was, the Romans would have been the supermajority doing it.
- Chris Crofton
The number one killer of children in America is guns
- Chris Crofton
You wouldn’t put your money in a bank called 'Chris Crofton’s Cold Brew Got Me Like Bank,' would you?
- Chris Crofton
It turns out big conglomerates don’t care about facts — they care about dividends
- Chris Crofton
I was really hoping this question was going to be about seasonal depression, so I’m going to make it about seasonal depression
- Chris Crofton
The moneyed class's vision for America is something along the lines of, 'Cheeseburgers for the strong, the gutter for the weak'
- Chris Crofton
This Christmas, break the cycle — be honest with yourself, and be honest with others
- Chris Crofton
If I were a younger man, I’d be trying to get an acid-house revival going in Johnson City
- Chris Crofton
The good news: Your nephew isn’t crazy.
- Chris Crofton
Is a legendary music venue being dwarfed by a giant hotel a metaphor?
- Chris Crofton
Before you blame yourself for your lack of money, consider blaming society
- Chris Crofton
If this happened in 1979 you’d have to go to a roller rink wearing a huge astrology medallion to meet someone
- Chris Crofton
Capitalism does not like spirituality. It gets in the way of profits.
- Chris Crofton
I said she had Corgi pallbearers and that a Corgi gave her eulogy. Somebody yelled at me about that.
- Chris Crofton
I would describe The New York Times opinion staff as 'The Navy Seals of Out-of-Touchedness'
- Chris Crofton
State Sen. Paul Bailey sponsored legislation that would hypothetically criminalize Jesus
- Chris Crofton
I hit a very weird version of rock bottom looking at a painting in an antique mall
- Chris Crofton
You can sign up for Panasonic Peeks™ at most major carpet stores. They give you a special antenna.
- Chris Crofton
Listen to love songs, and write some too!
- Chris Crofton
You can’t bring back the middle class with guns
- Chris Crofton
Nashville — Business Friendly, Tree Mean™️
- Chris Crofton
We’re open. Soup of the day is French onion.
- D. Patrick Rodgers
Chris Crofton's compendium of advice is available now via Vanderbilt University Press
- Chris Crofton
Nashville’s not really so much of a music town anymore, Chip. It’s more of a 'hotel town.' Or a 'tax shelter.'
- Chris Crofton
Sexy movies used to be popular. Now it’s all Iron Man VIII and The Green Lantern Goes Crazy.
- Chris Crofton
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' has become a 'hairy arm' over the past 250 years
- Chris Crofton
You can’t pay the rent with bath bombs
- Chris Crofton
The people in power love using disasters to manipulate the rest of us
- Chris Crofton
We are still in the midst of a pandemic. Pandemics are not normal.
- Chris Crofton
I can tell you what resolution not to do: try stand-up comedy. We don’t need any more stand-ups.
- Chris Crofton
BAD NEWS — that’s what we all want for Christmas. We’re addicted to it, and we’ll never get enough.
- Chris Crofton
These things are Trojan horses full of humblebrags
- Chris Crofton
I wouldn’t recommend saying 'spatchcock' in front of a nun
- Chris Crofton
If Spotify had been around in 1975, Bruce Springsteen would be delivering Postmates in a 1996 Camry right now
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- Hannah Herner
More than three years since the Christmas Day bombing, the historic downtown district enters…
- Eli Motycka
The northwest quadrant of the county features rolling hills, open spaces and wildlife — and …