It has started out as a blustery day in Pensacola, fairly possibly making today’s Blue Angels season-ending finale trickier than usual, and it would have been tricky decent with the lost No. 4 slot plane pilot grounded for “an inappropriate relationship” with a female colleague.Sex guilt. One gift…

Calculated Risk reports that Hartford Financial Group, which until now was mainly an insurance company, “has applied to convert to savings-and-loan status.” It additionally plans to buy Federal Trust Corp., a Florida bank, for $10 million.The commerce plan here is to remake Hartford into a bank so …

A couple of months ago, we quoted a Pensacola area retailer who remarked that commerce “fell off a cliff” starting in April. A number of others have told us the same thing.Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released early projections on retail sales in October and the blog Calculated Risk supplies a grap…

We’re with Rachel on that one. To be certain, Joe Lieberman is no longer a progressive. But the core problem really is that Lieberman’s word is worthless. Sooner or later he betrays everyone who places their trust in him:Original post by Beach Blogger

The fake New York Times is now on the web. whether you print it out, do you suppose it will become a collector’s item?DEPT. OF CORRECTIONSOriginal post by Beach Blogger

Think you’ve seen all the damage to America George W. Bush can do? Remember the wisdom of Yogi Berra: “It ain’t by ’til it’s by.”Salon:Constitutionally, neither Congress nor the courts can prevent President Bush from signing such a pardon. It would, however, be the first preemptive pardon in U.S. h…

We don’t find ourselves agreeing with a lot of what Andrew Sullivan writes, but on that he’s absolutely right. Sarah Palin is a demonstrably silly, incurious, incompetent individual. And she lost.But she still things. Think of her as the canary in the coal mine of our electoral democracy:The impu…

This would be good. Attorneys for seven Panama City juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse acquitted by local jurors in the beating death of a 14-year-old detainee say a new Obama administration might increase chances of a federal indictment against the eight.Panama City juries have a lot in common w…

AP News Service, Nov. 8: Gov. Sarah Palin denounced anonymous criticisms leveled at her by former John McCain aides as lies, including allegations that Republican lawyers were traveling to Alaska to reclaim her high-priced wardrobe and that she didn’t know Africa was a continent.”Those accounts are …

Eschaton is going to be a bank! Just like everyone else who wants a cut of that dough.Original post by Beach Blogger

In our book, the Greater Gulf Coast Arts Festival is the most enjoyable, relaxing, civilized multi-day outdoor event of the year in Pensacola. It’s a complex event, too, yet so well managed that it comes off, year after year, without a visible misstep.There’s something for nearly everyone — wet art…