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?