RADIO ‘TALKMASTER’ BOORTZ IS JUST THAT: ALL TALK This is the column I always wanted to write about the commencement speech that radio talk show yakker Neal Boortz always wanted to give. You remember Boortz, don’t you? He is the guy who loves to jump on “pitiful government schools.” Evidently, he has always wanted to rant and rave at a bunch of college graduates and faculty … [Read more...] about May 18, 2009: Radio ‘Talkmaster’ Boortz Is Just That: All Talk
May 11, 2009: I Warned You: Dr. Gil Can Pray Up A Storm
I WARNED YOU: DR. GIL CAN PRAY UP A STORM My hair is wet. My socks are mildewed. My joints ache. There is a torrent of water running down the street, and more rain is on the way. Drought? What drought? I hate to say I told you so, but well — I told you so. Remember when Gov. Sonny Perdue had a prayer session at the state capitol in November 2007, at the height of the drought? … [Read more...] about May 11, 2009: I Warned You: Dr. Gil Can Pray Up A Storm
May 4, 2009: I Have Seen The Future, And I Like What I See
I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE, AND I LIKE WHAT I SEE After too long an absence, I finally returned to sacred ground at the University of Georgia. For all my babbling about my love for UGA, I have not felt welcomed there for several years. President Michael Adams seems to view me as just short of radioactive, and a journalism professor acted like a petulant two-year-old in front of my … [Read more...] about May 4, 2009: I Have Seen The Future, And I Like What I See
Apr. 27, 2009: Looking Back, Everybody Got What They Deserved From The Olympic Games
LOOKING BACK, EVERYBODY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED FROM THE OLYMPIC GAMES I was at the Masters a few weeks ago and had to giggle. (Well, not giggle. I don’t think giggling is allowed at Augusta National. But I was smiling.) As I strolled amid the azaleas and pines and watched magnificent golf being played on a spectacular course, my mind returned to a time 15 years earlier when … [Read more...] about Apr. 27, 2009: Looking Back, Everybody Got What They Deserved From The Olympic Games
Apr. 20, 2009: I Wish Zell Miller Would Come Back And Straighten Things Out
I WISH ZELL MILLER WOULD COME BACK AND STRAIGHTEN THINGS OUT I miss the heck out of Zell Miller. I wish he would come back and straighten out the mess under the Gold Dome. And he could, too. His detractors — mostly liberal weenies, these days — go apoplectic at the mention of his name. (That isn’t particularly noteworthy; liberal weenies go apoplectic at the mention of my … [Read more...] about Apr. 20, 2009: I Wish Zell Miller Would Come Back And Straighten Things Out