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
2009 Columns
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
Apr. 13, 2009: Random Thoughts On Politics, People And Portraits
RANDOM THOUGHTS ON POLITICS, PEOPLE AND PORTRAITS Kudos to Joe Mulholland, district attorney for the South Georgia Circuit, which includes Bainbridge, Camilla, and Cairo. After reading my suggestion that state government rather than schoolteachers take a furlough, the DA told me, “Some of us in government have already taken your argument to heart.” Mulholland says district … [Read more...] about Apr. 13, 2009: Random Thoughts On Politics, People And Portraits
Apr. 6, 2009: If Women Ruled The World, How Would I Know The Difference?
IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD, HOW WOULD I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? I heard that former Clinton White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers was coming to Atlanta to keynote a conference with an eye-glazing title: “Possible Woman Conference: Power, Promise and Possibilities,” to take place April 21 at the Georgia World Congress Center. The proposed subject of her talk intrigued me: “Why … [Read more...] about Apr. 6, 2009: If Women Ruled The World, How Would I Know The Difference?
Mar. 30, 2009: Could My Three Favorite Subjects Be Plotting Against Me?
COULD MY THREE FAVORITE SUBJECTS BE PLOTTING AGAINST ME? We are four months into the new year, and I have heard nary a public peep from President-for-Life Jimmy Carter, our Ambassador to Outer Space Cynthia McKinney or noted land baron Ted “Buffalo Boy” Turner. Churning out breathtaking prose week after week is hard enough without having this crowd go mute on me. Their loose … [Read more...] about Mar. 30, 2009: Could My Three Favorite Subjects Be Plotting Against Me?