Spitball Army

Our big-city paper transforms the news into decidedly small-town titillations by portraying snarky online comments as headlines.

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The Orchestra Rocks;
celery;
interactive journalism

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The Birmingham News’ John Archibald writes a thrice-weekly column of opinion, most often about the happenings at Birmingham’s City Hall and the Jefferson County Commission. His writing is usually pointed, insightful and well-reasoned if, at times, a melodramatic match for the political histrionics he’s observing. Today’s “Archiblog,” as his column is called, veered unpredictably toward the illogical.

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Flynn was at his Manhattan apartment on the day the planes hit. He jumped on his bicycle and headed straight to the scene, arriving in the area as thousands were fleeing.

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When I picked up the edition from the 24th and pulled the blue plastic bag from it, a bitter acid smell slapped me in the face. I immediately dropped the bag, looked at my hand and, raising it to my nose, got blasted once again by the unmistakable stench of cat urine.

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I have tried to explain to people outside of Birmingham the reasons why the populace – or, at least, the people that I come into contact with – have had grave concerns about the future and stability of the city since Larry Langford moved to Birmingham (after entering the election for mayor…try describing that scenario to savvy citizens and watch their faces contort in disbelief!). It’s not like we didn’t have problems before last November’s election. It’s just that the majority of the voters decided that it would be best to put the future of the metropolis in the hands of someone currently under investigation by the Feds, and with a notorious reputation for driving businesses into disaster and dissolution while keeping his nose clean.

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And that was why Dorothy Monet, 18, artist and fashion designer, was in Lincoln Hospital yesterday with Peter Martono, 25, a Puerto Rican, who slashed her wrists and his.

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