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LIFE GOES ON
“There is no reality except the one contained
within us. That is why so many people live such
an unreal life. They take the images outside them
for reality and never allow the world within to
assert itself." (Hermann Hesse)
Robert Frost, when asked what he had found
most interesting about life, responded, "It goes
on.” Somewhat in the same manner bending
the literal wit and will of the great master, life
in Athens goes on as well. Reading of the new
equitable distribution solution of granting HUD
funds to the seemingly needy has become more
tangled than Charlotte's web. Seemingly now
a Pythagorean formula must be exercised, and
solution achieved, to even be in the running for
the celebrated public funds which once fed the
vestibules of common organizations, oleading
nonprofit status and pledging to work for the
good of the poorer brethren.
The cow with the golden teats turned out to
be a bull, no one ever asked about offspring or
sequences of on-site mating rituals. It all went
hand in hand, between friends.
Only in the asking and prodding of manage
ment assessments and on higher-level officials
did the pressure to perform prove eminent do
main statutes have a relatively impressive punch
when applied correctively. Some call this domain
the public's right to know.
Nonetheless, the critical damage has already
been done as millions, possibly 15 to 20, have
already been written off and deposited in local
accounts; there will be no penalty for early with
drawal, consider it all a gift on behalf of those
living in abject poverty—they never knew the
money was to assist their living conditions, and
they never will. Once again, we have learned the
valuable lesson of repeated mistakes, that being
there are only two mistakes one can make in life.
The first is acting without thinking, and the sec
ond, thinking without acting.
Is it only in Athens-Clarke County we exceed
the limit of repeating both? How long will the
poor remain the forgotten?
Keith T. Johnson
Athens
A TERRIBLE IDEA
Do driving schools now incorporate special
multi-tasking instructions like: "cell phone and
pinky" versus "nine and three"? I'm seeing an
awful lot of that tearing through intersections
and racing down the highway. I resent the fact
Georgia law makes sure I have to absorb the
content of someone's (uninfringed) cell call while
they hurtle along in a two-ton flammable box. My
prediction is the law will change, but only when
a "popular" enough tragedy occurs. A politician
(a good one, popular) or a (well-liked) child must
be killed first, 'cause it seems here the parading
mice always await tragedy before admitting com
mon sense. It's a replacement for the crap idea
it was to let people smoke on planes. But cell
phone culture is "new," so this ignorant permis
sion to supposedly not infringe on people's free
doms and let them have full-out conversations
requiring them to release the wheel is allowed
to progress. It's a terrible idea. Most people are
terrible drivers, anyway! Is it too much to ask
that people pull off and park, or at least stop, to
have their conversations? I don't have kids, but
every time I see some beautiful little kid walk
ing near the screet where six out of 10 people
are racing by talking on cell phones (I counted),
I just think, It's a matter of time." Don't let
us continue this terrible idea. Like Yul Brynner
said: "Whatever you do—don't smoke. Just don't
smoke." Now how about we cut to the chase and
say as early as possible: "Whatever you do, just
don't drive and talk on cell phones. Just don't do
it." Just drive.
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