Sea Island Saga Continues
Previous installments featuring Sea Island, Georgia and the threat to develop a wildlife habit by plopping down eight McMansions on a fragile bit of ocean front can be found here and here and here and...
View ArticleThe Saga of the Sea Island Spit Continues
Yesterday, a goodly number of citizens turned out to hear from a legal person what our options are for calling the elected officials to account.What it boils down to is that 1) The Sea Island...
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Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the ABA
In August of 2006, Supreme Court Justice, Anthony M. Kennedy delivered the introductory address at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association, held that year in Hawaii. C-SPAN covered it, but...
View ArticleRiverkeeper Sues Rayonier
Frankly, I am somewhat abashed that I did not know the Riverkeeper movement had developed all over the south while I was languishing in New Hampshire. In any event, in this case it is the Altamaha...
View ArticleGeorgia Coast
From St. Simons to Sea Island, if it's not one thing it's the other. For, while the land speculators are busy trying to sell off lots on the Spit before the rising tides wash the dunes away, the Land...
View ArticleThe Unknown Known
Donald Rumsfeld defines the unknown known in the Errol Morris documentary as what he thought he knew but it turned out he did not. I've always considered the unknown known to be what Rumsfeld left out...
View ArticleThe Fred Astaire of the Sesame Street Generation
In looking to see whether I'd posted an essay with that title on Dailykos, I found that I hadn't, but the search engine brought up this from 2010, which is also still relevant.For example:Cook clearly...
View ArticleWorth Repeating
Kennedy's disquisition on the rule of law is worth repeating and not just because Justice Anthony Kennedy sits on the Supreme Court and is often the swing vote.It seems Kennedy is passionate about the...
View ArticleGA: Pierre Howard on the 'Spit'
If you don't remember who Pierre (pronounced pier) Howard is, let me re-introduce you. Elected Lt. Governor of Georgia in 1990, Howard served two terms and was on hand to introduce Bill Clinton and Al...
View ArticleThe Very Model of a Democratic Party
That's what we have in the Strafford County Democratic Committee in New Hampshire. That's what accounts for the county being a bastion of democrats in a sea of pink (New Hampshire Republicans are...
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History According to Hannah
Because the World of Kos still doesn't begin when people arrive here and because it is now about year eleven of this particular adventure, I want to review what I remember about the beginning.It all...
View ArticleMorning Money Meditation
All dollars come from the Federal Treasury and, having been issued in the name of the citizens of the U.S., belong to all of us.
View ArticleIs Schneiderman Running for Something?
Eric T. Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York, strikes me as someone who's got ambitions beyond his present venue.Every Sunday I can look forward to a newsletter in my mail box that covers,...
View ArticleThe History of Education in the South is Black.
Dr. Ron Butchart, of the University of Georgia, has documented that of some 11,700 school teachers active in the South after the Civil War, 4000 were missionaries from the North and mostly white, 5000...
View ArticleThe Spit Saga Continues
The Sea Island Acquisitions people still think that what they do with the property they claim to own is a matter of choice, as if ownership of land were the same as ownership of oneself. Never mind...
View ArticleGA: the Nunn Campaign
OK, there's something weird going on.First, let me admit that, as a Democrat, I'm fully supportive of Michelle Nunn seeking election to the U.S. Senate. Like any first hire, she's a crap shoot. But,...
View ArticleReport from Wilkes Barre
Since I pulled out of the drive at 4:38 AM, I've got farther than I intended. Also, since I never stopped in Wilkes Barre before, I thought I'd give them my business. Certainly didn't want to stop in...
View ArticleOn the extra sensory deficit, again
There are more than five senses and some people don't have them.Some people have no sense oftime order sequence direction circumstance environment connection
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GA: Jason Carter for Governor
Jason Carter tells us he's a fiscal conservative. I'm going to take that to mean "I don't waste money." Fully agree. Money is for spending -- to mediate a fair exchange. In that sense, money is an...
View Article"Inconvenient Truth"
Al Gore has not done us any favors in publicising that phrase. He's managed to turn both "inconvenience" and "truth" into dysphemisms, touting truth as a threat and inconvenience as deserved...
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