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May 29, 2008
Bob Mount: Limbaugh can frustrate, but he is interesting
Although I disagree with most of Rush Limbaugh’s positions, I enjoy listening to him because he spices his commentaries with his keen sense of humor.
May 13, 2008
Quiet time of year for bird watching
When I moved into my rock house in the woods about 25 years ago, during each evening and into the early morning hours beginning about April 15 and into mid-summer, I was serenaded by the plaintive calls of chuck-will’s-widows, birds commonly called whip-poor-wills by many living in these parts.
May 08, 2008
Bob Mount: Execution by lethal injection neither cruel nor painful
I was pleased by the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that execution of cold-blooded murderers by lethal injection does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.”
April 22, 2008
Bob Mount: Double-dipping issue puts state Democrats on lost highway
Bradley Byrne, chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system, is doing everything in his power to cleanse the system of the corruption that has plagued it, and so far, with the aid of federal prosecutors, he’s doing a masterful job.
April 15, 2008
Bob Mount: Calcium in drinking water can be beneficial for your heart
An article in the recent issue of AARP magazine caught my attention. It was written by Dan Buettner, who was interested in the reasons why so many residents of Hojancha, a village in Costa Rica, lived to be a 100 or more years.
April 10, 2008
Bob Mount: Daddy believed mafia was behind MLK assassination
Conspiracy theories concerning the death of Martin Luther King continue to circulate. James Earl Ray was convicted of the murder, and now his brother is writing a book in which he contends that the federal government was somehow involved.
April 04, 2008
Maybe the Democratic Party should give Gore another shot
Recently, I had my Flair pen in hand and was preparing to transpose my thoughts about the Clinton vs. Obama no holds barred fight to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president onto my yellow pad. I was going to offer my suggestion to Democratic bigwigs about how their party might have a dog’s chance of winning the election.
March 25, 2008
Bob Mount: We live in a haven for salamanders and other amphibious creatures
As a youngster living in a small town in middle Tennessee, my older cousin and I were picking up stove wood, and from under a piece I picked up scampered a lizard with a blue tail.
My cousin excitedly exclaimed, “Kill it, kill it, it’s a poisonous blue-tail scorpion.”
February 26, 2008
Bob Mount: Loachapoka offers quick voting service
Among my numerous faults is impatience. I detest standing in line for longer than a few minutes.
February 22, 2008
Legend of the groaning sewer frog
Forty years or so ago, the late Dr. F.S. Arant, head of the Zoology-Entomology Department at AU, where I was employed, handed me a letter he’d received from a man in Selma and said, “Bob, please respond to this.” The letter, in barely legible handwriting, was a complaint that a bullfrog was living in his sewer pipe, and that its croaking was keeping him awake at night. The letter included his telephone number and I called him.
February 12, 2008
Mount: Riley would make a better vice president choice than Huckabee
Last Thursday, an article appeared on the front page of this newspaper featuring the Order of Geezers, a.k.a the Geneva Street Think Tank. The article regarded the Geezers’ reaction to the outcomes of last Tuesday’s primaries.
