Birmingham Blues

Jeff at Politics In Alabama will be interviewing Rep. Artur Davis tomorrow morning.  If you have questions that you would like him to ask, leave them in the comments here.  I’ll link to the interview as soon as he posts it.

Wow!  They did their jobs.  What a concept.

At least so far.  The Alabama Senate appears to be hard at work.  Audio link is here.  I hope you have better luck with it than I do; it keeps cutting out on me.  Nothing exciting happening right now, as far as I can tell.
Anything else going on?

(Yeah, I know.  I can’t believe I’m linking to a Scott Stantis cartoon either, but he’s really changed his tune on the Iraq war.)

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I told him to take that outfit to the cleaners!

The citizens of Alabama are still stuck with our 106-year-old Constitution, a document that has been amended nearly 800 times since its (almost certainly) fraudulent ratification.  The Birmingham News is not happy, and neither am I.
This past week 106 years ago, powerful, affluent white men began plotting Alabama’s future.
Beginning May 21, they met in Montgomery [...]

Dear Husband was browsing the Internets just now, and he was flummoxed by the allegation that Mitt Romney is “hot”:
His promotional flyer says, “In this media-driven age, Romney begins with a decisive advantage. First, he has sensational good looks. People magazine named him one of the 50 most beautiful people in America. Standing 6 feet, [...]

Why, exactly, would we be surprised that candidates aren’t lining up to apply for US Attorney positions?
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration’s decision to fire nine U.S. attorneys last year has created a new problem for the White House: The controversy appears to be discouraging applications for some of the 22 prosecutor posts that President Bush [...]

Okay, the New York Times is not where I usually read News of the Weird, but this story certainly qualifies.  It seems historic cemeteries, hard up for preservation funds, have turned themselves into party central.
Historic cemeteries, desperate for money to pay for badly needed restorations, are reaching out to the public in ever more unusual [...]