December 2011
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Atlanta's 2011 Milestones: Freedom
In 2011, a minor consumer convenience masqueraded as triumph of freedom over tyranny.
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“Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil...”
– Texas governor and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry, speaking to supporters in Iowa Tuesday.
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Atlanta's 2011 Milestones: Health & Security
Who said there’s no such thing as a silver bullet?
Earlier this year, Georgia’s visionary political leaders did what seasoned political observers considered impossible - they solved two of the state’s most urgent chronic problems with the passage of a single law. HB 87 didn’t simply secure Georgia’s porous border with Mexico, it helped the estimated 6 million state...
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Atlanta's 2011 Milestones: Culture
2011 is the first year the number of recordings rapper Waka Flocka Flame made exceeded the number of shooting incidents he was involved in.
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“When he didn’t like somebody or something that was going on, he would pick...”
– A sentence I was saving for my own obituary appeared today in CNN’s obituary of Cheetah the chimpanzee, who starred in several Tarzan movies in the 1930s. Cheetah was 80.
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“We always have to be careful to not always offer cheesy, chickeny things and...”
– http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204466004577102464033301888.html
WCA Ep. 21 - Give v Receive →
Audio of my Write Club performance from last week. Note to all: My reading contains occasional foul language, harsh criticism of several passages of the Old Testament, and an irreverent (but ultimately supportive) reading of part of the New Testament. If that sort of thing bugs you, then this will bug you
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Newt in URL hell →
Type www.NewtGingrich.com into your browser and let the fun begin!
How well do you know Atlanta? Tell me where the...
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A very special Don't Panic art retrospective →
All this North Korea talk reminds me I used to write and draw about it for a living.
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“Nobody who writes about politics for decades will be entirely free of serious...”
– Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon about the whitewashing of Christopher Hitchens’ lustful, relentless wrongness about the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Jitterbug phones retweeted me
RT @andishehnouraee: They need to make an iPhone that’s just a phone. I don’t need all that other stuff. #NewAndyRooney @jitterbugphones
— Jitterbug Phone (@jitterbugphones) December 14, 2011
“Newt promises that, after a couple decades of well-documented serial adultery,...”
– Newt vows to rescue marriage from pesky gays
“Newt is brilliant. He has a deep understanding of many technologies, but more...”
– Catching up with the Newt “Comeback Kid” Gingrich
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“Crimson Hexagon, a social media analytics firm, did some Twitter sentiment...”
– Another one they never mentioned at career day: “Twitter sentiment analysis.”
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“[T]he race for the GOP nomination increasingly looks like it’s down to...”
– From Eye On Newt, my new collaboration with Atlanta magazine. Cain Watch is dead.
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“If we had healthy institutions, the White House, both parties in Congress, the...”
– “Foreclosed Futures” by George Packer. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2011/12/foreclosed-futures.html#ixzz1frHFMREM
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“The annual Atlanta Press Club Holiday Author Party happens tonight, Mon., Dec....”
– I’ll never win a Pulitzer, but my name is in the same sentence. Not a bad consolation prize. http://clatl.com/culturesurfing/archives/2011/12/05/atl-bookmarks-the-passion-of-the-good-man
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“A creek in southwest Atlanta — which for years has turned various colors of the...”
– Thomas Wheatley, Creative Loafing, on the Perkerson Park creek spill I posted a photo of on Saturday. Thank you, Thomas, for caring about important-but-unglamourous things like this.
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“I don’t know if the Gingrich surge is going to last, but credit where...”
– Into the Eye of Newt
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