Commentary

Hidden Agenda

  • Don’t You Be Takin’ Our Zalea

    August 24, 2010

    Mobile was cool with it.

  • A Worthy Tradeoff Indeed

    August 10, 2010

    Next week, my son, Anders, will celebrate his first birthday.

  • Whiplash and Little Kathy Bring Apocalypse Now

    July 27, 2010

    Over the last couple of weeks, I have received two press releases from a man claiming he will transform himself into Jesus Christ and (also somehow) the Antichrist, in just over two and half years. …

  • An Ode to Mobile’s Craziness

    July 13, 2010

    When Eugene Walter penned “Down in Mobile, they’re all crazy, because the Gulf Coast is the kingdom of monkeys, the land of clowns, ghosts and musicians, and Mobile is sweet lunacy’s county seat,” he pretty much hit that nail squarely on the head. …

  • Municipalities Visit the Flora-Bama

    June 29, 2010

    The cities of Mobile, Biloxi, Orange Beach, Pensacola Beach and Dauphin Island sauntered into the Flora-Bama Lounge and Package Store last weekend for a summit of sorts. …

  • Realizing Our Fears

    June 14, 2010

    As we close in on nearly two months of watching oil gush into our beautiful Gulf waters and witnessing over two weeks of this sweet crude soiling the once-pristine sands of our sugary white beaches, a general sense of sorrow and anxiousness has seeped into our collective subconscious. …

  • Welcome to the ‘Campies’

    June 01, 2010

    There is no red carpet. …

  • Was the Press Complicit?

    May 18, 2010

    As Angel Downs’ blood was washed away from the driveway of her Fort Morgan Road condominium last week, I have to wonder if it’s all gone or if some of it is still left on the hands of all who have been complicit in covering up the personal indiscretions of County Commissioner Stephen Nodine for years. …

  • Gulf Memories Killed by It?

    May 04, 2010

    As I sit here obsessively reading news reports and checking satellite imagery on the approaching oil slick, I feel like It should have a name. …

  • Going Rogue in MOB-town

    April 20, 2010

    I decided to go rogue on April 15, and headed downtown to the various Tea Party events. …