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“When you are old and grey and full of sleep and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once and of their shadows deep.” – William Butler Yeats In Alabama no person can be elected or appointed as a full-time state or… Read more

“And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” – John 1:5 from the King James Bible I have never been a wake-up-and-seize-the-day kind of person. Wish I could be. Yet, most mornings I do manage to force myself to get up and walk our two high-energy, black Labrador retrievers through the… Read more

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how, but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.” – attributed to Joseph Stalin from the memoirs of Stalin’s former secretary Boris Bazhanov If you caught President Donald Trump’s primetime address last Thursday on the American… Read more

“… a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European, socialist sport.” – former American Football League quarterback and U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp, R-New York My Sunday School teacher brought up this Jack Kemp quote as the World Cup got underway a few weeks ago. She noted the cost… Read more

“More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn’t read.” – Algernon Moncrieff in the play “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde They always dissolve the senate. Napoleon, Mussolini, Pinochet, even Darth Vader’s boss, Emperor Palpatine, dissolved the Galactic Senate to take full control of the evil empire in the “Star… Read more

“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” – spoken by Benjamin Franklin before signing the Declaration of Independence, though likely not originated by him My family has had quite a month. On the first day of June, my wife, daughter and I departed on our biggest family journey so far… Read more

“Mrs. Hogwallop up an’ R-U-N-N-O-F-T.” – Wash Hogwallop, a character played by Frank Collison in the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” The field is finally set for this year’s general election in November. Well … it is set unless you are reading this from Alabama’s 1st, 2nd, 6th or 7th congressional districts, but that… Read more

“It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” – Winston Churchill Here’s an impossible question for you. What do the following numbers have in common? 13, 17 and 12. No, these are not the scores of my most recent IQ tests, smarty pants. And they obviously are not the results of my most… Read more

“This is the song that doesn’t end. Yes, it goes on and on, my friend” – Norman Martin and Shari Lewis By now you are probably sick of hearing about Alabama’s congressional districts. I can’t blame you. But before you head over to the classifieds, this article is not just another rehash on court rulings.… Read more

“If you ain’t cheatin’, you aint’ tryin’.” – sports adage If you follow college sports, particularly the cutthroat Southeastern Conference, you probably have heard the above phrase more than once. When winning is really important – and it often is in the SEC – you want your team to find every loophole, exploit every unconsidered… Read more