2010 Columns

Pay attention, teachers. The two main gubernatorial candidates, Democrat Roy Barnes and Republican Nathan Deal, are trying to make nice with you. At least until they get themselves elected. Then all bets are off. Roy Barnes says he is going to provide you with salary increases, smaller class sizes and a ban on furloughs. He also wants to bring two teachers into the … [Read more...] about September 13, 2010: Political Rhetoric No Reason For Teachers To Get Their Hopes Up

In all the hubbub over the construction of a mosque at Ground Zero in New York City as a reciprocal gesture of friendship to Muslims who have agreed to build the Ali Khamenei Baptist Tabernacle in downtown Tehran, you may have missed the latest debate between Georgia’s gubernatorial candidates sponsored by the Yarbrough Worldwide Media and Pest Control Company, located in a … [Read more...] about September 6, 2010: There Is No Debate That This Was A Great Debate

You can take the boy out of Georgia, but you can’t keep him from swelling with pride while he’s gone. On a recent visit to Michigan and Canada in search of igloos and reindeer, we dropped by Henry Ford’s home in Dearborn. As you know, Henry Ford invented the Model T and created the Ford Motor Company which didn’t need our tax dollars to bail them out for poor management like … [Read more...] about August 30, 2010: Be It Ever So Humble, There’s No Place Like Georgia

If you find any dead squirrels in my backyard, it is because they have laughed themselves to death. It isn’t that I haven’t tried to wing one with my trusty Red Ryder pump-action BB gun with the camouflage stock.  It is just that the rascals know I couldn’t hit a buffalo in the backside at five paces.  I have even had them – the squirrels, not the buffalo – make faces at me as … [Read more...] about August 23, 2010: Don’t Feel Sorry For The Squirrels In My Backyard

“Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December, But the days grow short when you reach September.” — September Song Congratulations, dear reader. Silly Season, aka, the 2010 political campaign, is nearing the end. Most of the wannabes have been shunted aside and we are in the short days of the campaign. On Nov. 2, it will all be over. Can December come soon enough? Georgia … [Read more...] about August 16, 2010: Thankfully, The Days Grow Short On Political Campaigns