“I spent 90 percent of my money on women, drink, and fast cars. The rest I wasted.” — Irish-born soccer icon George Best Ah, St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah — […]
Editor’s Note
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Beautiful dreamers
Two lovely, bright and talented local women are up to great things this weekend. JinHi Soucy Rand and Grace Diaz Tootle, two of Savannah’s key figures in the performing arts, […]
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Hail to the Chief(s)
It’s been interesting listening to some of the reaction to President Obama’s upcoming visit here March 2. Much like the hysteria over his Sept. 2009 speech to public school classrooms […]
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Don’t Tase us, bro
Despite their instant pop culture notoriety from that YouTube video of the young man begging a University of Florida cop, ‘Don’t Tase me, bro,’ Tasers are really not such a […]
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Making — and keeping — history
As the nation’s thirteenth colony, Georgia has a lot of history to archive, protect, and brag about. The group most responsible for this job is the nonprofit Georgia Historical Society […]
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Gettin’ churched
Every now and then, just when I get sick of this silly town, I come across something utterly unique and special about it that gives me faith again. Fittingly, last […]
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We the Corporations
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini You witnessed a ritual killing last week, a public execution. […]
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Rushing to help
“You already give to Haitian relief – it’s called the income tax.” – Rush Limbaugh I’m usually sympathetic to the point of view that says charity begins at home. But […]
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Warming up to Pat Prokop
There’s one in every crowd: The comedian who says, “How can there be global warming when it’s so damn cold outside, ha-ha-ha.” Or perhaps the more direct Southern variation: “Global […]
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Possibilities
And so we begin a new year that is rife with possibility — and not without continued risk. As the national economy makes the first tentative moves toward a recovery, […]
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Never again in 2010
As anyone knows who’s seen me maniacally cleaning out my office any given December, I’m a strong believer in using the new year for new beginnings. So in that spirit […]
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Away in a manger – or a hydraulic shop
Eight years ago, I set up a CNN e-mail alert for “Osama Bin Laden.” It was to alert me when he’d been caught or killed, you see. The info in […]