Birmingham Blues

It looks like the conservative coalition is really coming apart at the seams. George Will and Charles Krauthammer both take on intelligent design, and it doesn’t come out well. Krauthammer speaks eloquently (I can’t believe I’m saying that) about the both the inadequacy of ID as science and the foolishness of pitting God [...]

From the Montgomery Advertiser:
An autumn wreath welcoming visitors into his home hangs just above the crime scene tape barring entry into Billy Sanford’s house, where he was allegedly beaten last month because he is gay. Sanford, 52, lay in a coma at Jackson Hospital Tuesday, clinging to life as police announced that they had arrested [...]

Youngest Daughter is eight today. She was born on a chilly Sunday night after an easy labor and a more exciting delivery than I would have liked. The umbilical cord looped so tightly around her neck that the doctor had to cut it before she could come out. She still talks about [...]

You know, before those Abu Ghraib pictures, I might have tended to doubt a detainee’s story that he had been tortured by being thrust inside a cage of lions. Donald Rumsfeld says the account “seems quite farfetched”, surely one of the more straightforward pronouncements he has made in recent years.
“They took me behind the [...]

The transportation director for the Hoover City Schools resigned after being charged with indecent exposure. He apparently thought it would be a good idea to appear naked on an interstate overpass. When I started reading the story, I figured he had taken a pee outside or something of that sort, but this was [...]

Wow! I wonder if this has anything to do with the fear of wingnuts in power. Birmingham has world-class health care and medical research, but all of that won’t stop Roy Moore from becoming the next governor. Maybe Transmolecular, Inc.’s employees would prefer to live in a state where all rights [...]

Mr. Pitts skewers “Rev. Ridiculous”. I may have mentioned before that I love Leonard Pitts. He is the writer I can only dream of being in my next life. Observe a master at work:
“And the Lord did look with discontent upon the town of Dover in the province of Pennsylvania. For [...]

Gay priests are waiting to see the expected Vatican guidelines on gay seminarians. Althought the guidelines won’t address ordained priests who are gay, they will almost certainly alienate the very people who serve the church on the front lines of ministry.
The Italian newspaper Il Giornale reported Friday that the document from the Congregation [...]

Check out Weird Wally’s World View. Wally works with abused and neglected children, which gives him lots of extra stars in his crown. My stepdaughter does this work as well, and it takes a special person to face up to the cruelty that adults can inflict and do everything possible to make the [...]

…actually just the power cord. If anyone knows where I can find a replacement for a Westell 6100 router, please let me know. I’m hoping BellSouth will replace it, as it is still under warranty, but I don’t know if they’ll honor the warranty for an act of dog. Dial-up is no [...]