The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Watching a brain unravel is a terrible thing. So is watching a state and a country go down the drain, along with the ideals that created it. It is torture not only for the person who experiences the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease but also the…
Monthly Archives: March 2014
How Big Oil Controls Local Governments
Whom Do You Serve? Thoughts on Local Government and Dirty Industries – By Brad Nolen – MOBILE, Ala. – We the people of Mobile have long been organized to safeguard and promote the flourishing of our fair community. And part and parcel to this organization we’ve put together was the hiring of a city councils,…
American Youth Reject GOP Radical Conservatism, Shift to Support Democratic Party
By Glynn Wilson – America’s youth are running from the radical conservatism of the Republican Party and choosing to call themselves Democrats in greater numbers than ever before, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. Young adults — those between the ages of 18 and 29 — have typically aligned themselves with the…
Hey Alabama: You Can’t Thank God for Mississippi Anymore
Mobile Planning Commission Defies Citizen Protests, Approves Blue Creek Coal Terminal
A Majority of Americans Choose Protecting the Environment Over Economic Growth
Gallup Finds the Largest Partisan Gap Ever on This Question – By Glynn Wilson – If given a choice, a majority of Americans by a 50 percent to 41 percent margin are more likely to say protecting the environment should be given priority even at the risk of curbing economic growth, even though the risk…
Some of My Best Friends Are … Racists
nig·gard·ly [nig-erd-lee] adjective – 1. reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly. – 2. meanly or ungenerously small or scanty: a niggardly tip to a waiter. – Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – Racism is alive and well in America. But it’s not your father’s racism. It’s yours. It manifests differently. Just as overt.…
A Steady Majority, 57 Percent of Americans, Blame Human Pollution for Global Warming
By Glynn Wilson – A majority of Americans, 57 percent, believe increases in the Earth’s temperature during the past century are due to pollution from human activities, while 40 percent still say it is due to naturally occurring changes in the environment, in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence and incredibly rare scientific consensus showing that…
The State of The State: The Opinion of One Employed Alabamian-American
Guest Column – By Brad Nolen – If you listened to Governor Bentley’s State of the State address, you probably noticed that he mainly thinks of us, Alabamians, as workers, not citizens. Also that mean old U.S. Government can’t help anyone and just wants in on the dysfunctional ménage a trois between Americans, health Insurers…
On Baptists and the Separation of Church and State
Minimum Wage Increase Would Benefit Everyone in Alabama
Op-Ed – By Al Henley – The Alabama State Legislature may take up a bill that would drastically improve life in Alabama – for all its citizens. The legislation, introduced by state House member Darrio Melton, a Democrat from Selma, would gradually raise the state’s minimum wage from $7.25/hour to $9.80/hour over the next two…
President Obama to Sign Memo Strengthening Overtime Protections for American Workers
By Glynn Wilson – After weathering the Bush “Great Recession” and five years of hard work and determination by the Obama administration, the United States of America is creating jobs and rebuilding its economy. But as a result of shifts that have taken hold over more than three decades, too many Americans are working harder…
Long-Term Global Warming Likely to Be Significant Despite Recent Slowdown
By Glynn Wilson – Earth’s climate will likely continue in a man-made warming trend for the remainder of the 21st century on track with previous estimates, despite the recent slowdown in the rate of global warming, a new NASA study concludes. The latest research hinges on a new and more detailed calculation of the sensitivity…
It’s Time to Grow Up and Stop Playing Politics With People’s Lives
Canadian Tar Sands Crude Oil Threatens to Flood the Gulf Coast by Rail
Watch and Share the Video – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Larry Godfrey owns the Escatawpa Hollow Campground and Canoe Rental along the Escatawpa River on the Alabama-Mississippi line just about 40 miles down the Canadian National Railroad line from New Augusta, Mississippi, where a train carrying tar sands crude oil and other…
Mobile Alabama’s Historic Africatown At Risk From Tar Sands Oil Storage Tanks, Pipelines
Is the Mobile Watershed Oil Pipeline A Done Deal?
Astronomers Measure Spin of Distant Black Hole for First Time
By Glynn Wilson – Astronomers have accomplished the first direct measurement of the spin of a distant black hole, an important advance for understanding how black holes grow over time, scientists say. The research suggests that this black hole grew by gradually merging material rather than pulling in material in from different directions. NASA’s Chandra…
Comic Cowboys Satirize Mobile Establishment on Fat Tuesday
MOBILE, Ala. – The Comic Cowboys poked jabbing fun at the establishment in the rain on Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras Day. Big Oil pipelines came under fire, as well as the new Chamber of Commerce Republican Mayor and the cops. Alabama’s Nick Saban and Auburn’s Toomer Oaks were also the subject of the cowboy’s wit,…
Joe Cain Day Generates Controversy at Mobile Mardi Gras 2014
It seems Joe Cain Parading Society organizer Jim Baldwin wants to limit walking processions at the oldest Mardi Gras procession in the United States. Members of a Second Line marched through Bienville Square Park on Sunday to protest limits placed on walking crews at this year’s Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, on of all days…