FINDING GOD II

FINDING GOD II

• by Chris Davis

The First Road Trip

Adventure is out there, but it might take a while to find it.

• by Paul Gerald

THE WEATHERS REPORT

OSAMA COUNTS HIS BLESSINGS: HERE'S 8 OF 'EM! Osama bin Laden must be a happy man today. The United States is playing right into his hands. Since September 11, 2001, we have freely given him every item on his wish list. Consider what Osama wants....

• by Ed Weathers

A POP QUIZ ON THE FRENCH

"If you view France, for its disagreement with George Bush's approach to Saddam Hussein, as cowardly, you may be wrong. Pause to consider the battles of Auerstadt, Zurich, Marengo, Jena, Castiglione, Rivoli, Aspern-Essling, Austerlitz, Wagram and Friedland, fought by France against a coalition of Russia, England and Austria in most instances. Learn of their courage, fighting doctrine and will, then call them cowards."

• by Ed Weathers

City Reporter

TVA's proposed rate increase could affect MLGW, Memphians.

• by Flyer Staff

Goodbye, Mistyland

A Central Gardens landmark -- of sorts -- goes not so gently into that good night.

• by Denise White

FROM MY SEAT

TIME FOR HOPE On a team of heroes, a team of knights, Larry Finch was Lancelot. He was the cowboy in the white hat for those '73 Tigers, the general with the four stars, the gladiator with the silver shield. But Saturday night, during the 10-minute presentation that should have been his stage for prancing, Larry Finch's chariot was reduced to a wheelchair. It's an image no Memphis basketball fan in attendance will find easy to forget. A dozen still-strong, still-smiling heroes surrounding their wounded warrior chief.

• by Frank Murtaugh

FINDING GOD I

FINDING GOD I

• by Chris Davis

Sex in the City

How do we love in Memphis? Let us count the ways.

• by Flyer Staff

HOW IT LOOKS

• by Ed Weathers

TRANSLATION: MEMPHIS: World War X

According to Uncle John's Great Big Bathroom Reader, circa 1998, the US city with the highest per capita number of psychiatrists is Washington DC.

• by Jenn Hall

MANAGEMENT SHAKE-UP AT CONCORD AS STOCK SLIDES

Concord EFS, the Memphis-based company that processes credit card transactions, announced a management reorganization Thursday as its stock price, already down 70 percent, continued to slide.

• by Ed Weathers

'PROTEST AGAINST AUTHORITY IS A WAY OF LIFE'

The author of this article, a technical writer in Booneville, Mississippi, is the brother of Alex McPeak, the University of Memphis student whose letter opposing war with Iraq ran in On the Fly this week under the title "I Write This in Protest." Shorn of some passages that seemed to us arguably more ad hominem than directly relevant to the essentials of the issue, this is his response. The division of the McPeak clan on the issue of Iraq may be a synecdoche of sorts for a general divisiveness caused by the controversy in the nation at large.

• by Ed Weathers

'WALKING TALL' REDUX

'WALKING TALL' REDUX

• by Chris Davis

'WE STAND PASSIVELY MUTE'

'Frankly many of the pronouncements made by this Administration are outrageous. There is no other word. Yet this chamber is hauntingly silent. On what is possibly the eve of horrific infliction of death and destruction on the population of the nation of Iraq -- a population, I might add, of which over 50% is under age 15 -- this chamber is silent. On what is possibly only days before we send thousands of our own citizens to face unimagined horrors of chemical and biological warfare -- this chamber is silent. On the eve of what could possibly be a vicious terrorist attack in retaliation for our attack on Iraq, it is business as usual in the United States Senate. We are truly "sleepwalking through history." In my heart of hearts I pray that this great nation and its good and trusting citizens are not in for a rudest of awakenings. To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any President who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50% children is "in the highest moral traditions of our country."'

• by Ed Weathers

MAY I PLEASE HELP ALL OF YOU?

The company that owns several fast-food franchises in the Mid-South has been ordered to make their burgers and fries accessible to everyone, not just those who can walk through their doors. U.S. Attorney Terrell Harris' office has filed a complaint against Century Management, LLC, alleging that many of the McDonald's restaurants operated by the company are in violation of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). The complaint alleges that the restaurants contain physical barriers which should be removed.

• by Ed Weathers

Short Cuts

Laughter and dissent from two great underground comedians.

• by Chris Herrington

CITY BEAT

INVESTMENT UPDATE For Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, what could be worse than the team's 5-11 record in 2002? How about his own investment record?

• by Ed Weathers

No Love Lost

Shelby County Commissioners Loeffel and Willingham are having a problem.

• by Jackson Baker

POLITICS: No Love Lost

There [was] an incident in which Willingham, responding to what he saw as overt hostility on Loeffel's part, put his hands on her shoulders-- in a caring, avuncular manner, as he describes it-- and asked her what was wrong. Loeffel, who remembers the incident as one in which Willingham "got in my face," told him to take his hands off. Both principals agree that she then said, "Don't you ever touch me again!"

• by Jackson Baker

'I WRITE THIS IN PROTEST': A LETTER

"I write this for the thousands of middle and lower class troops that have to fight in another rich man's war. Kids whose parents don't make enough money to keep them off the battlefields. I write this for those who believe this is about oil-- not justice or freedom or democracy or any of those words politicians and public relations firms pervert and try to sell us. I write this for those who don't believe Bush's liar, liar pants on fire indictment of Iraq. I write this for those who think Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden are monsters created by us, funded by our money, and armed with our weapons."

• by Ed Weathers

Picture This

Anthony Rice has honed the art of doing well.

• by Chris Gadd

The Opposite of Sex

The Mae West comedy Dirty Blonde isn't so dirty. And its roots are showing.

• by Chris Davis

Praise Be

Godard's latest film comes to Memphis.

Investment Update

Dallas Cowboys owner files $16 million claim in Howell case.

• by John Branston

It's a Wrap

The answer to Memphis' problems as an STI center? The condom.

• by Ellen Ruby-markie

Unpatriotic Act

Unpatriotic Act

• by Editorial

Postscript

Flyer readers respond.

• by Flyer Readers

Writin' Is Fightin'

In battle with Ishmael Reed.

• by Leonard Gill