Couple of things

- Embrace the crazy John Oxendine.

- One of the important pieces of background in this story - though it really shouldn't be background since it was already approved by the Oconee County Board of Education - is that there was already a plan in place, as well as a funding mechanism, to build a field house, weight room, etc. for North Oconee High School. The problem, of course, is that none of these outraged parents actually pay attention to what's going on until something directly impacts them. Had they followed the news coming out of the BOE, they would have recognized that John Osborne was, by in large, just showboating.

- In all seriousness, I'm bummed. I have definitive memories of Dirty Dancing as a child, seeing how I had a host of cousins who absolutely loved that movie, and Roadhouse was a favorite of the Athens Banner-Herald sports staff during my days there. Plus, there's this.

- An oldie, but goodie as Gary Evans pens the guest editorial today.