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Teen
sex and life in the suburbs: Lessons from a schoolbus . . .
By
STEPHEN WALLACE
Disturbing, yes.
But hardly surprising. Recent reports of a 14-year-old Massachusetts
middle school girl engaging in oral sex with a 16-year-old high school
boy differed only slightly from scores of similar tales told with increasing
regularity in cities and towns across the country. The setting (a schoolbus)
and the audience (classmates) make it especially unappealing but really
not that different. After all, it was not too long ago that news broke
of a senior class scavenger hunt proffering points for proof (videos
and such) of masturbation, oral sex and public intercourse.
My
big, fat Italian breakfast . . .
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
Here I sit in real
America. Because what could be more melting pot U.S.A. than a German
boy ordering a good ol' Southern plate of eggs and sausage in an Italian
diner from a Mexican waitress named Gabby? This is my breakfast at Johnny
Romano's Diner on Huddleston Road and welcome to it.
Senate
to act on health benefits plan
By MITCH SEABAUGH
The activity here
at the Capitol has definitely picked up. Committees have begun work
on legislation and [this] week we should see some significant bills
come to the Senate floor for debate.
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Tyrone's
Cannon writes from new home in Minn.
Hello, friends in
Fayette County. I am writing to you from Minnesota, as my employer shut
down Atlanta operations and gave us the option to relocate. While I
was happy to keep my job, I do miss our friends in Georgia.
Remembering
The Citizen's first managing editor . . .
I'm deeply saddened
to hear of [Managing Editor] Dave Hamrick's death [in March 2002], not
just because he was a great guy and a great editor, but because of the
loss to society of a man who didn't let his judgment be clouded as info-tainment
profitably supplants journalism across the globe.
Thanks
to all for successful Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast
On behalf of the
Kiwanis Club of Peachtree City I would like to take this opportunity
to thank all the hard-working volunteers and local businesses for making
our 11th Annual Pancake Saturday on Jan. 25 an outstanding success.
New attendance records were set and profits exceeded $13,000, also a
new record.
Mac
not right on Soc. Sec.
Mac [Collins]'s
remarks on Social Security, Medicare, etc., are just about enough to
drive me to a third-party candidate. Only a fool or a politician would
tell you he can protect old folks' benefits, give benefits to those
who are about to retire, and give young people investment options without
any new taxes or any new pain. How can people believe statements that
are so farfetched?
Seabaugh's
bill penalizes 40,000 working families
[State] Sen. [Mitch]
Seabaugh is offering up legislation that he says will "help get
more people health insurance." In reality, Sen. Seabaugh's legislation
is designed to put money back in the hands of insurance companies and
business owners at the expense of working families.
Forget
appeasement, bring on the state flag referendum
In a recent, overlong
letter to The Citizen concerning the state flag, the learned Mark D.
Linville explains the history of the symbol now known as the swastika
so that we who haven't spent as many years as he in the halls of academe
(he is a college professor) will understand how the swastika and the
Confederate battle flag have been similarly defiled and, thereby, gained
a new meaning to himself and others.
Flag
change another attempt at cultural genocide of South
Dr. Linville's article
is another attempt at cultural genocide of Southern people of Confederate
ancestry. It is an article that would make Engels, Stalin and Marx proud.
Its style is straight from the Communist Manifesto. It reeks of extreme
left-wing Northern socialism.
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