CHAMBLISS TALKS ABOUT PEACHCARE, WATER AND WARTS Sen. Saxby Chambliss called the other date to update me — and you — on a number of issues currently ricocheting around Washington, including continued federal funding for the State Children’s Insurance Program, known in Georgia as PeachCare. The program authorizes states to provide healthcare coverage to "targeted low-income … [Read more...] about Oct. 29, 2007: Chambliss Talks About Peachcare, Water And Warts
Oct. 22, 2007: Random Thoughts On Random Subjects
RANDOM THOUGHTS ON RANDOM SUBJECTS Lordy, I upset some Georgia Tech fans a couple of weeks ago by poking fun at their all-night Welcoming Event and Brand Alignment hootenanny on November 1. One reader told me that students no longer use slide rules at Tech, as I had implied. I suppose that means they’ve also given up the T-Squares they used to wear on their belts like … [Read more...] about Oct. 22, 2007: Random Thoughts On Random Subjects
Oct. 15, 2007: Say A Prayer For Little Abby Smith
SAY A PRAYER FOR LITTLE ABBY SMITH If you have tuned in to see who is going to get sledge-hammered this week, the answer is no one. Politicians of all types and persuasions are getting a pass. Hollywood draws a bye as well. You will find no barbs aimed at cat lovers, the blowhard City of Atlanta or airheads who insist on talking on their cell phones in the checkout line at … [Read more...] about Oct. 15, 2007: Say A Prayer For Little Abby Smith
Oct. 8, 2007: Get Ready To Rap At Tech’s “Welcoming Experience”
GET READY TO RAP AT TECH’S “WELCOMING EXPERIENCE” On Thursday evening, Nov. 1, Georgia Tech, my third favorite team in the whole wide world (UGA is first, anybody playing Tech is second, you can figure out the rest) meets Virginia Tech at Grant Field in Atlanta. To those of us unsophisticated in such matters, we would assume there was going to be a football game occurring that … [Read more...] about Oct. 8, 2007: Get Ready To Rap At Tech’s “Welcoming Experience”
Oct. 1, 2007: Reflections On Iraq Two Years Later
REFLECTIONS ON IRAQ TWO YEARS LATER It has been two years since my trip to Iraq to see the war through the eyes of Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team located in the aptly named “Triangle of Death”, south of Baghdad. The longer I am away, the scarier it seems. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat. Happily for them and their families, members of the 48th are back home and back … [Read more...] about Oct. 1, 2007: Reflections On Iraq Two Years Later