Lunar eclipse tonight! Of the remaining, the first three via Jacob, the rest from me and Shaun, mostly Shaun: Alabamian and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales defends his online encyclopedia. Here’s a job I’d love to have. Bookshelf/Staircase–either way you look at it, it’s awesome. Speaking of awesome wooden things, here’s a sports car. Johnny Cash, [...]

The folks at ACCR and similar groups have been banging on for years now about rewriting Alabama’s Constitution, claiming that it is unfair for various reasons. I agree that Alabama Constitution is quite cumbersome (it’s the longest written constitution in the world) and that it unjustly centralizes power in Montgomery, but it has been a [...]

In what I hope will become a regular feature, here’s a song that my good friend Jeremy recently introduced me to. It’s called Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues by Dylan and it’s fantastic: I didn’t choose that song for any particular reason. I happen to think it’s clever and funny, but while I’m on the [...]

Except past my spam filter. Tucked between online pharmacy pitches, male enhancement promises and a bizarre wave of Brendan Fraser-themed comment spam, I find this little gem: “your blog is so important. you are the new media…” Ok, so I’ve seen that hundreds of times before usually as the bait text for me to approve [...]

For the past several years, I have followed and made known this rule when it comes to wedding gifts: I don’t buy them unless I attend the wedding. Of course, there may be some exceptions, such as a wedding of a dear friend that a prior obligation prevented me from attending. I believe, however, that [...]

to the Flag of Comfort Inn and to the Hotel Chain for which it stands…” Wait, what??! So, there’s this Comfort Inn near my house and a few months back I noticed that in addition to the 30 foot high or so illuminated sign, they have a flag pole with a US flag as well [...]

A beer rebel in Alabama, that is. Evidently, the 6% ABV police don’t check variety 12 packs too carefully. Tonight, I discovered that a delicious IPA in a particular variety pack had “6.5% ABV” printed neatly in the label corner. Flouting the law never tasted so good. Not that I’m conceited enough to believe that [...]

I had the honor of serving as best man in my best friend Gilbert’s wedding recently. He and his wife Stacy just returned from their honeymoon in Jamaica. Here are a few pictures:

Yes, it’s that time again, so Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. My V-Day evening plans include blogging and watching Lost. Good times. But, this also gives me yet another opportunity to link to one of my favorite Valentine-related articles, My Privatized Valentine. Jacob links to what is probably the best commentary to emerge from the recent [...]

Though the results were disheartening to say the least; it ain’t over ’til it’s over. Addendum: Stranger things have happened. Speaking of strange things… Super Tuesday also resulted in the best voting story I’ve ever heard, hands-down. Shaun reports on some irregularities at his polling place, to say the least. Here’s the story in his [...]