Now I'm really worried

UPDATE: A-Day a sellout | TideSports.com

A crowd in excess of 92,138. To watch a practice. Jesus.

The final days

So I'm going to be closing War Liberal down in a few days. I've just gotten bored with it. I'm not stopping blogging; my new site on WordPress.com is already set up, though I haven't done anything much with it yet. It probably won't be very different from what I've been doing -- politics and fish. Details to come.

This is insane

Planning needed to navigate Saturday s events | TideSports.com

The city of Tuscaloosa is planning for a huge influx of people to watch... practice. The A-Day spring football game. Sometimes I wonder about this town.

There's also a triathlon going on, and this:

Also Saturday, across the Black Warrior River in downtown Northport, will be a Back to Mayberry fundraising festival that will include impersonators doing such characters as Barney, Goober and Opie.

I can hardly wait.

That's not fair

Study puts Alabama's Medicaid at bottom

We were 42nd! Eight whole states were worse. For Alabama, that's pretty good.

Threats are always useful

NASA rethinks plan to close robotics office

The NASA administrator was talking about closing the Lunar Precursor Robotics Program in Huntsville. In reply, Richard Shelby said that he was counting the days until the administrator lost his job, and Bud Cramer said that the administrator had misled him. And now NASA says that the program will be fine!

They can not be serious

Studios Stalk Tolkien's Hurin

Let's see, it's the story of a guy who knocks up his amnesiac sister and then both of them commit suicide. I can't imagine this not being the feel-good hit of summer, 2010.

See, he's going to win

Sessions adds $545,000 to'08 campaign war chest

If Sparks or whoever runs, Sessions will just overwhelm them with TV. He already had more than $1 million on hand.

Hey, it's another degrading British reality show!

Reality TV show sends fat kids hunting | The Daily Telegraph

In Australia, yet.

If the children want to eat, they must follow the strict rules of the Aborigines, eating plants, grasses and fruits as well as trapping, killing and cooking any animals or insects they find.

If they do not eat the bush tucker, they go hungry.

I certainly think that only an extremely loving parent, and not an attention-hungry psychopath, would do this.