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Fighting For Minds In Second Life
Whether a political campaign operates out of a virtual headquarters on the Internet or from a repurposed storefront in suburbia, the contested territory is the same. In either case, your opinion is desired and your favor is courted, because every free election has been and will always be a fight for your mind. And this…
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Tending Sheep And Herding Goats
Thanks, Lynn. Thanks so much for stepping out and doing your part to set national perceptions of our fair state back another fifteen or twenty years. Oh, you didn’t hear? This is what Mr. Westmoreland, R-GA (8th District), said this morning during his alloted five minutes of resolution commentary: This is a global war on…
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Presidential Fantasy Cabinet: Commerce
The United States Secretary of Commerce heads up the U. S. Department of Commerce. This Secretary is charged with overseeing business and industry. The mission of the department is much broader than it appears, as it also includes the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Census Bureau,…
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Presidential Fantasy Cabinet: Agriculture
(Furniture? No. This is politics. Check out the previous entry for context.) The United States Secretary of Agriculture heads up the U. S. Department of Agriculture. This Secretary is charged with overseeing land and food as well as agriculture and rural development. This includes farm loans, conservation programs, crop insurance and so forth. The Secretary…
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Let’s Get Ready For Some … Cabinet?
It is lonely at the top. Fortunately, our Constitution ensures that the President of the United States will always have company. In Article Two, we find the following: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into…
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Sonny Said
This week, Governor Sonny Perdue appeared before the Georgia Assembly and delivered his 2007 State of the State. But what is the state of our state? Let’s read along and learn together, shall we? To understand the State of the State, we must not simply look at Georgia as a snapshot. Georgia is a changing,…
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A Reading Assignment
First, think of the Religious Right in America. Second, consider this list of peculiar features from Umberto Eco, author of The Name of The Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. Reflect on the first instruction in light of this second instruction. Third, read an excerpt from the first chapter of a new book by Chris Hedges, author…
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Bicentennial Man
I guess I was a Nixon baby. Admittedly, I don’t remember ever seeing President Nixon on the television or in the newspaper, but as he was out of office before I was two and a half years old, I’m not going to worry. Probably for the best that I don’t recall. The last thing any…
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Tin Roof, Revisited
Wow. Somebody else noticed my post from last week, the one about Ye Olde Love Shackke of Johns Creek. The very man himself. Mr Cornetta left a comment, too. A lengthy one, including a quote from a Supreme Court Justice. Cornetta’s also stated his position at one of the numerous AJC blogs. The other responses…
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Tin Roof, Busted.
Sorry. Cheap reference. But I felt compelled … It would appear that a feared spectre of wickedness has been shooed away from our newly-established city of Johns Creek. Barring an unlikely stay from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Fulton County’s Finest will descend upon the Love Shack at the corner of Jones Bridge and…