Posted on 13 December 2011
How did five female Army support soldiers–mechanics, supply clerks and engineers–end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq War? In their documentary Lioness, directors Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers give an intimate look at war through the eyes of the first women in U.S. history sent into [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 23 November 2011
ModMobilian sits down with Occupy Mobile members Tyler Henderson and Nick Brattoli to address some of the questions and accusations most people have raised against the Occupy Wall Street movement here in Mobile, AL. Video by Logan Bowes and Joel Messamore. Part 1 of 2. Questions: Do you work for a living? Do most of the Occupy protesters work? Are [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 23 October 2011
“Useful idiot” is a term (mistakenly attributed to Lenin but first used to describe Soviet sympathizers in the West) that refers to people who act as propagandists for causes they don’t understand or are actually injurious to themselves. As soon as we heard there was an “Occupy Mobile Alabama” movement the first thought that came to mind [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 October 2011
Short film by Mobile filmmakers Isabel Machado and Daniel Wildberger (Rootsy Hip) on Occupy Mobile (Oct. 15). Continue Reading
Posted on 19 October 2011
Pete Riehm is running for Alabama’s U.S. House District 1 against Jo Bonner in the Republican primary. This interview was conducted by email and is unedited. MM: Tell us about your background. PR: Our web site (www.votepeteriehm.com) has the lengthy BIO, but here is a brief overview: Born to German immigrants and raised in a blue collar working [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 12 October 2011
Think this doesn't affect you? You don't care about local music? You are over 21? You shortsighted fool. Continue Reading
Posted on 16 September 2011
“If they feel like the money is more important than the long-term well being of the area, that’s their fault. But I don’t see how a landlord could raise a stink about the homeless situation down here but then turn a blind eye to what’s been going on with Atlantis for years.” Continue Reading
Posted on 21 July 2011
Mobile Mayor Sam Jones & Police Chief Tyrone Williams announced a multi-part Crime Initiative on Wednesday: 1) Juvenile Curfew: for under 18-years-old – 11pm on weekdays, 12am on weekends. 2) Increased police presence downtown 3) Turn the downtown surveillance cameras on 4) Tougher copper theft penalties 5) Indecent exposure ordinance: pants or skirts 4″ or more below the hips are [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 July 2011
Dear Sirs and Madams: We want to relate to you that we held a poll on our website www.modmobilian.com and with over 200 respondents only 7% were in favor of continuing to spend more money on the GulfQuest Maritime Museum as is. Ninety-three percent (93%) wanted to either stop spending entirely or consider reworking the project [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 18 July 2011
A special guest column by TURK 301: I love where I live and where I spend most of my free time – but I don’t recognize my home anymore. Not feeling safe where you live is horrible. Watching something with so much potential be destroyed by vicious and dreadful outsiders is a very painful and now [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 July 2011
Mayor Sam Jones has proposed another loan for the QulfQuest “Container Ship Museum” that will cost $16.7 million in debt service, of which $3 million is new money needed to finish the project – in addition to the $25 million the City has already spent. The city has until July 20 to finalize the deal. The museum’s [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2011
"America is supposed to be the exception to that, a pluralistic country built on a tradition of immigration. An American isn’t supposed to look a certain way or have a specific accent. We’re marked by one thing: fealty to the nation and the Constitution." Continue Reading
Posted on 24 June 2011
"The police force was eaten up with dysfunction even in those days. I had a buddy on the MPD then who told me stories about the divisions on the force, the black officers that hated the white officers and vice versa. My pal was a big white guy from up north so he fell between the cracks. Too light for the blacks in blue, not red enough for the rest.” Continue Reading
Posted on 10 June 2011
"So Tony, load up your digitized underpants and head south. We don’t care about your peccadilloes. We don’t even care about your secret past playing Screech on 'Saved by the Bell.'” Continue Reading
Posted on 31 May 2011
See below where Mobile and Baldwin Representatives stand and their contact info. See our previous post on why SB 192 – Brewery Modernization Act – is important for Alabama Craft Brewers and is also essential to ever having a brewery on Dauphin St. again. It will: Production Breweries Allowed to have tastings and samplings without ABC restriction on time [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 10 May 2011
We use pseudonyms so people have to think about what is being said - not about who is saying it. Continue Reading
Posted on 06 May 2011
“Sure, Hassan, live in a cave, subsist on goat urine and beetle carcasses. It’s all for the glory of Allah.” Meanwhile, he’s chilled in a private compound in the Pakistani suburbs, roaming a garden, waited on hand and foot by his herd of wives and progeny. Everyone’s had that boss before…and we all hated him. Continue Reading
Posted on 04 May 2011
Free the Hops has called a “ceasefire” (?) in its Anheuser-Busch Distributor Boycott after it appears to have reached a compromise on a revised SB192 Brewery Modernization Act. Unfortunately that compromise would not allow brewpubs to sell their beer retail in stores – one of the main goals of the legislation. It was that point that the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 22 April 2011
"Sure, I know stereotypical potheads who surrendered their lives to it, much as I know alcoholics of all stripes. However, I also know responsible smokers who indulge on a par with drinkers who can down a couple of beers without going off the deep end." Continue Reading
Posted on 13 April 2011
Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate will speak in Point Clear May 3 Continue Reading
Posted on 23 March 2011
"The stronger financial resources of the University of Alabama Public Radio system in today's environment of uncertainty in federal public radio funding make the impending transfer to the University all the more timely for the 91.3 WHIL listening audience." Continue Reading
Posted on 23 February 2011
The End of Gadaffi and a FREE LIBYA --or-- more Genocide and the failure of the revolution? Continue Reading
Posted on 13 February 2011
Feb 21 (President's Day) 1pm at the Crescent Theater - Documentary "transcends the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy". " Continue Reading
Posted on 04 February 2011
"We roll our eyes when we see picket signs and ridicule activism from 'troublemakers.' Many of us would sign over most everything we had as long as diversions remained intact. 'I don’t care if they do away with jury trials as long as the Tide tees it up in September and we get off for Mardi Gras.'" Continue Reading
