To Whom it May Concern

May 06 2008 – I hereby move that we rename the state of Alabama. I don’t know if I need to get a petition signed or pay up a lobbying firm, but I think it is only appropriate that we change our state name to Nanny-bama.

Apr 22 2008 – I think the country music super-group Alabama said it best when they sang "So let’s leave some blue up above us, Let’s leave some green on the ground, It’s only ours to borrow, let’s save some for tomorrow, Leave it and pass it on down." Other than just being another pearl of wisdom from the limestone bluffs of Fort Payne, it is also a big example of what is wrong with the environmental movement.

Apr 08 2008 – I just finished arguing with my two-year-old daughter about the limits of her television entertainment options.

Mar 25 2008 – Well it is officially here, the days and nights have evened up in length and now it is springtime.

Mar 11 2008 – A new study out by the group "People Who Study Stuff That the Rest of Us Already Know" has come to the conclusion that husbands who spend more time doing housework have wives that spend more time doing "bed-work." The actual group who did the study is the "Council on Contemporary Families" and they researched how men’s roles around the house have changed in the last 40 or so years.

Feb 25 2008 – There are some obvious places young children shouldn’t be taken to, like crack-houses, strip clubs, Gary Glitter’s apartment, nuclear weapons proving grounds, dog fights, the Centers for Disease Control, Chinese toy factories and church.

Feb 12 2008 – To all of you the Mrs. and I wrote thank you letters to after we were married, I’d like the thank you notes returned.

Jan 28 2008 – I usually do this job (writing this column) better when I’m agitated.

Jan 15 2008 – "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." There it is right there, our wise forefathers put the job description of president in plain American English.

Jan 01 2008 – "A man’s home is his castle." I think that is how the quote goes to which I retort, "My ass it is." If a home is anyone’s castle it is usually the dominion of the queen and the princesses and princes under her care.

Dec 18 2007 – Well here we are in the waning days of this year’s Christmas 500 race and I trust you are keeping the pace set by pop culture and your peers, because the American economy depends on it.

Dec 04 2007 – Dateline southern California…the fuel that powers the Hollywood machine is still on strike.

Nov 20 2007 – Well there is a new protest going on in Alabama today.

Nov 06 2007 – On a warm night about two months ago in the Pennsylvania mountains, a remote camera snapped a picture that has set the Big Foot believers of the world on fire.

Oct 23 2007 – Well, Internet voyeurs there is a big birthday coming up this week for us to celebrate.

Oct 09 2007 – For all the dire predictions of its failure, the U.S.

Sep 25 2007 – In the next few paragraphs I hope I can quickly and efficiently tell you what is bothering me.

Sep 11 2007 – I’ve broken free from analyzing the lyrics to Nelly Furtado’s "Promiscuous" today to pass along a warning – a parable-meets-after-school-special of sorts.

Aug 28 2007 – What is wrong with America? Many people think our country is on the down slope, having passed its golden age and beginning a descent into ruin.

Aug 14 2007 – Men of America listen up, it is time to head disaster off at the pass.

Jul 31 2007 – I’m a pretty lasseiz faire kind of guy. Live and let live I say.

Jul 17 2007 – Christopher Columbus is the most famous explorer in Western history.

Jun 19 2007 – Whew! What a Father’s Day weekend, we really blew it out this year.

Jun 05 2007 – Superman had his kryptonite, Vampires have the sun, Mr.

May 22 2007 – Ohh the passing of time, the landmarks of pop culture fall like giant hollow, plastic redwoods leaving space for a new generation of pop icons to do their best to grow the fastest and take their rightful place in the verdant canopy of the American psyche.

May 08 2007 – Do you ever feel like you’re being set up for an episode of "Punk’d" or "Candid Camera" or stumbled into an episode of the "Twilight Zone?

Apr 25 2007 – I have really tried to come up with something other than the Virginia Tech murders to write about for my column.

Apr 10 2007 – "A man’s home is his castle." I think that is how the quote goes to which I retort, "My ass it is." If a home is anyone’s castle it is usually the dominion of the queen and the princesses and princes under her care.

Mar 28 2007 – They say little children are sponges, soaking up everything around them and adding it to the cache of life experiences that leads eventually to adulthood.

Mar 13 2007 – Well the news is out, this week Angelina Jolie is adopting another child, which is a good thing I guess.

