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 …

Gulf Shores    There were red warning flags along the beach when I ran yesterday at dawn.  There were other warning signs as I ran over the decking built over the marsh at the nature trail admonishing potential alligator feeders that they faced a $500 fine or 6-months hard time.  I was sucking in the humidity …