March 22, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Good morning! We are one day away from the GeorgiaPol Sine Die Road Show. Make plans to be at the Hudson Grille in Midtown tomorrow from 7 until 10 PM. Maybe I’ll even talk about Hamilton – perhaps you’ve heard of it?
- (Added at 7:45 AM) The Washington Post Peeps Diorama Contest is back! As always, the finalists are all timely, relevant, charming, and kind of sticky.
- The Economist – that unflappable, balanced, esteemed, and (in my opinion) extremely intelligent newspaper (don’t call it a magazine!) – released their latest global economic risk forecast. The top threat is a “hard landing” for China. Number 6 on the list is a Trump presidency. So.
- Related: the Washington Post has a four-part series on how we got to where we are in America right now.
- I am still laughing about the possibility of the RRS Boaty McBoatface. What did the British National Environmental Research Council think would happen when they opened this up to the internet?
- What’s even funnier is the poor British press officer (I assume that’s Brit-speak for PR flak?) is really sorry about ever suggesting the name.
- A Coweta County native made a film about Barbie Beach in Turin, and it’s going to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
- How her Irish-Catholic heritage influenced Flannery O’Connor (and this Irish-Catholic asks, how could it not?)
- The Houston County State Court clerk resigned last week.
- Macon’s getting a skate park!
- Some Cobb parents are concerned that classroom yoga will transform their children not into lithe, flexible, and calm students, but rather into godless heathens.
- The privilege of buying diapers.
- This week in Hamilton: what would the most Federalist of the Founding Fathers make of the Senate’s obstinate refusal to consider a Supreme Court nomination?
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Another ARMED robbery on Georgia’s gun free campuses …..
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/2-shot-near-georgia-state-university/nqqHX/
How’s that gun-free zone working out for yah?
Hamilton was a great American and probably would be disgusted that his Federalist beliefs turned into a corrupted bloated bureaucracy. He was an abolitionist but believed strongly in property rights, one who sought education, position and wealth and respected the industrious. Our history is not from purity but freedom and individualism.
Maybe we have reached a population point to focus on the things the Feds can manage and those bonding a league of states. A new Revolution.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/early-america-review/volume-15/hamilton-and-slavery/
Rather than talk of ending the embargo, Obama should demand that Cuba return US fugitives to this country; the bomber, the cop killer and other assorted criminals that currently reside in Cuba.
Fear not for what Obama will do for the business interests in America, fear for what he will do to the taxpayers in America.
Brussels airport/metro bombed, 31 dead. The offshoot of these issues may well have other consequences as the Brits are none too happy with the EU.
See items 4 and 5 on that Economist list.
Yes – Paul Johnson wrote the best observation on this I have read. The Feds in DC should take note.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/currentevents/2016/02/10/new-anglo-u-s-prospects/#53e6d873bc4a
RIP Rob Ford…the Canadian preview of what you get if you elect Trump (on a smaller scale minus the drugs). Rob Ford was more fun to watch and much less scary though…thoughts and prayers to his family.
OMG Renee Untermen just got trashed by Samantha Bee for blocking the rape kit bill. There was no mercy, and frankly Renee deserves the public shaming she is getting. That a WOMAN would block this bill is sickening.
https://youtu.be/UrxTrR5_8Zo