Birmingham Blues

Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) is home from the hospital four months after suffering a brain hemmorhage.  He’s been in rehab (not that kind of rehab) since February and continues to improve.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is set to leave the hospital this afternoon, a bit over two weeks after a serious car accident.  Jon, honey, next time [...]

Blues reader Don is 74 today — and still working hard to encourage the Alabama legislature to pass initiative and referendum for our citizens.  Have a great day, Don!

I shouldn’t be surprised.  Alabama is one of only four states that permit judges to override jury recommendations in capital cases, and it is the only one of the four that chooses judges in partisan elections.  And 90% of the time, the override goes in the direction of imposing the death penalty when the jury has [...]

Shout, Birmingham’s second annual gay & lesbian film festival, kicks off tomorrow night (Friday, April 27) at WorkPlay.  This year’s festival features a documentary film about our own Rep. Patricia Todd and her historic campaign.  It also highlights actor Alan Cumming (X2:X-Men United) and Alabama’s own Jeff Key, whose one-man show, The Eyes of Babylon, [...]

It may sound like something I chant when my children are driving me crazy, but it’s actually Open Hearts and Minds Lectures, coming up this weekend at Auburn University Montgomery.  This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock.  Dr. Brock will focus on the theme of “Our Common Good and the Care of This World” in her [...]

Blues reader Don pointed me to this excellent editorial in the Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle, addressing a couple of the people in the center of the two-year college scandal.  The two-year system has turned into a jobs program for the Alabama legislature, and everything was rocking along just fine until Brett Blackledge of the Birmingham [...]

Since when?  Pat Tillman’s family wanted the truth about their son’s death.  The military lied to them, and they refused to accept that and go quietly home like good little Bushies — or like good little Christians, at least according to Army Lt. Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, who handled the initial investigation:
“But there [have] been numerous [...]

The Committee is seeking the Secretary of State’s testimony on the now discredited claim that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium in Africa.  The Republican meme on this seems to be that it was four years ago, water under the bridge, nothing to be gained by understanding what went wrong, etc.
Next door, the House Judiciary [...]

But will it be a White House whitewash?  Melissa McEwan has more on Scott Bloch.  Thanks, Tom!
This is coming from inside the Bush administration, and that is huge.  The larger investigation came out of two narrower ones:  the firing of US Attorney David Iglesias and a political PowerPoint presentation given to GSA employees by Rove aide Scott Jennings.
…the [...]

Yes, I know I’m a hopeless nerd — 13YOD tells me at least once a week — but this is cool.  Just keep it away from Dean Cain and Brandon Routh, please.