[Update: I wrote this review on 11/5, but I’m bumping this back to the top of the blog now that the film has been released.] Walter quit growing at about three feet tall. He’s a covered in fur. He has…
Month: November 2011
Nothing “unintended” in arrest of Mercedes executive in Alabama
Here’s the beginning of a piece from Bloomberg, Alabama Considers Revision of Immigration Law Ensnaring Mercedes Executive: On Nov. 16, a European businessman paying a visit to his company’s manufacturing plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was pulled over for driving a…
Newt talks sense — and humanity — on immigration policy
I’ve been extremely critical of Georgia’s state policies regarding illegal immigration, especially HB 87, which has apparently led to critical farm labor shortages in some areas — and which has uprooted hardworking, taxpaying families that have lived in the state…
On anniversary of JFK assassination, filmmaker Errol Morris considers the “umbrella man”
Why would anyone have an umbrella on a beautiful, cloudless day?
Why were frequent public appeals and media mentions unable to determine the man’s identity for more than a decade?
Georgia leads the nation in job loss over the past year
Periodically, after I have written about Georgia’s dismal employment picture, a reader asks something like this: “Well, we’re having the same problems that everyone else is having, right?” In the broadest sense that all states have faced difficult times in…
More on today’s City Talk column about migration in and out of Savannah and Chatham County
In today’s City Talk column — Where are migrants coming from? Where are they going? — I discuss some of the out- and in-migration trends along the Georgia coast according to this fascinating interactive map published by Forbes. As I…
Not from The Onion: Former Savannah State football coach running for President, considers himself “a long shot at best”
Did April 1st move to November 21st? Check out this piece from the Savannah Morning News: Robby Wells settles SSU lawsuit, says he’s running for president. Wells, who is white, alleged that he was fired from the historically black university…
The Supercommittee failed, now what?
If you’re reading this, I suppose I don’t need to waste any time giving background on the so-called Supercommittee that was supposed to come up with $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction. I’ve read lots of reactions about the failure, but…
Americans continuing to drive less: a sign of economic weakness or a paradigm shift?
This is one of the data points that I’ve been following more closely than others. While Americans continue to drive A LOT — approximately 2.22 trillion miles so far in 2011 — there has been a significant decline over the…
Will the transportation sales tax pass next year in coastal Georgia?
The 1% sales tax for transportation infrastructure will go before Georgia voters in 12 regional districts in 2012. The current plan has the vote being held at the same time as the primaries, which would in theory attract more Republican…
Updates from the inaugural Savannah Dance Festival, slated for October 2012
I can’t believe that it’s already been 5 months since I blogged about the the first annual Savannah Dance Festival, scheduled for October 18-20, 2012: The new Savannah Dance Festival and thinking big. I devoted an entire City Talk column…
Back in Savannah to honor Pin Point, Clarence Thomas finds praise — and raises more questions
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been one of the most controversial public figures of the last couple of decades. He has also been instrumental in the creation of a “heritage museum” in the small coastal Georgia community of Pin…
Recent NYT articles detail the effects of growing income disparity and stagnant wages
I’ve written a lot about increasing income disparity and wealth disparity in America. A consumer economy cannot thrive with such trends in place and worsening: with a larger and larger percentage of the population having little or no disposable income,…
SMN: Armstrong takes the lead in initiative to increase Latino percentage at local colleges
I’ve written before about Armstrong Atlantic State University’s dramatic changes over the last decade. See for example here and here. I started teaching part-time there in 2001 and am now a full-time instructor of English and occasionally journalism. There’s a…