Birmingham Blues

Co-blogger Del made a trek to Birmingham today, and we finally met for real. We spent a couple of hours chatting over margaritas and chips, and she’s just as delightful and funny in person as she is on the blog and in our frequent email exchanges.
One of the coolest things about the Intertubes is [...]

There was something new in today’s paper. Dickie Scruggs, Katrina, bribery. Gosh, there are just so many possibilities. Maybe he was accepting bribes, passing them on to judges, and enjoying the services of “rent-boys”!

Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) plans to resign his seat effective at year end according to sources in Congress and the Bush administration. Those sources aren’t giving any reason for his resignation other than to say it has nothing to do with his health. He’s going to pursue “other opportunities”. Hmmm. Lott [...]

My pal Hill Carmichael, Coordinator of the Constitutional Reform Education Campaign at Greater Birmingham Ministries, has a great piece in today’s Birmingham News. Hill’s great-grandfather was a delegate to the 1901 constitutional convention.
…According to convention President John B. Knox, the delegates set out “to establish white supremacy in this state.” To accomplish their goal, [...]

I just visited the official website for the Coen brother’s new picture, No Country for Old Men. I clicked on the trailer link and before they would let me watch it, they wanted to know if I was 17. So I filled in a fake name and zipcode, as usual, and picked a random birthyear, [...]

17-10. That is all.

This piece actually appeared in today’s Mobile paper, but since I am unable to find it online I’ve linked to the Charlotte News-Observer. (al.com, worst website ever.) Anyway, Betsy Hart, who I can’t say I know much about, has resolved to chaperone every single one of her four (4) children’s school dances, or at least the [...]

Does anybody remember the California ballot initiative? The one that was going to let California apportion its electoral votes district by district, instead of handing the whole state to the Dems as a giant blue West Coast prize?  It’s back.
When our kids were little, they had a number of those “talking” Little Golden Books, the [...]

We’re off to spend Thanksgiving with the in-laws in Dial-Up Land. I hope to be checking in here and there, but I’ll go ahead and wish you all a safe and blessed holiday weekend!
Del will be around, so stop by for new posts when you’re done sleeping off the tryptophan.

The Chastang mess (Riley appointed a county commissioner instead of allowing a special election, long legal battle, eventual triumph of lawsuit based on violation of Voting Rights Act) is going to the Supreme Court. Not the Alabama Supreme Court—it’s already been there. The US one.
 Y’all, this is not about Mobile County, or even Alabama. This [...]