by Gary Reese | Apr 10, 2014 | Floating Boats
Say It Ain’t So, Hank A day after praising Hank Aaron, we have to shake our heads in disappointment. In a newspaper interview, the Hammer seemed to equate (all?) Republicans with the Ku Klux Klan. Aaron grew up in an era of horrid racial prejudice, and he got...
by Gary Reese | Apr 9, 2014 | Floating Boats
That Era is Going, Going, Gone! One could make a convincing statistical case that Henry Louis Aaron was the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That made it doubly poignant that Aaron was so genuinely moved Tuesday night when he was honored at Turner Field. It...
by Gary Reese | Apr 6, 2014 | Floating Boats
Gregory the Great The Roman Catholic archbishop of Atlanta has put to instructive use the Christian precept of admitting wrongdoing. He has taken recent criticism of him to heart and decided to sell his $2.2 million Buckhead mansion. We can understand the...
by Gary Reese | Apr 4, 2014 | News
All the Republican candidates for U.S. Senate are putting their money and their hard work into carving a political identity that distinguishes them from their opponents. Karen Handel maybe more than any of them already has an identity. Unfortunately for her, it’s...
by Gary Reese | Apr 3, 2014 | Floating Boats
Phone Home Fox-5 TV reports that on her first day on the job, Dekalb County 911 operator Crystal Morrow fielded a call that helped save her own father’s life. Her aunt was on the line and her dad had fallen into a diabetic coma. Both father and daughter...
