CBS’s Katie Couric asks Sarah Palin one simple question: “What magazines or newspapers did you read regularly before being picked for VP?” And in spite of probing follow-ups, she can’t name one, even though she majored in journalism as an undergraduate in college. Broadcast journalism that is… She does say, however, that she’s “read most…
Monthly Archives: September 2008
'Save the Black Warrior' River Events in October
A new “Save the Black Warrior” campaign will kick off in Birmingham, Friday, Oct. 3, and in Tuscaloosa, Thursday, October 16. The Birmingham kick-off celebration will be at 10 p.m. on Friday, October 3, at Zydeco (205-933-1032). Tickets are $8 in advance at zydecobirmingham.com or $10 at the door (2001 15th Ave S). The event…
Palin's Nude Portrait Hangs in Chicago Bar
Sarah Palin’s nude portrait There’s been no shortage of takeoffs on Sarah Palin lately, from television skits to action figures, but Bruce Elliott has gone one step further than most. He’s taken off her clothes, according to the Chicago Tribune. Elliott’s wife, Tobin Mitchen, owns the Old Town Ale House on Chicago’s North Side. He…
Live from New York, It's Sarah Palin on SNL
Maybe we should take a short break and revisit this. It’s Black Monday on Wall Street and in D.C.
Special Prosecutor Appointed to Investigate Justice
White House Officials Implicated in Politically Motivated Cases Karl Rove Accused of Crafting Messages by Glynn Wilson A special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate Bush administration officials for turning the Justice Department into a political arm of the White House, according to a press release and a report issued Monday by United States Attorney…
No Charges in Bush Justice Department Investigation of Itself?
Surprise, surprise, surprise… by Glynn Wilson Perhaps you are too young, blog fans, to remember the Gomer Pyle Show and the Marine private’s routine refrain to Sergeant Carter. But that’s what’s ringing in my ears this Monday morning as we wait to find out if what is being reported by the TPMMuckraker and The New…
Sunday School: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson I must create a system, or be enslav’d by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. –Jerusalem In 1957, the year I was born, this quotation was erected in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey in London as a memorial to the poet William…
Palin Bump Shrinks, Obama Back Out Front
by Glynn Wilson The Palin bump has all but disappeared from the polls and Barack Obama is back out front of John McCain in the race for president with only six weeks to go before election day Nov. 4. According to the aggregated polling at Pollster.com, the Democrats have a solid lock on 229 electoral…
The 2008 Magic Season
Time Out by Dan Rutledge To paraphrase an old song or, more correctly, an old song title, “This Magic Season” should be the theme song for the Southeastern Conference and for the Alabama Crimson Tide in particular. The league hit a historical high note last week by hogging half of the AP Top 10 poll.…
Roebuck Springs Dam Update
Glynn Wilson The city of Birmingham began work today on restoring a dam destroyed last Friday without a permit on Village Creek. City crews piled up dirt on both sides of where the pond flows into a drainage pipe, planted grass seed, and placed sand bags in the breach to form a temporary spillway. This…
Roebuck Springs Fish Kill Update
by Glynn Wilson ROEBUCK SPRINGS, Ala., Sept. 25 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a solution to the Corps of Engineers and the city of Birmingham to build a temporary dam out of sand bags and then construct a permanent structure to control the flow of water from the spring pool behind…
Editorial: Major Price Should Be Paid for Fish Kill
by Glynn Wilson Editor and Publisher If Regina Nummy, the director of Roebuck-Hawkins Park, has not already resigned her position — for her ignorant order telling Birmingham city workers to illegally excavate wetlands without a permit and to remove a dam on a Village Creek spring pool — she should be fired immediately. Glynn Wilson…
Major Lawsuit, Penalties Expected in Roebuck Fish Kill
by Glynn Wilson ROEBUCK SPRINGS, Ala., Sept. 24 — It may take a lawsuit to get to the bottom of why and how the director of a city park came to destroy a dam in the habitat of endangered fish and illegally order the excavation of wetlands without a permit on Village Creek, since Birmingham…
At Least 1,000 Endangered Watercress Darters Killed
Illegal Dam Removal in Roebuck Springs Under Investigation Glynn Wilson The scene of destruction at Roebuck Springs on Village Creek, where at least 1,000 endangered fish were killed by the illegal removal of a dam. by Glynn Wilson ROEBUCK SPRINGS, Ala., Sept. 23 — Ignorance kills. Regina Nummy, the director of Roebuck-Hawkins Park, apparently took…
U.S. Capitalism Called into Question
by Glynn Wilson Editor’s Note: Why is it that in the United States of America, where free speech is part of our national psyche as well as the Constitution, and the most successful style of democracy in the history of the world was created, the debate on TV and in the nation’s news media seems…
Sunday School: Thinking Philosophically
Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson There are three issues in the news worth writing about today. There’s good news, bad news, and then there’s some interesting news out of Alabama that has made it’s way all the way to New York. The bad news is, the economy is on the verge of another Great…
$700,000,000,000.00
The Bush Administration sent a $700 billion plan for a U.S. government bailout of bad mortgage debt to Congress on Saturday, seeking extraordinary authority as it tackles the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Democratic lawmakers, who control both houses of Congress, said they hoped to approve the bailout quickly but wanted changes such…
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SEC Season Shaping Up Grand
Time Out for SEC Sports by Dan Rutledge As on old sportscaster used to say, Whoa Nellie! The Southeastern Conference football season of 2008 is shaping up to be one of the best ever in the grand ole conference — and that’s saying a lot. But the national sports talking heads are almost unanimous in…
Cheney Fundraising Trip to Huntsville Taxpayer Funded?
The Alabama Democratic Party is calling on the Republican Congressional campaigns of Wayne Parker in District 5 and Jay Love in District 2 to reimburse Alabama taxpayers for the full travel and security costs of Vice President Cheney’s brief fundraising trip Thursday to Huntsville. Some smart activist placed this “Impeach Bush” sign over the Interstate…
