Brian Lyman

Here’s our mission statement at @alreflector.bsky.social. From my first column on launch day in February 2023.

I would plea to Americans to understand that a narcissist approaching his ninth decade of narcissism cannot conceive of a world independent from his hatred and grudges and to treat his words and actions accordingly.

My column from Monday. Huntsville is a great city. But Huntsville is in a state that treats women as children and has juvenile and dangerous attitudes toward gun access. It’s no surprise Space Command officials have repeatedly warned that many of their civilian employees might not move to Alabama.

We’re going to need a third Reconstruction.

Lincoln gets out of the tour by telling all the poop jokes he knows

Disco corrupts. But disco also reveals.

Alabamians live under a government designed to thwart popular will and discourage voter participation, and most people here do not actually choose to live like this.

Personally, I find excess in earnestly treating people with respect far less annoying than viewing embittered masochism as some secret folk wisdom. We have quite a lot of the latter in Alabama.

It’s hard to see a scenario where Tuberville loses the Alabama gubernatorial race, but I remain baffled by his campaign team’s choices.

The pivot-to-video debacle stemmed from Facebook badly misreading its metrics.

🤔 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

If you read a parenting book from the time, you’re going to be haunted by chapters that address the deaths of children and can only offer the hope of reconciliation in the afterlife. Not because they’re callously pious. Because there was nothing else that was available.

Alabama: 5.24% turnout yesterday