No they weren’t

Five bodies found in Birmingham apartment | TuscaloosaNews.com | The Tuscaloosa News | Tuscaloosa, AL

Look, Birmingham has enough problems without the T-News piling five bodies on it. This crime took place in Shelby County, and that’s where the bodies were found. And this isn’t a case of the T-News picking up a wire service headline along with the story. The AP headline has “Alabama apartment”. Nor is this just “some online intern” as I’ve seen T-News personnel use as a defense in the past. The headline appears on the front page of the dead-tree edition.

The newspeople here in Tuscaloosa, just to slime Birmingham, put “Birmingham” in the headline rather than “Inverness” as in the lede. If things that happened in Shelby County are “Birmingham”, then you might as well include Tuscaloosa County as well — both border Jefferson and both are part of the Birmingham media market.

John McCain has Many houses

You see, in primitive cultures, there is no numeral higher than three. They just count, “One, Two, Three, Many”. As you know, John McCain is really, really, terribly old. When he was born, these were the only numbers available for him to learn. So he knows he has “Many” houses, but it’s difficult for him to grasp the exact number.