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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

Perhaps you are not familiar with the World Happiness Report that ranks countries on how happy their citizens are.  The release of the 13th edition of the annual report this year coincided with March 20th, United Nations International Day of Happiness, which probably made a lot of people unhappy because they don’t like anything having to do with the U.N. Anyway, Finland has … [Read more...] about March 23, 2025: If We Can’t Be Happy, Can We Just Annex Finland?

Like the late baseball great Billy Martin used to say in the beer commercials, I feel strongly both ways. For me, it’s not about the beer.  It is about one-issue, my-way-or-the-highway groups on both ends of the political spectrum.  I have no patience with those who see only one side of an issue, whatever it may be.  Yet, they provide me so much column fodder that I don’t have … [Read more...] about March 9, 2025: Watching The Pendulum Swing Along The Political Spectrum

Don’t get your hopes up but a couple of bills have surfaced in the Legislature, addressing the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (insert oxymoron here) giving approval for Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals to mine a 584-acre tract of Trail Ridge, on the eastern flank of our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium oxide so that we never face the prospects of … [Read more...] about March 2, 2025: Legislators Propose Bills To Address Okefenokee Mining Controversy