2025 Columns

I am not a happy camper at the moment and I am sorely afraid you are going to be disappointed in me.  There is no question that I have enormous influence in the industry and can make or break political careers with just a strategically-placed pronoun or the well-aimed interjection of a prepositional determiner. So why is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth not including me on … [Read more...] about April 27, 2025: Waiting To Be Included On Defense Secretary’s Next Chat

I just ran across something called the Teen Happiness Index, published by Mission Prep (missionprephealthcare.com.), an organization that deals with adolescents and families with mental health struggles. The study surveyed 3,012 parents across the country and asked this question: “On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy is your teen?” In Georgia, the answer was that our teenagers are … [Read more...] about April 20, 2025: Why Are Georgia’s Teenagers So Unhappy?

Well now, don’t that just beat all. A new study from Answering Service Care reveals that the Southern accent is officially the friendliest in the U.S.  A third generation family-owned business, Answering Service Care has been serving organizations in every industry ranging from banks to attorneys to funeral homes and a lot in between since 1974.  I tell you all this to say they … [Read more...] about April 13, 2025: Putting The Accent On How We Talk In The South

Our intrepid public servants must think we are a bunch of imbeciles. (And they may be right since we are the ones who elect them.) But if the recent episode of mistakenly inviting a reporter to listen in on a group chat of senior US officials on Signal — an unclassified, nongovernment platform that is vulnerable to foreign hackers — discussing battle plans to strike Houthi … [Read more...] about April 6, 2025: Some Random Thoughts On Some Random Subjects

Nada. Nil. Zip. Zero.  So went the discussions in the just-concluded session of the Legislature regarding the possible permitting by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (and, yes, continue to insert oxymoron here until further notice) to drag mine Trail Ridge, at the edge of our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, for titanium dioxide in order that We the People … [Read more...] about March 30, 2025: Legislature Passed The Buck Again On Our Okefenokee