If you haven’t heard, the owner of Whole Foods, John Mackey, just wrote an editorial for the Wall St. Journal that essentially blames all of our health problems on diet and states that health care is not a human right. The bigotry exhibited is outstanding. Apparently if you have any illness then you [...]

So the 2nd leading story online at ajc.com last week was about a man having sex with his dog. This is a bad sign. Perhaps this is why the AJC has so few quality stories – nobody reads them. Another issue dominating the news is the Beer Summit with Obama, Gates, and [...]

On the heels of Atlanta’s inability to spend money comes a post about our nations inability to save. I.O.U.S.A is a recent documentary on the growing problem of the national debt. It’s well done and features some people I find interesting, notably Alan Greenspan and Warren Buffett. The national debt could certainly [...]

If you haven’t heard, Atlanta received a federal grant of about $100 million to aid the area a few years ago. Now the deadline for spending that money, the end of the year, is approaching and there is still $30 million left to be spent. At a meeting at City Hall last night [...]

So the Metro Atlanta Water issue got a couple articles in today’s AJC and has been getting significant press since the Minnesota judge decided to cut our water off from Lanier in three years if we don’t work something out to change the law in place. Quite a weird thought that the metro area [...]

Thomas Oliver manages to propose a relatively sane argument for more time to analyze the health care bill, but he uses it to cloak attacks on the stimulus, Medicare, Social Security, and even young people to a certain extent, although that may be warranted. He says, “The last time we were here… we passed [...]

This New York Times article talks about how the recently vanquished President Zelaya of Honduras started to re-enter the country from Nicaragua but thought twice as he was crossing the border. If you are unfamiliar with the situation, President Zelaya was overthrown and exiled from the country. This Washington Post article is a [...]

Jim Wooten has dialed in the quote machine this morning. My favorites…
“Global warming won’t kill us; terrorists will.”
“Which is more important – the F-22 or paid jobs among the non profits?…The Arts are important, sure…but the F-22 jobs, when abandoned, leave us less secure. The “stimulus” will funnel another $342,000 to Georgia’s arts [...]

Apparently Agra, Oil, Tobacco, and Pharma have a new addition to the Big Business/ Lobby team.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/07/21/cellphone-driving.html
A cell phone study revealing the dangers of driving while using the device was suppressed because congress did not want the agency to start lobbying. Great, so when we finally have useful topics that should be heard they [...]

The U.S. Census Bureau published the voter turnout statistics from the 2008 election today and it has been reported in many articles. The big news is that more older white people stayed home and more young black people showed up. Surprise surprise, but the real story is how ridiculously variable the statistics are. [...]