Here in Birmingham we have a history of getting fed up with shit, and then deciding not to take it anymore, and organizing against that shit. When Walgreen’s proposed that they tear down the historic Fire Station No. 22 on Clairmont Ave., and tear down Bogue’s and Clairmont Auto, we decided we’d had enough.

SHINING UP THE SHEEN: Salon.com columnist/blogger Glenn Greenwald is someone that I both admire and despise. His fanatical devotion to ideals of transparency and the rule of law are inspiring, if his level of dedication is sometimes annoying. He’s the kind of guy whose politics are rooted firmly in his ideals—Greenwald is like some sort of rock that can’t be eroded, and the nation’s politics move around him like the sea. He spent much of the last decade beating up on the George W. Bush administration for abuses of constitutional power and transparency, and it appears that he will be spending the first part of this decade treating the Barack Obama administration with a similar level of contempt for committing the same trespasses.

“I was contacted several weeks ago by a firm we’ve worked with out of Birmingham, indicating that BP needed help with communications with local government entities, understanding how things worked in south Alabama, and facilitating accessibility to the claims process,” Perkins said.

It was late in the afternoon on the last Friday in April, and Reed Lochamy and his brother Will were hanging out in the basement of Reed’s house, in Bluff Park. The basement’s shelves were lined with various musical instruments; on one wall there was a poster for a Velvet Underground album that prominently features Andy Warhol’s depiction of a banana. An ancient TV displayed a golf tournament, its sound muted. Reed fiddled with the settings on a digital audio recorder to his right. “Brethren,” a song by Birmingham songwriter Wes McDonald, started playing softly from a pair of headphones on a table between the two brothers.

SIX F**KING WEEKS: As the ongoing soap opera in the Gulf of Mexico became more and more of a reality show, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday in New Orleans that he has launched a criminal investigation of the events surrounding the April 20 Deepwater Horizon.

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