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This week, staff writer Elizabeth Ulrich
exposes the hypocrisy of the Southern Baptist Convention, which continues to bury its head in the sand about clergy sex abuse.
Matt Pulle finds himself on the wrong side of
Tennessean editor Mark Silverman, who
responds to the charge that he's a temperamental tyrant by being a temperamental tyrant.
Sarah Kelley details the
latest crackpot decision at the Capitol, which led to the demise of a crucial death penalty study committee.
And the latest in a
series of staggeringly depressing
stories about the plight of one of the state's most vulnerable populations
chronicles alleged rapes inside a state-licensed youth treatment facility.
Finally, our latest Confederacy of Dunces
column takes aim at the likes of Karl Dean, Bill Hobbs and a poor bastard with a bad muffler and a pocketful of pot.