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Ray Scott is a marvelous host.  He greeted us warmly when we met him in his office in Pintlala, Alabama where the walls are decorated with photos of the businessman entrepreneur with his close friend, President George HW Bush, and he told us one of his favorite stories.  He said […]

I woke up at 4:15 am and was in a Jeep bumping over a dirt road by 5:30 am. I was joined by our guide Josh, Joe Estenes, a former police officer and hunter from Sarasota Florida, and riding shotgun, our favorite Shooter, Paul Shoul. We were headed to a […]

Last night we sampled the handiwork of a local legend in Birmingham. Chris Hastings spent years under the tutelage of  Frank Stitt, one of the city’s top chefs and in 1995, he and his wife Idie opened the Hot Hot Fish Club, in a round building downtown. The elegant mood […]

Rolll Tide! Watching Alabama play Auburn in the 2011 Iron Bowl game in Tuscaloosa Alabama. What a thrill!

It’s a sleepless night in Birmingham for many football fans…because tomorrow is the 75th Iron Bowl, as the National Champions Alabama meet their most hated rivals the Auburn Tigers in Tuscaloosa.  Shoul and I will be there–but first we meet a family of Roll Tide tailgators to take in the […]

Tomorrow, instead of joining my family in ceremonial eating, I shall be airborne, heading to Birmingham Alabama.  I am going to spend the next five days in a dizzying display of manly arts—hunting f0r quail, hunting for whitetail deer, and taking in a museum full of thousands of motorcycles and […]

It’s a tough time for believers, say believers. A story in Christianity Today described the problem of young people leaving the church. ” Other survey results have been grimmer. At the May 2009 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, top political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell presented research […]

A story in today’s Gazette shows the terrible power of celebrity, and that like most of us, we believe it when somebody ‘famous’ wants something big.  Matt Pilon wrote about a late night visit to Antonio’s Pizza in Amherst by a man wearing backstage credentials for the Bob Dylan show […]

Some writers inspire me, others make me envious that they are so talented at lining up just the perfect words.  I laughed out loud at the cafe while reading Dan Neil’s review of the new Mercedes CL63 AMG.  Here is a snip, as he describes opening up the throttle on […]

What’s the most important thing to me about our website? I think that has to be the impact we have on so many people and that we make their lives richer as a result of the stories we publish. Some people get great joy in getting in the news a […]

After a conference like this my group of webmaster pals and I all came away with the same feeling. Whoa, we’ve got so much work to do! That happens when you hear from a kid who graduated from MIT in 2010, and now has VC backers providing millions for a […]