William Sheppard

Presbytery shares missionary legacy

Sheppard's story is a fascinating one. Read about it. The school in which he was trained in the ministry is now Stillman College in Tuscaloosa.

King loved crooked medical executives

Scrushy attorney invokes MLK Jr.

Apparently, Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was that Richard Scrushy should be found innocent. I did not know that. And you think I'm kidding:

With his voice rising to a crescendo, Gray gave the final words from the defendants in this now seven-weeks-long public corruption trial. He implored federal jurors to "fulfill Dr. King's dream and fulfill that old song!"

"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty we're Free at last!" Gray sang out.

Testify! Unlike your client!

This isn't idolatry at all

Baptists unveil Graham statue

I mean, what's wrong with a ten-foot Billy Graham in front of a seventeen-foot cross?

Just like the campaign

Case down to final arguments

Siegelman didn't put on a case. He apparently feels that his natural innocence will shine through or something. Or he hoped that Scrushy and Hamrick's case was enough.

The PAC of death

National PAC routes funds to AG King

So you give money to the "Republican State Leadership Committee". That PAC creates its own sub-pac for Alabama, which gives nearly all its money to "Troy King". Don't worry, they'll tell you about it later.

He's here, there, and everywhere

Heather Mills McCartney Suing Tabloids - Jun 13, 2006 - E! Online News

There is one constant in seemingly every scandal, including this one:

Two of the women are identified in the article as former prostitutes: Petrina Montrose says Mills participated in a threesome with her and a Saudi prince who paid Mills $10,000 for one night; Denise Hewitt says Mills engaged in a lesbian tryst with her. Another interviewee, Abdul Khoury, said to be a secretary for a billionaire arms dealer named Adnan Khashoggi, told the paper Mills was paid $12,000 by his boss.

Of course Adnan Khashoggi is involved.

What the US and Insane Saudi Clerics have in common

Hey, We Can All Agree To Hate Soccer TOGETHER! - Deadspin

Soccer is apparently against Allah. Frankly, I think this is just a plot to make us want to watch soccer to piss off the nuts, but it won't work. I have my limits.

Cryptoshark

My Way News - S.C. Scientists Find New Shark Species

Don't find new big fish species that often. Though it's "genetically distinct" -- indicating that at least it's a separate breeding population from other hammerheads -- I don't know that it's a "species" as normal people would think of it. They look like normal scalloped hammerheads and act like normal scalloped hammerheads and probably could mate with normal scalloped hammerheads -- they just don't.

(Thanks to Meryl.)

Oh, but it's so worth it

Bids for state court carry high price tags

The Republican candidates for the Alabama Supreme Court spent $4.6 million combined in their primary races through the end of May. But that's nothing compared to the amounts at stake in civil suits.