Thomason Tracts

EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect

Once, there was a great metropolitan newspaper named the New York Times. It died, of terminal condescension, on May 4, 2008.

Judge acquits four anti-war protesters in UA incident | TuscaloosaNews.com

Is that Students for a Democratic Society is still around. Who knew?

Okay, now it’s an email from Steve Windom’s wife, who is running for the court of criminal appeals:

Dear Mac,

I am Mary Windom and I am seeking your support in the Republican Primary for Place 2 on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

The “Dear Mac” thing is what gets me. I’d pretty much figured that I was getting these as bulk emails sent to everyone at the school. However, if that was the case it wouldn’t say “Mac”, because my email has my full name. So someone else has sold my email address to Republicans and flat-earthers.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford to ask council to move forward on free bus service- al.com

A majority of the council is now indicating that they won’t support Larry’s Free Bus Summer Jamboree. However, I must question their intelligence:

Council President Carole Smitherman and council members Steven Hoyt, Maxine Parker, Valerie Abbott and Carol Duncan questioned the fiscal responsibility of the plan that totaled $863,000.

“We were not given full information,” Smitherman said. “Had they communicated with us, we wouldn’t ever have been in this position.”

What did they think the situation was? Did they think Larry found a million dollars under the cushions? (Actually, that would explain where the money for a lot of different things comes from.) Did they think that the bus authority had found a way to make the buses run on air, and that the drivers liked their jobs so much they’d work for free?

More likely, they’ve been emboldened by this SEC thing and are at last doing their jobs.

Also, BMLL wants to give Children’s Hospital $20 million in tax breaks to build an expansion. Because Children’s isn’t loaded enough as it is.