So I got a call I didn’t recognize on my cell today, and when I answered a recorded voice said it was a call from the Huntsville-Madison County Jail. Intrigued, I listened further, and it told me that for a one-time charge of $9.99, I could speak for up to 20 minutes with… …and I … Read more
As I type, Wal-Mart is expected to announce its second straight year of declining domestic same-store sales. There is much hand-wringing and bloviating about where Wal-Mart went wrong. In chasing up-market shoppers, have they abandoned their core customer base? In moving more toward specials on specific items, and away from uniformly low prices, have they … Read more
Are there any? Not really, for people who behave mostly reasonably about college football. Lest we lose sight of things in the heat of this unfortunate moment, that’s a phrase descriptive of a large majority of both the Alabama and Auburn fan bases. For people like Harvey Updyke, the man accused of (almost certainly fatally) … Read more