Birmingham Blues

I had a real treat today — lunch with Pam (of Pam’s House Blend), her partner Kate, and Kate’s sister Sarah. Pam and Kate are here to visit Kate’s family, and Sarah is back in town after her apartment near Biloxi was wiped out by Katrina (and Sarah, I hope I’m spelling your name [...]

…with no political meaning whatsoever. Whether your faith tradition celebrates holy days this time of year or you’re just getting a welcome respite from the routine, I hope your days are blessed with love, laughter, good food, fun, family, and friends.
I’ll be cooking my first Christmas dinner on my own this year. Wonderful [...]

If you have noticed a time lag in posting of your comments, worry not! I somehow attracted some really disgusting spammers to a post about storm names that I put up a couple of months ago. In order to avoid having to delete twenty or thirty comments a day that were advertising some [...]

Happy holidays to the poor and elderly. Senate Republicans eked out a one-vote “victory” with help from the VP. They’re so proud that they are reducing the size of the federal government at the expense of those who can’t afford to buy votes. But, as usual, it’s only a bunch of smoke [...]

Click here for a scary read at No More Mister Nice Blog.
A U.S. appeals court today upheld the decision of a lower court in allowing the inclusion of the Ten Commandments in a courthouse display, hammering the American Civil Liberties Union and declaring, “The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church [...]

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff are in discussions with the Justice Department about his possible cooperation in a congressional corruption probe, a person involved in the investigation said Tuesday night.
The probe involves a number of members of Congress as well as staff. A former aide to ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, [...]

Nice to see that Tom DeLay enjoyed the perks of office.
WASHINGTON (AP) - As Tom DeLay became a king of campaign fundraising, he lived like one too. He visited cliff-top Caribbean resorts, golf courses designed by PGA champions and four-star restaurants - all courtesy of donors who bankrolled his political money empire.
Over the past six [...]

Roy Moore’s wife, Kayla, has sent out an email asking supporters for contributions to help Roy become a “national spokesperson for Christian conservatism”.
Kayla Moore wrote in an e-mail that Christmas was an appropriate time to begin their campaign “to return morality to our country and God to our public square.” Her husband is opposed by [...]

The fact that anyone is defending Bush’s illegal domestic spying program is a strong indication that we have turned into frogs. I’m sure you know the old wives’ tale: a frog thrown into a pot of boiling water will jump right out, but if the water is slowly heated to a boil, the frog [...]