Thanks for posting the link, Ben. I just moved down here a year ago and it’s reassuring to hear such sunny forecasts for the area.

a friend of mine used to write for Mother Jones and he says he knew a dude who wrote for em, and the mandate from on high was not to use direct quotes so you come across as more authoritative… also, they preach the neo-liberalism dogma without really even pretending that alternative viewpoints might be worth consideration (for real, if they give voice to two sides, it’s often like “here’s what the business class wants, and here’s what the ignorant rabble thinks”)…

apart from that, it’s better than any U.S. news magazine by a country mile.

…give some conjecture on the recruiting side. several pundits have long insisted that the demographic move to the sunbelt and the subsequent boom in talent at schools as well as folks able to put their money behind their fandom has been the primary reason for the growth of the SEC since the mid-1990s. could this happen on a state-level? and how might it affect the alabama/auburn power struggle in that area of the state?

…in Birmingham, and what we need is a really big one of these:

Of course, we’d need to take one down to Montgomery, too, to really have a fighting chance.