Monthly Archives: November 2011

The Law and “Justice” Are Often at Odds

Posted on November 24, 2011 by metrospirit

“Boy… you know what a Superior Court judge can do? Any damn thing he wants!” — Late Augusta Circuit Superior Court Chief Judge Franklin Pierce to a brand new assistant prosecutor on his very first day in court Before you…

Balls the Size of Churchbells

Posted on November 17, 2011 by metrospirit

Don’t get me wrong: I agree with much of Fred Russell’s “anti-Augusta government” soliloquy. In a job interview in Sarasota, Florida, our embattled city administrator said in so many words that the government suffers because of infighting, micromanagement and a lack of…

Where Is President Polk When You Need Him?

Posted on November 10, 2011 by metrospirit

The Mexican-American War came to an official end in 1848 with the signing of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo under the direction of U. S. President James K. Polk Unofficially, a state of war apparently still exists between many Mexican…

Incomplete Information Makes for a Bucket of Mud

Posted on November 3, 2011 by metrospirit

I have always enjoyed Augusta’s collection of Paranoid Peanut Gallery Pontificators, even back to the days of Ira Davis and Bernie Starsesky. Good men who, when it came to spewing on all things political and on all kinds of civic…