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
2007 Columns
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
Sep 24, 2007: Cynthia McKinney Has Returned, And I’m Ecstatic
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY HAS RETURNED, AND I’M ECSTATIC The Lord works in mysterious ways. After enduring the unending righteous indignation of Al, a former television network correspondent, and Barney (not his real name) who is a “charter coordinator” of something or other (he won’t tell me) in the Atlanta area, I was about ready to insert bamboo splints under my fingernails and find … [Read more...] about Sep 24, 2007: Cynthia McKinney Has Returned, And I’m Ecstatic
Sep. 17, 2007: Governor Shares Lessons Learned From Athletics
GOVERNOR SHARES LESSONS LEARNED FROM ATHLETICS Watching Gov. Sonny Perdue on television at the Little League World Series, where his hometown Warner Robins team defeated Japan for the world championship, reminded me that he was a pretty good athlete in his day. How good? “I was small,” he said when I dropped by his office recently to ask him, “but I made up for that by being … [Read more...] about Sep. 17, 2007: Governor Shares Lessons Learned From Athletics