The danger of chasing tail
By T. W. Burger Whenever I watch world leaders contemplating the use of power, I always want to tell them about my old tomcat. Tom could...
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Dec 23 min read
Requiem for Bernie
By T.W. Burger I didn't try to count the number of people in the church. It was a good-sized crowd. I wasn't there on assignment, but on...
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Nov 214 min read
At home on the cosmic camper
By T.W. Burger It had been a long walk in the muck, on legs that had spent too much time tucked under a computer table. And I will...
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Nov 173 min read
Time And a River
By Erik Hogan Time is such a strange concept. It is measured so very precisely and consistently. At one end of the spectrum we tally eons...
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Nov 142 min read
Thoughts on scratch'n sniff news
By T.W. Burger It is often true that we do not take full advantage of the technologies available to us. Nowhere is this more true than in...
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Nov 114 min read
A dose of culture at Joe's place
By T.W. Burger I would have loved to meet Joe Delaney. Finding Joe’s place was dumb luck, really. Most of my attention had been given to...
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Nov 93 min read
Nobody and the graveyard raid
By T.W. Burger It is not a very large cemetery, tucked away between the back end of a large brick church and a row of some houses that...
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Nov 96 min read
A Little Weird: Fare thee well, Geordie
By Eddie Whitlock You don’t know people very often. You know a little slice of a little facet of most of them. There are a few you get to...
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Oct 295 min read
A Little Weird: We are the monsters
By Eddie Whitlock We are the monsters. At least, that’s my goal. It’s that time of year. It’s my favorite time of year: Halloween. When...
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Oct 233 min read
Never met a stranger: Celebration of summer in a jar
By T.W. Burger I could not help but note that the man extracting honey from the combs in the Langsroth frames looked almost bearlike;...
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Oct 202 min read
Never Met a Stranger: Tattoos
By T. W. Burger Tattoos have probably been around nearly as long as we’ve had skin. I don’t have any particular problem with them, though...
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Oct 93 min read
We’re from Georgia AIM and we’re here to help
By Bill Crane In looking forward and embracing our future yet to come I often find benefit in looking back. One of my favorite quotes...
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Sep 303 min read
Shark teeth and weasels
By T. W. Burger Dan Stoneburner and I walked along the two tracks of what passed for a road on that barrier island off the coast of...
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Sep 253 min read
Is heading off Georgia’s election train wreck on Brad Raffensperger?
By Leon Galis The state of Georgia’s Election Board, which nobody outside the state and hardly anybody in it had ever heard of before...
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Sep 194 min read
Athens mayor and commission squandering taxpayer money with out-of-state retreat
By Michael H. McLendon Today when Athenians are pinching pennies to pay for groceries and their electric bills, our mayor and...
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Aug 293 min read
The Cellist of Sarajevo
By T.W. Burger We hear a lot about heroes in these days of endless wars. I’m afraid that we’ve had so much war in recent years that we...
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Aug 275 min read
You Know… Christmas, viruses, and a baseball bat
By T.W. Burger Sometimes, the best adventures come about when you’re busy doing something else. For example, some years ago, we got a...
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Classic City News
Aug 224 min read
Gun violence in Athens
By T.W. Burger One of the dangers of becoming a superannuated human being, i.e., an old guy, is that one finds oneself becoming...
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Aug 1715 min read
Faith, science and the imponderable
By T.W. Burger I had this thought long ago that I needed to figure out what I believed. Often in conversation or writing, I would find...
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Aug 81 min read
To debate or not to debate
By Robert B. Covi Donald Trump seems afraid to debate Kamala Harris. His “any time, any place” bravado has slipped into a petulant...
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