Alabama Bound

Ladies and gentlemen, the next senator from Alabama:

Jeff Sessions won't be returning to his old job. Sessions was defeated by Republican opponent Tommy Tuberville, Auburn University's former head football coach, in their Alabama Senate primary runoff Tuesday night. He now takes on Democratic incumbent Sen. Doug Jones in November. Sessions was trailing Tuberville in the polls, despite outspending his rival in their prolonged race for the nomination. He also increasingly attacked Tuberville for his inexperience and not agreeing to a debate, especially after Tuberville edged him out in their March 3 primary.

How big a deal is it that Tuberville coached Auburn? Let's put it this way. The Southern schools only desegregated when integrated northern schools started whooping their butts. Losing to a bunch of Yankees, why I never...The only way of life that really matters down their is college football.

It was tempting to stick with the easy, reliable choice, but no. We've seen that movie before and it doesn't end well. Time to move on from Jeff Sessions.

Various and Varied

Our Super Tuesday rap will be up today at Inforos.

Alabama will have a runoff between Sessions and Tuberville. We're having second thoughts about the coach. Lord knows what skeletons await in his coaching closet. Recruiting shenanigans, pulling strings for grades, getting criminal charges dismissed, etc etc. Foreign readers, college football is an utter cesspit where students major in 'football' and 'graduate' not being able to read. Even 'clean' programs like Penn State have....well...you can just look that up.

Wrote a couple of intro scenes in The Final Storm. Meetings, bloody meetings. You people say you like this stuff.

This is not a dream journal, but last night we fell asleep, rolled over onto our face, and had a nightmare. We've had these weird dreams of late where we are able to take control of things and confront the nightmare head on, usually through physical violence. Huh.

GOP Already +1 for Senate 2020

In 2017 the Alabama GOP really screwed up by nominating Judge Roy Moore for the US Senate, essentially giving the seat to Democrat Doug Jones.*

The pre-Trump GOP being run by weaklings and accommodationists, Alabama Republicans would probably have tapped former senator Jeff Sessions to run for his old seat.** Doug Jones, who is a long shot to keep his seat, is probably counting on the GOP to do just this.

Bad news for him. Former Auburn University football head coach Tommy Tuberville has announced he's running against Jones.

That ought to about do it.

Foreign reader(s) should understand that down south college football is kinda a big deal. We're understating the sport's importance on purpose as we don't think we could ever capture what college football means to the good citizens of the South.

Lemme put it this way, southern universities finally desegregated because the integrated northern schools were beating them. A way of life is one thing, but we're talking about college football here.

Auburn is in National College Athletic  Association's  Southeastern Conference, a thing unto itself which could secede (heh) from the NCAA and thrive on its own. Usually the national champion is from the SEC. The conference is run by a gang of dirty rotten bastards. So poltiics probbaly won't seem that rough to Tuberville.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the next senator from the Great State of Alabama.

*The end of Steve Bannon

**They did this is Wisconsin and Virginia in 2012