Damn The Torpedoes

Oct 07 2008 – Will Hermie ever get his? Maybe it’s all the talk about the Economic Bailout, the stress of trying to figure out the presidential race or just the fact that I spent all weekend going from Waffle House to Waffle House in hopes of getting to join Kid Rock’s posse, but my powers of concentration aren’t up to ranting about one particular thing for 1,000 words right now.

Sep 23 2008 – It’s going to be OK Mobile So this is what it’s like to get royally screwed as a community.

Sep 10 2008 – Making bad weather pay My good friend William Hinge Van Anterse III – Trey to his friends – seemed especially animated when I walked into the watering hole the other night.

Aug 26 2008 – Fatties getting hit by state As most of you have probably heard by now, Alabama once again was near the top of one of those lists we really don’t want to be atop of – the list of fattest states.

Aug 12 2008 – Run fast young man! This time of year always brings back memories of starting school, whether it be elementary, high school, college or reform.

Jul 29 2008 – Technicalities rule the day It’s good to see the technicality is making a comeback.

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Hidden Agenda

Oct 07 2008 – Annexation and classic football funding has Sam nervous In the wee hours of the morning on the eve the annexation election, Mobile was startled out of a deep sleep by Mayor Sam Jones who was tossing and turning all over their mayor-sized bed on the 10th floor of Government Plaza….

Sep 23 2008 – *What the cluck is going on in Cypress Shores neighborhood?

Sep 10 2008 – Mobile’s one-stop future Curious how big Mobile would be after allof the latest annexation attempts, I decided to take a little vacay to the future, so I jumped in the state-of-the-art Lagniappe time machine.

Aug 26 2008 – Council’s little drinking problem Let me just say I have a liquor-column writing hangover.

Aug 12 2008 – Paying a visit to Ichitown After Mayor Jones and Councilmen Johnson, Carroll and Richardson’s recent trip to one of our sister cities, Ichihara, Japan, Mobile decided to call her up to make sure they behaved.

Jul 29 2008 – ‘Planning’ for the future? Shoot. I am going to come off sounding negative in this, and I don’t want to.

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Jubilee

Oct 07 2008 – Congratulations to our Mayors-Elect As I write this semi-monthly column, most of us here on the Eastern Shore still do not know who will be our next mayor.

Sep 23 2008 – Baldwin County roads need smarter usage You can’t tell from looking around the Eastern Shore, but streets aren’t just for cars.

Sep 10 2008 – ESho summer hot and silty We’ve had a pretty silty summer in my Eastern Shore neighborhood.

Aug 26 2008 – Try going to the dog I wasn’t going to mention Willie Bean again after my last column.

Aug 12 2008 – Candidates in dog fight Seven white guys and a yellow lab are running for mayor in Fairhope.

Jul 29 2008 – Wheeling and dealing Let’s start with the following proposition: Skateboarding is not a crime.

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To Whom it May Concern

Oct 07 2008 – All the friends I need I remember attending lectures in telecommunications classes, during the time the Internet was just a toddler…a toddler with a penchant for hardcore pornography.

Sep 23 2008 – Magical mystery fan Did you ever wish you had super-human powers?

Sep 10 2008 – The love bug’ll get ya! There are many seasonal harbingers in the world.

Aug 26 2008 – Mayor Jones again casts a lustful eye west I know this publication hasn’t been a champion of Wal-Mart in the past and I don’t think that will ever change, but for this brief moment, here in my Duchy of "To Whom it May Concern land," let me celebrate Wal-Mart, the retail catalyst for the city of Mobile’s newfound Manifest Destiny.

Aug 12 2008 – Toys in the attic or bats in the belfry? We humans started this civilization thing as nomads, following the herds of game we hunted and also moving away from areas that were dense with predators that had the fever for the flavor of a people.

Jul 29 2008 – The ‘Toothpaste Theory’ of petroleum usage Let me wax prophetic on you for a second.

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Kudzu Queen

Feb 12 2008 – I generally don’t get upset when slurs are directed at me.

Jan 28 2008 – My mother has been my mother all of my life. It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

Jan 15 2008 – The Beginning: One rainy afternoon in late December, the sun briefly broke out of the clouds, and I had an epiphany.

Jan 01 2008 – Chaos Theory says something like a butterfly flapping its wings over the Pacific Ocean can set in motion a chain of events which leads to Atlantic Coast hurricanes, famine in Bangladesh, or Britney Spears shaving her head and beating a photographer’s car with her umbrella.

Dec 18 2007 – I needed something to do one summer, so I decided I’d demolish the hulking garage, which loomed like a rotting, redneck Leaning Tower of Pisa in my backyard.

Dec 04 2007 – The Big Book, which is the veritable Bible of the alcoholism recovery set, compares practicing alcoholics to tornadoes.

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Letters

Oct 07 2008 – Getting their goats in Cypress Shores To the editor: I visited a friend on Sept.

