Cruise ships! Fall colors! Hurricanes! Relatively few hurricanes!

al.com: NewsFlash - Southeast tourism industry wages post-hurricane campaign

Come to the South this fall! It’s still pretty warm into early November, and you’ll get plenty of warning before the hurricanes hit!

The metronome

BBC NEWS | Health | Pregnant women ‘oily fish alert’

Pregnant women should eat fish. No, they shouldn’t. Yes, they should. No, they shouldn’t. Repeat 4000 times.

Hippies

Indian Springs adds Chinese language class

At least, that’s what I used to call Indian Springs high school when I was at John Carroll. Chinese? Wow. Alabama high schools don’t even have a foreign language requirement. (Good thing, too, otherwise I never would have graduated. I just can’t pick up the grammar.)