SWEET TEA SUMMIT COVERS ‘GO FISH’ AND GEORGIA’S WATER WARS I have just attended the Sweet Tea Summit. It was like President Obama’s recent Beer Summit except we didn’t have to endure Joe Biden and his motor mouth. Gov. Sonny Perdue’s communications chief Bert Brantley has enough problems on his plate that he didn’t need to keep reading my smart-aleck calibrations about his … [Read more...] about Aug. 10, 2009: Sweet Tea Summit Covers ‘Go Fish’ And Georgia’s Water Wars
2009 Columns
Aug. 3, 2009: Georgia Democratic Congressman Not Sold On Current Health Care Reform Legislation
GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN NOT SOLD ON CURRENT HEALTH CARE REFORM LEGISLATION I called Democratic Congressman Jim Marshall who represents Georgia’s 8th Congressional District in Middle Georgia to check the status of health care reform currently lurching its way through Congress. I know what is being proposed. What I wanted to know was if this hydra-headed monster has a … [Read more...] about Aug. 3, 2009: Georgia Democratic Congressman Not Sold On Current Health Care Reform Legislation
Jul. 27, 2009: Maybe Obama And I Just Need To Calibrate Better
MAYBE OBAMA AND I JUST NEED TO CALIBRATE BETTER If comments made in this space have in any way angered, dismayed or caused dry heaves to anyone who has read them, it may be that I should have calibrated my words differently. I’ll guarantee Barack Obama knows what I’m talking about. If you were watching President Obama’s love-in with his lap dogs in the national media — … [Read more...] about Jul. 27, 2009: Maybe Obama And I Just Need To Calibrate Better
Jul. 20, 2009: Zell Miller Is A Hard Dog To Keep Under The Porch
ZELL MILLER IS A HARD DOG TO KEEP UNDER THE PORCH This is my first column since my rotator cuff surgery and it hasn’t been easy getting the words to come out the way I intended them to. My left hand is slower than a Georgia Income Tax return and my right hand is totally unsympathetic and flies across the keyboard like a bunny rabbit. What results are some newly-minted words … [Read more...] about Jul. 20, 2009: Zell Miller Is A Hard Dog To Keep Under The Porch
Jul. 13, 2009: Georgia Council On Economic Education Shows Our Kids Are Smarter Than Critics
GEORGIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION SHOWS OUR KIDS ARE SMARTER THAN CRITICS Okay, you Neal Boortz Kool-Aid drinkers (including those who wrote to defend your boy and couldn’t even spell his name correctly), I have a few questions for you: 1: If Andy can produce either 24 loaves of bread or eight pounds of butter in an eight-hour day, while John can produce either eight … [Read more...] about Jul. 13, 2009: Georgia Council On Economic Education Shows Our Kids Are Smarter Than Critics