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A Dear John(s Creek) Letter
Woke up this morning, fixed breakfast for my wife, kissed her goodbye and took a shower. This is my normal routine. Nothing special, though I do fix a mean bowl of oatmeal. The house phone rang just as a I stepped out of the shower. I know this is my wife, calling en route to…
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Fred Thompson Is Not The Messiah
He’s not the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan, either. He’s just a guy — a lobbyist-turned-Senator-turned-actor. That’s it. Yesterday, I left a comment on this very subject on Peach Pundit, but in light of today’s news, it bears repeating. Thompson’s going to run. Of course, he is. For a short while, I thought that he…
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Memory Loss Can Be Funny
Contrary to recent controversy, it really can be. See? (Found first on MetaChat.)
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They Live Among Us
Surprise #1. I’m reading an AJC article. At all. And not just because our local has picked up the latest Mei Lan news off the almighty AP wire … Surprise #2. This article is actually interesting. Maybe a bit encouraging. It turns out that our patch of suburbia is not drenched in red as deeply…
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Hippies Made To Order
This is going to hurt. Our petals wilted when we read the descriptions of some of our buds who participated in the Inman Park parade. Yes. And I died inside — just a little, you see — when I attempted to read today’s so-called response to Mary Grabar’s own mewling op-ed piece about finding unsightly…
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A Reverse Baptism of Censorship
I’m going to post this ridiculousness without comment. “On Thursday night, monologist Mike Daisey was performing his well-reviewed solo show, Invincible Summer, in a 300-seat second-stage space at American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., when about 80 members of a group got up and walked out. On their way out, one of the people walked…
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Wrong And Wrong
This afternoon, I cursed my car stereo. I heard our President’s remarks at the Virginia Tech convocation, and cursed in disbelief. In a democracy, the offering of condolence is an accepted part of a statesman’s job. Just as there are ribbon cuttings, ground breakings, and state dinners, there will be times of shared hurt with…
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Colbert: Comic Justice
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Putting Words In Captain America’s Mouth
In Marvel’s Civil War limited series, a major catastrophe split the hero community in half. One side, led by industrialist Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) fell in line with a government-sponsored superhuman registration act. The other side, led by WWII-veteran and super-patriot Steve Rogers (aka Captain America), resisted the movement on principle. In the end,…
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Barack Obama, Time Lord?
(Upon reflection, this post’s title is ridiculous to the point of inanity, but it sounds so cool besides that I can’t bring myself to change it.) First, watch a portion of Barack Obama’s stupendous Sunday morning speech/sermon at Brown AME in Selma, Alabama. The whole speech is about forty minutes long (we watched a repeat…