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In case you haven’t noticed, this is National Newspaper Week.  The theme this year is “Journalism Matters.”  Yes, it does.  I wouldn’t be doing this if I thought otherwise. You will read a lot of things in this paper but not “fake news.”  You can’t get away with that kind of stuff locally.  You will catch us at the grocery store or gas station or a … [Read more...] about October 8, 2018: National Newspaper Week Reminds Us That Journalism Matters

You want to talk about heroes?  They are not a bunch of irrelevant overpaid knee jerk professional athletes who don’t like their country and do little to improve it, just criticize it.  Twenty years from now, they will likely be jelly-brained from banging into each other and drooling their oatmeal.  It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of … [Read more...] about October 1, 2018: Georgia’s National Guard Members Are True Heroes

Well, public schoolteachers, they are at it again.  “They” are our intrepid public servants under the Gold Dome, who siphoned $100 million out of the state budget for tax credits so parents can avoid sending their kids to public schools in Georgia. In their inimitable wisdom, they have decided public school are the pits – or as our esteemed Secretary of Education in … [Read more...] about September 24, 2018: Does Anybody Care What Georgia’s Schoolteachers Think?

Occasionally, I will drop in a comma where it doesn’t belong or fail to associate phrase modifiers with the nearest preceding noun and other stuff like that to see if you are paying attention.  Trust me, I do this on purpose.  I happen to be an expert on the subject (or is it predicate?  I can’t remember which) of the proper use of the English language. Many of … [Read more...] about September 17, 2018: A Treatise on The Art Of Being A Southerner