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Them Dogs! Larry Munson replaced his epitaph Saturday in
Knoxville from "Run Lindsay, Run!" to "Good God Almighty!" in
managing to squawk out the news that Georgia had done it.
Anybody who saw it could easily accept the apology he offered after
the game. Have Georgia fans ever gone from the depths to the
heights so quickly? (In case you were at the Laundromat, a last-
minute touchdown put Tennessee ahead of Georgia, and then a last-
five-seconds pass put the Dogs back on top 26-24 for a victory that
will live forever in the hearts of fans who don't call "Rocky Top"
dance music.) ^
Those Bombs! What can you say? We're at war with
Afghanistan.* Here's hoping our young men and women stay out of
harm's way and that they don't harm innocent young men and
women on the streets of Kabul, Kandahar, Jaladabad, Mazar-e
Sharif, etc. Here's also hoping that our administration is correct in
its stated strategy that bombing Afghanistan will advance the war
against terrorism. All of this remains to be seen, of course.
Intelligence is the key to rooting out terrorism, and our intelligence
has looked pretty weak. If the bombing helps get rid of the Taliban,
information-gathering in Afghanistan should be easier, but as Sec.
Rumsfeld says, that's just a start.
That Commission! Tuesday evening, Oct. 2, as so often happens
when citizens come for a burning issue—greenspace, hospital
encroachment into neighborhoods, zoning issues—most of the
Commissioners sat stone silent,
as if it were beneath their dig
nity to respond to mere citizens.
Commissioner Banow spoke for
his own motion for a moratorium
on new construction and an
assessment of housing needs.
McCarter and Jordan briefly
explained to Garden Springs
mobile home park residents that
while they felt their pain, they
didn't think a moratorium would help anything, and Sheats called
on Commission staff to do something about affordable housing.
Sims was presidig in the absence of the Mayor. The others -
Chasteen, Kilpatrick, Carter, Logan and Ford - just sat there as if
they resented having to miss "Buffy The Vampire Slayer."
Now, it's true that this particular evening most of the
Commissioners were furious at Commissioner Barrow for forcing this
issue in front of them when it had no chance of passage. Even to
address the issue, apparently, would be to lend credence to Barrow's
grandstanding.
The people from Garden Springs knew nothing of these internal
politics, of course. All they saw was a Commission "behind the rail"
sitting aloof at elevated desks not even deigning to look at them.
The Commissioners, it's true, do not face the audience or its
speakers. They sit facing across the room, looking at each other
rather than at the public. It is very easy for our elected representa
tives to avoid making dye contact with their constituents. In fact,
they have to make some effort to swivel around and kind of eyeball
the public obliquely, wnen they want to. Otherwise, they can just
stare straight ahead, seemingly ignoring the people.
Citizens whose homes are at stake ought to get some kind of
reaction from their elected reps, even if it's a kindly, "We're sorry
you are losing your homes, but you see we detest John Barrow for
trying to do something about it, so we'll vote against him."
Anything but sit silently by, ignoring citizens' pleas.
Barrow is unrepentant and unforgiving even of those who spoke
in sympathy with the Garden Springs residents but voted against his
moratorium. If McCarter and Jordan had voted with Barrow and
Sheats for the moratorium, the 5-4 vote would have looked a lot
better than 7-2 and might have led to some other solution down
the road, when the Mayor is back and Sims has to vote on afford
able housing. Indications are, though, with Barrow continuing to
lash out at McCarter and Jordan, that next time around there will be
even more Commissioners pissed off at Barrow.
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but it can't exceed 500 words, must be in by the deadline and must
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112 S. Foundry St., Athens, GA 30601 or bring it by to the same
address or email it to editor@flagpole.com or fax it to 548-8981.
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