Tuesday, March 27, 2018

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: All these unresolved issues, and there goes the mayor -- pouring cash into the Valley View golf course "partnership."

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The Green Mouse no longer is surprised by anything . As it turns out, Donald Trump isn't the only one wasting time (and your money) a...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Schlock and awl: Duggins' captive NAHA to meet the candidates, prepare voter lists for future persuasion, and play-act some make-believe democracy.

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But are they registered to vote? Over at the New Albany Housing Authority, Commissar David "125K" Duggins is getting into the...

THE BEER BEAT: England, or one man's heightened cholesterol panic is another man's nostalgic repast (2013).

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Having just now introduced an eager young student to the delightful concept of stargazy pie ...  ... with pilchard heads gloriously int...

My acrophobia and those skinny skyscrapers.

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I've always been prone to a certain degree of acrophobia, seldom intense but always lurking just around the corner, all the same. C...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

Your courtesy compendium of links to the "Portugal Trip 2018" and "Focus on Portugal 2018" series.

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Indeed, knowing that we'd be visiting Porto and Madeira, the winter of 2017-2018 became a veritable adult education course on all thi...

"News and Tribune" changes its name to "Tom May Compendium."

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Now Karl May ... there was a writer. First the newspaper doubled down on its weekly Sunday coverage of religious superstition w...

At Strong Towns: "4 Reasons We Must Build Our Streets for People (Not Just Cars).

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A reprise of the conversation (paraphrased) that I had with 3rd district councilman Greg Phipps last week. Me: We need to talk about t...

Red-faced old white guys howl in fury as March for Our Lives successfully occupies Bicentennial Park.

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Photo credits: social media. According to reports from social media and first-hand testimony, the crowd at Bicentennial Park for Saturd...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

This is the scariest Romeo Langford story you'll ever read.

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Don't worry, amateur (?) hoops obsessives -- the author delivers "good news" in the sense that he believes Romeo will be at...
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JeffBoat will close, riverside condos will proliferate, and we'll gather at the luxury dog park for a few bowls.

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From NA Confidential on October 21, 2016: Launching a barge is routine if you work at Jeff Boat ( American Commercial Barge Line ). A...
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Feast BBQ in New Albany is closing, and the last day will be Wednesday, March 28.

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Happy times. Rumors have been swirling for months, but today Ryan Rogers finally made the formal announcement. It's sad, but I'...

One positive aspect of our Trumped-up times is the "discrediting of evangelical Christianity."

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Ed Simon at Newsweek :  ...  Jerry Falwell Jr., cognizant enough of the disjuncture between personal piety and support of Trump but a...
Friday, March 23, 2018

The politics of diversion: "Chief Bailey is playing a losing hand, but then, they're not really his cards."

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Much ado about nothing, Jeffrey. Zilch, nada ... ничего. New Albany police chief questions motivation for 911 dispatch merger , by Eri...
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Charbonneau vs. FitzGerald, House 72, Democratic primary. What do you know, and who do you have?

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In their spare time between spiffy ritual brushings of the mayor's venerable Hush Puppies, AdamBot's muzzle-happy DemoDisneyDixie...

Undisputed top MUST READ of the week: "The Iraq invasion is no longer just one of the great crimes of this or any age – it's become a crossroads event in the history of America's decline."

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Welcome to rock bottom. Taibbi: The Legacy of the Iraq War , by Matt Taibbi ( Rolling Stone ) The invasion is no longer just one of ...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Jason Thomas on last week's #NationalSchoolWalkout: "It was constructive rebellion on a grand scale."

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Civilized discourse is dead, and I don't say this lightly, but some of the most ridiculous comments I've ever seen uttered on soc...

ON THE AVENUES: Remembering Max Allen, bartender extraordinaire.

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ON THE AVENUES: Remembering  Max Allen, bartender  extraordinaire.  A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. We're drinking my friend...

THE BEER BEAT: This is why the classic British-style pub CAN and DOES make it in America.

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I saw this article a couple of days ago, and it was strange, because the author was being attacked by the usual IPA-powered-cyber-know-...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: The genuine meaning of ersatz, with a bonus Mencken digression.

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Counterfeit, phony, bogus ... ersatz . I used to be fond of saying that Miller Lite was ersatz beer, although strictly speaking, this i...

Here's my letter to National Main Street about diversity, inclusion, Develop New Albany and non-transparency.

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Earlier in the week, we issued an emergency hubris status report. A contest to boycott: Read in amazement as Develop New Albany claims to...