Monthly Archives: February 2012

Plainly Behind

Posted on February 16, 2012 by metrospirit

State Rep. Lee Anderson makes no excuses for being a plainspoken man. In fact, he’s made something of a political career on it. But when the Grovetown Republican, who’s running for Georgia’s 12th District, answered a question about the Federal…

Show Your Work, Damnit!

Posted on February 9, 2012 by metrospirit

by Austin Rhodes It is time for me to apologize to virtually every math teacher I had from fifth grade on. These hard-working educators were the targets of untold tens of thousands of derogatory thoughts and comments that spewed daily…

Normal Republicans?

Posted on February 9, 2012 by metrospirit

More Like Us, and Them, than You Think This past Friday, during a Q & A in Fulton, Missouri, somehow-still-presidential-candidate Rick Santorum told a gay man (into a microphone, in front of halfway-sane people, no less) that “[marriage] is…

Get Along, Little Doggies…

Posted on February 9, 2012 by metrospirit

If you can manage to look a little deeper than the surface, the Tee Center parking deck saga is really a reflection on the state of the <<IT>>Augusta Chronicle<<IT>>. Without the daily laying down cover fire, even allies have been…

F&B Update

Posted on February 9, 2012 by metrospirit

In the next few weeks, a new Gary’s Hamburgers will be opening on Wheeler Road in the former Backyard Burgers locale. It will be interesting to see how the restaurant fares, especially since the only drive-thru in the area is…

Over the Hedge

Posted on February 9, 2012 by metrospirit

Word is there will be four Allens on the ballot in Columbia County in the upcoming elections. Three are related, and one is debated. It’s going to be interesting at the commission level. Challenger Butch Holley may benefit from Charles…

Brigham Invited to Audit His Own Body

Posted on February 9, 2012 by metrospirit

Even though Jerry Brigham was very clearly against the idea of a forensic audit, his opposition doesn’t seem to have kept him from the opportunity to make some money off of it. Brigham, an accountant, received a letter dated February…

Opening the Door to Evil

Posted on February 2, 2012 by metrospirit

by Austin Rhodes According to pop culture mythology, the safest place to hide from a vampire is in your own home. The mystic rules dictate that the bloodsucker cannot enter the domicile of an intended victim without their expressed and…

Free Verse

Posted on February 2, 2012 by metrospirit

I’m writing this column under threat of great peril, as self-identification of oneself as “poet” ranks third on the list of Offences Punishable by Groin Shot, just under “wearing an American flag necktie” and doing anything “ironically.” It’s like saying…

The Worlds Longest Whine

Posted on February 2, 2012 by metrospirit

Usually, when the Metro Spirit receive diatribe of this length, we print it as a letter to the editor. When something arrives anonymously via fax with the sender’s number erased from the pages, however, you know you have something special.…