I’m pleased to see that the Metro Nashville Police Department has arrested the primary suspect in the two murders committed at Bellacino’s in West Meade Friday night. This is a brutal, horrible act, and I hope justice will be served.*

Note the comments thread that is developing in response to the Tennessean’s breaking news item. I don’t want to include the full text of the hateful and shameful remarks that are being posted, but I have included a screen capture (above; click to see full size). Anonymity doesn’t make joking about an incident where two people lost their lives any less despicable.

*I oppose the death penalty for philosophical reasons, but if convicted, I do hope that the suspect serves a full life sentence for this crime.

Chris at Nashville Daily Photo took a spectacular photo of Nashville’s downtown from the Gateway bridge recently. Nice work.

The Smart Show, a daily Web video program developed by Holiday Inn Express, visited Nashville last Wednesday. The show is dedicated to presenting “clever, witty, innovative and unexpected ideas” as its hosts travel across America and stay at Holiday Inn Express hotels. Besides jokingly mistaking Nashville’s Parthenon for its predecessor in Greece, the hosts tour Lower Broadway and look for ghosts at the State Capitol. It’s short and worth a look.

From a business perspective, this looks like a fairly inexpensive way to drive some publicity for a company. Not a bad idea.