I just uploaded a few pictures from my Easter weekend trip to Alabama. You can check them out here.

Update: As someone requested, I just provided links in the picture descriptions to a larger version of each. Enjoy.

I suggest that you head over and read Mike Hollihan’s posts regarding the Bill Hobbs political hit-job scenario: A Detailed Case Study of Press Abuse
He’s done an excellent job of analyzing the situation…from Kopp’s political affiliations to the motives behind the attacks.
More from Hollihan here and here.

Here’s a story that provides a little timely context to the Bill Hobbs story…
Hobbs was replying to anti-Semitism from Iran with satire when he drew his cartoon. This all became an issue because a state, Democrat political operative wanted to attack him for supporting state senator Jim Bryson for Governor. Then, a liberal reporter comes [...]

I’m not saying that there’s a connection here, but I’m just pointing to the possibility that the Scene’s Spragens might be carving a little niche as a political hack/pawn extraordinaire before he takes his job with Congressman Cooper -D (which I mentioned back in March).
Draw your own conclusions as you wish. At the very least, [...]

Don’t you love it when a political writer for a newspaper becomes the pawn (willing or unwilling) of a particular political party to smear the reputation of someone?
Enter John Spragens of the Nashville Scene.
Someone feeds Spragens a story about Bill Hobbs drawing a Mohammed cartoon that said, “Mohammed Blows.” Spragens offers no context and paints [...]