Couple of things

- I still just fail to see how Oconee County won't experience increased micro-managing if the proposed restructuring of the local government goes through. The budget negotiations proved that as a good budget was seemingly rewritten on the back of a napkin during a commission meeting solely because the commissioners wanted to do something 'different' than what Oconee County Commission Chairman Melvin Davis did.

- A rather detailed analysis of the orgins of Jeffersonian Democracy, and what it means today. A really nice read.

- I had someone tell me yesterday afternoon that 'at least Stewart Cink, a nice guy and Georgia resident, won the British Open' ... and I say 'so what?' He's a Georgia Tech graduate, so that's strike one right there. Factor in that he snuck into a playoff when Tom Watson missed an eight-foot par putt on the 72nd hole, and you've got another guy who's going to be ultimately forgotten as the winner because history will focus on the story of the runner-up.

- I don't have the necessary expertise in the field of criminal justice to effectively wade into the debate regarding whether or not length of stay is a good way to deter future crime from juveniles, but ... reducing length of stay due to budgetary reasons is rather disturbing. Rather than be determined by whether or not it's a viable strategy, it's being broadly cut - like other statewise broad cuts to services - so we can meet a bottom line, all the while preserving the state Republicans' needs to pass preposterous and ineffective things like tax cuts on the capital gains.

- Georgia men's basketball players subtely throw Dennis Felton under the bus, which I find awesome.