Sep 23 2008 – Jones needs a reminder To the editor: Seems to me Mr.

Sep 10 2008 – Toland, you rock Ashley: I logged onto the Internet just now to try and find something to do with my wife this Saturday night as we are bored.

Aug 26 2008 – Other side of tipping saga To the editor: As a restaurant owner-operator, I feel it imperative that I throw in my two-cents on the issue of tipping that has been published in Lagniappe’s letters for the past two circulation periods.

Aug 12 2008 – Weighing in on commissioner article Ms. Egan: Just finished reading your article in the Lagniappe and found it very interesting that the article suggests that a new revenue commissioner would solve the valuation problem in Mobile County.

Jul 29 2008 – Mad as hell and not taking it anymore To the editor: I decide to stop at (a local restaurant) on a busy Friday at lunch.

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County View

Sep 10 2008 – The past is prologue on county commission As there are and have been huge storms brewing in the Atlantic and Gulf oceans, so have there been little cyclones of a political nature whipping along the shores of Mobile Bay, lapping at the edge of our developing riverfront.

Aug 26 2008 – Annexation talk stirs Mayor Sam Jones’s new motto might be Veni Vidi Vici.

Jul 29 2008 – A nightmarish jailbreak Some doors don’t want to stay locked.

Jul 15 2008 – The county as viewed from the back of a bike In the line of business, when government laws and rules do not yield the desired result, simply change the rules, shift the balance of power and like Copperfield wiggling out of chains, your result will miraculously appear.

Jul 01 2008 – If we could package the decorum displayed at most public meetings such as the biweekly Mobile County Commission soiree and sell it to the streets, we might instill a civility not seen since every American household was "Leave it to Beaver" and drug wars were a little old lady disputing the price of her gastritis pills with the local pharmacist, who is also making her a root beer float probably inflaming the gastritis.

Jun 17 2008 – On Mondays, crouching tigers rise from woods and, poised for attack, attack.

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Internal Ramblings

Oct 10 2006 – By Amanda Hardy Lagniappe staff Since the day Job was pelted by God with cosmic disasters some thousands of years ago, people have always asked why bad things happen to good people.

Jul 19 2006 – It appears my end is coming near here at Lagniappe.

Jun 21 2006 – I don’t know if this is a touchy issue, but I need to talk about it.

Jun 06 2006 – Hello, everybody. You may not know me, but I am the new kid on the block at Lagniappe.

Beltway Beat

Oct 07 2008 – Bailout vote may cost Bonner WASHINGTON – I never thought I’d be looking over at the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s Rep.

Sep 23 2008 – Bonner takes gloves off…sort of WASHINGTON – You heard it here first back in July, when the GAO caused the Defense Department to negate Northrop Grumman’s winning bid for the KC-X Air Force tanker refueling contract.

Sep 10 2008 – News from the Convention ST. PAUL, Minn. - When I was told I would be covering the Republican National Convention in Minnesota for my "real job," it was sort of like winning hard-to-get tickets to a concert or some sporting event.

Aug 26 2008 – Bonner to join protest on the floor of the House of Representatives WASHINGTON – Does anyone remember those crazy rumors about Gov.

Aug 12 2008 – When Congress went dark…. WASHINGTON – Call it a public relations stunt, a gimmick or a frivolous endeavor, but after the House was adjourned for the August recess, about 100 congressional Republicans were denied the opportunity to give routine five-minute speeches protesting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to allow a vote on energy legislation – specifically an up-or-down vote on offshore exploration and drilling for oil and natural gas, the disgruntled Republicans decided to stage a protest.

Jul 29 2008 – Davis gets signed on WASHINGTON – Last week, the Congressman from Mobile and Baldwin County’s neighboring 7th Congressional District lent his name to a scathing response to an ad that appeared in various newspapers circulated throughout the Washington, D.C.-metro area.

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Tossing Mullet

Oct 07 2008 – The waning harvest I suppose it was really cool to see the story about the bio-fuel gas stations showing up in Mobile, Alabama and to have Gov.

Sep 23 2008 – Dauphin Island troubles were foreseen There are times when there is a glorious rush associated with saying, "I told you so" – and there are times when it borders on the painful.

Sep 10 2008 – Wolf! Wolf !! Wolf? In the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav, there are quite a few lessons to be learned.

Aug 26 2008 – ‘Round the LNG loop once more By the time this hits the street, the public hearing on the permit request from TORP for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal 64 miles south of Dauphin Island will be history.

Aug 12 2008 – No need to fear, it’s oil in a day’s work The pressure to develop domestic sources of oil is getting more and more intense even while gas prices are beginning to drift downwards a bit.

Jul 29 2008 – Big shop on the hill Wow! We are on the verge on the final stage of cultural shift to a new semi-virtual world -140,000 square feet of waterfalls, an archery range, a laser arcade, general store, fudge shop, restaurant with Disney-scaled aquaria filled with "colorful native fish" (according to the press release), and lots and lots of stuffed animals!

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