Gulf Shores Almost as interesting as the white sand and rolling waves several hundred yards south of the beach house where we are all staying, is the salt marsh only fifty feet away to the north running for hundreds of acres through inlet swamps and a brackish lake not far away. Cat tails spring up …
Month: August 2008
Ripping on the Run
Gulf Shores In the way back pages of the Wall Street Journal today an item was buried that jumped up like a searchlight on a dark night. To no one’s surprise (at least no one I know!) it seems that even after the total collapse of New Century Mortgage Company in early 2007, most lenders …
Passive Protest
Gulf Shores Reading about the plans of protestors strategizing about the coming Democratic Convention in Denver is pretty depressing. The Wall Street Journal is hardly the best source for mainlining such information perhaps, but reading the comments of various organizers made one think more of party planners desperate to entertain bored debutantes than people trying …