Heads and tales: Vote and/or die

Save him a seat: Frank Matthews, a k a “God’s Gangster,” took Tuesday’s city council runoff defeat to incumbent Carol Reynolds with his usual graciousness. “The African-Americans and particularly those in District 2 who voted for Carol Reynolds — they can go straight to hell. This is not sour grapes; this is just truth.” Matthews, who is black, also told the Jews they could go to “Jewish hell,” Muslims to “Muslim hell” and Hispanics to “East L.A.”
• Bell takes council seat back [Birmingham News]

The sky is falling — on you: The latest Disney-sans-Pixar animated offering, “Chicken Little,” opens today at Patton Creek in Hoover in … 3-D. Now, if they could just add some dimension to “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” …
• ‘Chicken Little’ in digital 3-D in select locations Nov. 4 [press release]

Upon further review, the jury sentences the offense to a 15-yard penalty: “The state Supreme Court sided with the Alabama High School Athletic Association on Thursday and ended Litchfield High’s football season. The court, with an 8-0 vote and a one-page ruling, voided an Etowah County circuit judge’s ruling Wednesday over Litchfield’s appeal that it had not violated AHSAA rules.” Ah, lawyers, the cause of — and solution to — all of life’s problems.
• Supreme Court rules in favor of AHSAA, not Litchfield [Montgomery Advertiser]

Spaced invader: A dang foreigner attorney from Flori-la-dee-da is at the center of a Fayette County civil case, in which family members of two slain police officers and a dispatcher are suing the maker of “Grand Theft Auto.” Why? Because the convicted murderer played it. A lot. The lawyer in question, Jack Thompson, represents the plaintiffs and blames his participation on his obsessive playing of the board game “Clue.”
• Attorney is subject in ‘video game’ case [Tuscaloosa News]

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