The World Around You

Congratulations to Truett Cathy and the folks at Chick-Fil-A on their 40th anniversary. It’s my favorite fast food restaurant and I have a hard time NOT getting a chicken biscuit each morning, as it takes a toll on my waist line.

In 1967, the year the first Chick-fil-A(R) restaurant opened in Atlanta’s Greenbriar Mall, shopping centers did not have “fast-food” restaurants and certainly not food courts. Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, Inc. helped to change that trend as it became the pioneer of in-mall fast food dining with the opening of its first chicken restaurant in the South’s first enclosed shopping center.

Chick-fil-A: Chick-fil-A Chain Celebrates 40 Years of Success and Service to the Community

My man, Marc Broussard got some more NPR love this morning on Morning Edition.

NPR : Singer Marc Broussard Remakes Soul

7-Eleven is turning 11 of its stores across the country into full blown Kwik-E Marts…to market the new Simpsons movie. The world we live in is truly stunning sometimes.

MTV Movies Blog: My Adventures Into The Mouth Of The 7-Eleven Kwik-E-Mart

Governor Riley had to know he was going to bring some good-spirited needling on the state when he asked citizens in a proclamation to pray for rain. One of the news satire sites has published the following: Alabama Governor Riley Asks Citizens to Curse Drought - U.S. - Avant News

“With this new proclamation, the governor is stepping it up a notch. He hopes, through the Curse Drought campaign, to make the heavenly Father feel so shamed and remorseful about having inflicted this pestilential drought upon Alabama in the first place that He’ll let up some and shift a load of cumulonimbus clouds down from the northwest, where they’re apparently right waterlogged.”

More wonderful attention for Sen. Shelby of Alabama.

“What we heard right after Hurricane Katrina was a lot of people saying the Corps didn’t get enough money … that our infrastructure is falling apart across the country,” [Steve] Ellis [Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense] said. “Then they’re directing unnecessary money to a project that one senator wants, and we don’t know how many other Tuscaloosa-type projects are in this bill.”

This is definitely a lesson in how things get done in Washington, and a case study in letting politics override need.

Hometown Senator Boosts Unneeded Office - Forbes.com

This sounds like good police work to me. I hope they keep up this kind of activity.

Montgomery Advertiser: 2 in custody as police team confiscates drugs, guns

Richard Scrushy’s son, Brandon Scrushy was arrested and charged with unlawful drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia on Tuesday night. How unfortunate…

AP: Scrushy’s son among 4 arrested on drug charges in Shelby County