If you like the ignorant, fundie-run Gwinnett Daily Post

[bunkerbuster1]

please do not read this blog.

http://hillbillyragger.blogspot.com/

thank you.

[Iris]

1. good stuff. Thanks for the post!

[bunkerbuster1]

2. I'm wondering if the Post's staff will find this on their own

or if they'll need to be led to it.

Something tells me the former's gonna be the case.

[CottonBear]

3. Brilliant! Bookmarked! Thanks! n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

6. Thanks. I wasn't shooting for "brilliant"

more like good, clean, stupid fun at the clueless dolts' expense, but I'll take the compliment where I can get it. Glad ya liked it, there's more where that came from. So long as the Gwinnett Daily Post goes on being moronic, I'll be on 'em like ugly on a monkey.

BTW, I hope I don't offend anyone with the blog's title--yeah, I call the paper the "hillbilly rag," but I'm the hillbilly ragger. Hillbillies can be cool; Jed Clampett knew a thing or two, after all.

[CottonBear]

7. Oh cool! I didn't realize that the hillbilly ragger is you!

I didn't look at the link in your sig line. Doh.

I live in the blue island that is Athens-Clarke County.

I have two Republican friends (A Mass. born Jewish Republican woman and her Irish-American Mass. born husband :( :wtf: I thought that people from Mass. were liberals. ) who live in Lilburn.

My stepdaughter lives in Duluth, home of Ralph Reed and the Runaway Bride. :scared:

Gwinnett County is becoming more diverse as the original suburbs and multi-faily housing age. Still, it is populated by some of the whites, most conservative people I know.

[bunkerbuster1]

8. What's amazing is how the Hillbilly Rag's editorial page

...thinks it's eternally 1950-something, demographics- and political-ideology wise.

Yes, Bush won a majority of votes, but in the Post's mindset, it's like NOBODY voted for Kerry. Whereas something like close to 100,000 Gwinnettians did. As you say, it's becoming much more diverse.

Yet if they've ever run so much as a single editorial in that paper from a progressive view, I've missed it.

[CottonBear]

9. I grew up in Chattanooga when it was a two newspaper town.

The two papers are combined now and each have an editorial page.

My John Birch Society dad hated the Chattanooga Times, which was the morning paper, because it was "liberal."

The News-Free Press (Ironically, the hyphen was used incorrectly to combine the name of two papers. The hyphen indicated the paper was free of news, which it was!) was the conservative paper. It specialized in grip and grin society photos and always included bible verses in the editorials. The best part though, was that they always called communists "the reds."
:lol: They still do this crap.

The Athens-Banner Herald is not much better although they do run columns by liberals like Molly Ivins and our very own radical, liberal Athens writer, Ed Tant.

I suggest reading the Flagpole online. It is Athens' alternative weekly paper published by long time Athens newsman, Phil McCommons.
http://www.flagpole.com/

[bunkerbuster1]

10. Reds? ha. Any of these papers put quotes around the word "Gay?"

a la WingnutDeli or NutsMax?

thanks for the flagpole link; i did know know of them. only visited Athens once since moving down here, but have been meaning to get back there.

[CottonBear]

11. You're welcome. There are several Athens area DUers

but I have yet to meet them. Perhaps an Athens meetup would be in order sometime. ZWe could meet up at the Globe (Athens best bar: sort of a literary, boho bar with no light beer served: only high quality beers, unusual imports, good wines and rare whiskeys!) The Atlanta meetups are usually at Manuels and are harder for me to get to.

Flagpole is great. Pete McCommons used to publish the Athens Observer which was Athens first liberal weekly paper. I miss that paper. Alas, it is no more.

[Lothar]

12. ABH? Bah

The Athens Banner-Herald is a Morris company paper, which doesn't boast the most progressive of publications, to say the least. They also own the Augusta Chronicle...ewww.

The Globe is known as the grad student bar, but you've got a good many non-students who hang for the non-undergrad social atmosphere. Then again I've been a grad student here for 5+ years, and I've been to the Globe maybe a dozen times, but I'm not much of a bar person anyway. I prefer to sip my brew/grapes at parties with gatherings of good friends, but The Globe does have a decent selection.

[CottonBear]

13. Do you remember the original Athens Observer?

Pete McCommons founded it. What a great paper it was. Alas, it was eventually bought by Republican businessmen who ran it into the ground. Pete eventually took over the Flagpole.

I've been in Athens since 1981. How long have you been here? Much has changed but much has remained the same as well. I miss the old Friends bar in the Georgian Hotel. It is no longer. :(

[3waygeek]

4. I get the GDP free

as part of my cable service. I've never even bothered to take it out of the plastic bag; it goes straight into the recycling bin. Good to know I made the right choice.

[bunkerbuster1]

5. And it's worth EVERY PENNY!

yeah, I used that lame line in an LTE to them once. go figure, they never printed it.

Do pick it up and read it now and then; you'll enjoy the blog a lot more that way.