Finally, a 'Bune popup that really tells it like it is.

Why yes, it is (unretouched, non-photoshopped).

Greetings from 'Bama.

If you're a people, you can speak tonight about stormwater at Mr. Coffey's public meeting.

The obvious source of the West End's stormwater drainage problems is the gigantic earthwork supporting the Interstate highway. Take out the Interstate, and replace it with a Galligan canal, and -- voila!

$6 million bond, drainage topic of public forum in New Albany; Coffey pushing for more west end improvements, board says work based on plan, by Daniel Suddeath

NEW ALBANY — Residents will be given the opportunity to speak about drainage and a proposed $6 million loan for New Albany stormwater projects during a public meeting Wednesday.

New Albany City Councilman Dan Coffey — who has been outspoken in his criticism of the stormwater master plan that is being used to determine the projects — said he’s hosting the forum so residents can have input before a vote is taken on the bond.

“There’s real questions about the way the stormwater [utility] has operated, and also their supposed engineering study, and I want the people to have a chance to speak,” Coffey said Friday.

He pledged to host three public meetings in the coming weeks across the city, as the first one will begin at 6 p.m. in the Strassweg Auditorium of the New Albany-Floyd County Library.

Too much Dixie on their minds.

Caption contest: OSIN's automotive pop-up ad.

If you save the background photo, the car dealership names disappear!

How should the caption read? We know who will win, which is why I'm no longer offering prizes, but just for the sport of it, here's mine:

"Piss on you -- I work for the Alabama State Retirement Fund."

Jeers for Islamophobes, homophobes and pop-up ads for car dealers.

I'm in agreement with this jeer, but how does one cancel a subscription anonymously? When I cancelled ours last week, I had to tell the helpful young lady exactly which street address to remove, which had the effect of giving away my identity. Of course, anonymity's always been a foreign concept for me.

Hmm, I wonder if the Islamophobe referenced here by editor Van Hoy was the same as one of the two homophobes (Saundra Bottom and Betty Robertson) who wrote letters on August 4 to advance the bizarre position that as Christians, they're actually the victims of persecution if they cannot use their religion to justify persecution and discrimination against others in this, a secular society.

Apparently it's peak season here in the Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwardness. By the way, how'd you like that ice-cold Budweiser down by the river last night?

JEERS

... to the anonymous caller who apparently decided to cancel her subscription because of content on the Mini Page, of all pages.

A recent edition of that page — which is aimed at young children — contained a lesson on Islamic history and Ramadan. Taking “God out of everything” did not sit well with the reader.

God, Allah, Buddha, Flying Spaghetti Monster, insert your favorite deity here, nothing at all — it’s all fine by me.

— Editor Shea Van Hoy