Feb 27 2007 – There is something we guys have that can cause us a lot of trouble.

Feb 13 2007 – There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.

Jan 30 2007 – I think the adage is "spare the rod spoil the child" and if California lawmaker Sally Lieber has her way there will be a whole lot of spoiled children in the Golden State.

Jan 16 2007 – Our intrepid columnist launches into a tirade on the intelligence of our feline compainions.

Jan 02 2007 – I’m going to start out this New Year on a positive note.

Dec 19 2006 – This will be my last column of 2006 and therefore a fitting time for the "To Whom it May Concern" 2006 year in review.

Dec 05 2006 – Have you ever seen those studies that total up the amount of hours you spend doing X?

Nov 21 2006 – Well if the horsemen of the apocalypse aren’t enroute, they’re damn sure gathering the horses and putting saddles on them.

Nov 08 2006 – Well "O.K. Tuesday" has passed and believe it or not, our state and nation are still here.

Oct 25 2006 – Hi my name is Sean and I am an Internet addict. Ooh, I need to use that as the quote underneath my avatar on MySpace.

Oct 10 2006 – As hard as this might be to believe, there is trouble afoot on Capitol Hill.

Sep 27 2006 – We live in the best country in the world. That’s no rah-rah Lee Greenwood statement; that is a fact.

Sep 13 2006 – As I’m sure you know by now the "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin is dead.

Aug 29 2006 – We are so very lucky to live in a world populated by governments that are concerned with our well-being.

Aug 16 2006 – A three-hour road trip and a 6-CD changer were the ingredients that got me thinking last week about how the music in my collection relates.

Aug 01 2006 – I’ve broken free from analyzing the lyrics to Nelly Furtado’s "Promiscuous" today to pass along a warning – a parable-meets-after-school-special of sorts.

Jul 19 2006 – I know this is taboo for a radio guy like me, but I’m about to discuss another radio station for some 600 to 700 words.

Jul 05 2006 – Independence Day recently happened and this holiday is becoming more and more a memory of times gone by than a celebration of the spirit of the United States.

Jun 21 2006 – The U.S. soccer team has done it again and lost in the first round of the World Cup.

Jun 06 2006 – I’m a guy who is impressed with someone who comes up with an original business plan and implements it well.

May 23 2006 – Let me start with one of those disclaimers I seem to lean on every couple of weeks, the way that goofy guy in your office leans on the latest television catch phrase to season his boring conversations.

May 09 2006 – OK, I just got done re-reading the Bill of Rights, and as always it was a great read.

Apr 26 2006 – "The revolution won’t be televised." Gil Scott Heron wrote those words many years ago, but many today think it may be podcasted.

Apr 11 2006 – I’m really at a loss for something, anything cohesive, to rail about this week.

Mar 29 2006 – I really wanted to write about David Thomas’ Mardi Gras spending spree in this issue’s " To Whom it May Concern," but one of our editors is so good at it and seems to derive such pleasure from writing about the school board that I couldn’t take it away from him.

Mar 14 2006 – Spring, while not officially here, has sprung in my book.

Mar 01 2006 – So I quit nicotine as a New Year’s resolution. I’m still clean and sticking to my promise to get off and stay off the tobacco bandwagon.

Feb 14 2006 – I hope you are already preparing for Mardi Gras. I fear many of us don’t realize the change that is about to take place in our Mardi Gras celebration.

Jan 31 2006 – By Sean Sullivan Lagniappe columnist Influence peddling is such a rough word for such a silky practice.

Jan 18 2006 – "Where do we go from here," the wise prophet Alan Parsons once asked years ago.

Jan 04 2006 – It’s a quiet night at the Sullivan house, with my wife and daughter out for the evening, it’s almost like the days of my 20s and early 30s, with nothing but the sound of whirring blades on the ceiling fan, ice tinkling in a glass filled with a brown water libation and the light scratching of the dog at the back door trying to negotiate passage into the house.

Dec 21 2005 – ‘Tis the season to wear tacky clothes. All it takes is a look at the vanguard of seasonal sweaters hanging on or stretched over the frames of well-meaning-but-misdirected celebrants in malls and grocery stores everywhere.

Dec 07 2005 – There’s nothing like packing everything you own into an army of cardboard boxes to let you know you have too much stuff.