The Flyer offices are on the river bluff in downtown Memphis. Some days, when the weather is nice, I get to work early, wander over to the Bluff Walk, and watch the sunlight hit the bridges and the river and Arkansas beyond…
The year 2011 was a good one for backward legislators and snakes; a bad one for international despots, those living on a flood plain, and local cats and dogs. Return with me now as I perform my year-in-review journalistic duty and offer some highlights from the past 12 months ...
I should be grateful to the Tennessee legislature for providing me and other columnists around the country with so much fodder for humor. With their, um, endless, er, bottomless, er, enduring fascination with controlling all things gay, our GOP Nashville cats have become a national punch line ...