Couple of things

- I give him a good dose of grief, but I have to say that Lee Becker's latest post on QuickTrip's application to develop at the Oconee Connector and Daniells Bridge Road is mighty interesting. Arguably, that corridor could use another gas station as the BP down by The Home Depot and another one tucked in an inconvenient location inside the Wal-Mart parking lot are the only ones that currently exist. So I'd be supportive of this, but the developers want to literally exempt themselves from every ounce of regulation and/or ordinance that Oconee County has put in place ... and that, of course, seems absurd.

- Despite nagging rumors to the contrary, Athens-Oconee CASA is still a committed member of the Athens Resource Center for the Homeless.

- Speaking of interesting takes, Blake's post on States McCarter is also really good.

- Rodney Carr pens a stupid letter that flies in the face of existing data, but let's leave that aside and focus on this line - 'In 1776, those engaged in what Pitts calls "conservative extremism" would have been called patriots. I'm proud to count myself as one.' Now, let's contrast Carr's argument with that of President Franklin Roosevelt who said '(The Republicans) see to it that a favored few are helped and hope that some of their prosperity will leak through, sift through, to labor, to the farmer, to the small business man. That theory belongs to the party of Toryism, and I had hoped that most of the Tories left this country in 1776.'

- If you haven't checked out the trailer yet, Facing Ali looks awesome.