My wife thinks I'm too hard on telephone solicitors. "They've got to make a living," she says. She objects that I let them go through their spiel, ask a lot of questions, decline the offer, then ask to speak to their supervisor to make certain everyone, including the persons listening to the recording made for training and verification purposes, understands I have declined the offer. I figure every moment I can delay the evil telephonic solicitation machine is a moment my fellow citizens are safe.
No matter the organization, I've always figured if they call my house selling or seeking donations, ...
Sunshine and seventy degree days arrived this week in the flat woods. The dogwoods burst with pure white blossoms and a thousand tiny bees, sprung from their still-cold hives, rattle the morning with a collective , near-startling , vibration as they welcome each new flower.
Winter, be gone!
It's interesting that Republican congressmen are so full of concerned advice to their Democratic colleagues about health care reform.
The GOP counsels that the voters won't like affordable and available insurance. The GOP advises their party apparatus will vigorously challenge any Democrat who votes for reform.
Does this mean that if a Democratic congressman votes "no" on health care reform that the RNCC will give him a bye in the next election?
Doubtful.
Waka Flocka Flame and the rest of Gucci Mane's crew thought Young Jeezy's posse dissed somebody at Walter's and all hell broke loose.
This is a certain sign that either Atlanta is nowhere to be or that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution can't tell its behind from a hole in the ground.
Late last week the AJC ran a breathless story about the showdown between competing hip-hoppers at Walter's Clothing. The story said shots were fired and the store, said to be the place to spot celebreties, had to close for 30 minutes.
The AJC reporter even phoned the police to get some facts. Not ...
The man had but one word - "Faith" - fixed on the church signboard as he perched near the top of his stepladder fumbling through a stack of plastic letters, looking for the remainder of the sentence.
As state legislatures reconvene, the annual search for a cause we can all believe in renews. One of the most likely subjects is Texting While Driving.
Opposing texting drivers is an ideal political position. Everybody is against it. Everyone knows someone who does it. It is widely believed that teenagers, evil offspring and non-voters that they are, are the most likely texting suspects.
Even those who admit texting while driving know, in their hearts, that they are wrong. that the practice is dangerous, and that they need to stop.
But Piney Woods Pete happened upon a more insidious evil yesterday - texting while ...
There's been a lot of interest in the flat woods about the news coming out of the world climate meeting in Copenhagen.
Folks have varied opinions on global warming, icepack levels, and how many glaciers would have to melt to move the high water mark west of I-95, but most everyone agrees that Copenhagen makes the best snuff.
Boosted by a contingent lured from the nearby Georgia Farm Bureau Convention, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue led a small but enthusiastic group of boosters and state officials Monday to celebrate the official start of the long-anticipated and much-debated revitalization of Jekyll Island.
Jekyll Island Authority workers lowered a 16-foot palm tree into the sand at the future site of the Great Dunes Park as Perdue and a crew of dignitaries shoveled in ceremonial sand to demonstrate that, though the revitalization brings hopes for lots of visitors and revenue, Jekyll's environment will be central to the effort.
In his speech, Gov. Perdue emphasized that Jekyll ...
While running immediate past-Speaker of the Georgia House Glenn Richardson out of town on a rail, the tar and feathers-toting crowd is howling about the influence of money-wielding lobbyists on state government.
The Atlanta papers are reporting that Richardson received more than $50,000 in food and fun since he ascended to the speaker position in 2005. And he's not the only recipient of glad tidings from Georgia corporations and other special-interest groups.
In 2009, according to the State Ethics Commission (click http://ethics.georgia.gov/Reports/ReportSummary.aspx), lobbyists have dumped more than a million bucks entertaining state elected officials and bureaucrats.
It's like these clean-government people are opposed ...
Note to public speakers, especially television personalities: If you use the word "segue," meaning a smooth, uninterrupted transition, while attempting a segue, you have not accomplished a segue.
Privacy rules, well-intended though they may be, sometimes result in silliness.
My cousin, a lady of a certain age, flew to Atlanta from San Francisco for my daughter's wedding. Back in the day Betty was well-travelled. She thought I'd meet her in the waiting area at her landing gate. That's how well-mannered folks used to greet incoming passengers.
She sat for an hour while I stood at the designated greeting area at the top of the escalators between the north and south baggage claim areas at Hartsfield-Jackson. Her San Francisco cell phone didn't mesh with the Georgia towers and our calls to ...
In preparation for the onslaught of Georgia-Florida football related partying this weekend, Jacksonville City officials are again setting up "Student Sideline Safety Zones" to provide sanctuary for those too drunk to remember where they parked.
According to a Florida Times Union story on Thursday, the safety zones - areas where police and other public safety officials will offer assistance and protection rather than immediate arrest for knee-walking drunks - are not just for students this year. All inebriates are welcome.
The safety zones originated to counter the perceived problem of drunks falling into bad company after the big game. Bad company at ...
Someone is always trying to drag you down, to tell you that you can't, you aren't, you're lacking, you're too this or too that.
Well, phooey on them.
I'm standing in the sporting goods aisle looking at aluminum baseball bats for no good reason other than that I recently re-discovered the old bat my brothers and I used for backyard games.
It's splintered and grey and has two tiny nails driven and crossed over to mark where you can't see the trademark anymore. We'd worn it off and one of us evidently thought the trademark needed to be designated and there was a ...
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