A thank you to an old friend and an ode to the importance of friendship.
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Editorial: This Ain’t No Thank Piece
Thanksgiving is only a couple of days away and I’m sure there will be a ton of “what I’m thankful for articles” populating newspapers and the Web in the next couple of days. If memory serves me, I’ve written a few of them myself over the years, so it’s a topic that – excuse the pun – is ripe for the picking.
This year, as we move toward a holiday that I, myself, have always favored, I’m not so sure there’s as much to be cheerful about.
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Editorial: Kyle Keyser and the Atlanta Mayoral race
I’ve been having an internal debate for some time now about how to approach commenting on the Atlanta mayoral election and specifically Kyle Keyser and his unlikely candidacy for the position. Talking about local politics on a site like this is akin to talking about religion on a first date, you just don’t do it unless your are ready to deal with the fall-out. Additionally, the vast majority of the readership of this site is outside of the state of Georgia, much less Atlanta. Would someone from New York or Los Angeles or London care about local Atlanta politics?
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Wikipedia’s McCarthyism
If you don’t know what McCarthyism is, look it up now. Done? If you didn’t know what it was, there’s a better-than-even chance that you used Wikipedia. It’s many people’s default Web site to get quick answers to their must-know questions. I, and many others, have a problem with Wikipedia. Like any open-source site, it [...]
