Anybody who has been around youth sports (especially rec level with volunteer coaching) surely ought to be able to read this story with at least a couple of possibilities in mind.

1) Coach makes a quick quip in jest, kids suddenly take it way further than he would have imagined in a million years. He then apologizes to the mother - not for anything he did explicitly wrong but for failing to anticipate the rash actions of the attackers.

2) Coach had incredibly horrible judgment & knew exactly what was going to happen (except for the victim having an apparently serious reaction to it). He then apologizes to the mother trying to save his own butt.

Both seem perfectly plausible to me. An investigation to determine where along the spectrum this fell seems wise to me, neither ignoring it nor a lynch mob seems particularly rational.

@grove600: I know it's Monday & my threshold for comedy is probably lower than usual but, well, I actually LOL'ed there.

Imagine that, someone in the education cabal complaining about accountability.

In other shocking news, water is wet.

Of all people, it would have to be the one for whom campaign signs were placed illegally in the Timothy Rd right -of-way. I'm sure he's a crackerjack of a guy, what with the obvious respect for very simple laws & all.

On the bright side, at least I know going into his tenure that he'll have a lot of work to do to fall short of my extremely low expectations.

"Jumps", as in go jump, is exactly what I wish Handel would do.

Her last bid for office failed because she was exposed as a pseudo-con, pity she wasn't permanently relegated to the dustbin of history after that.

@youdawgyou: I just didn't want to give them the free publicity. Lord only knows they've stolen enough of it already.

edit to add: But it's the only candidate that's from Athens

I'm not sure who should be party chair but I'm sure who shouldn't ... the horse's backside who decided to stick his campaign signs in the right-of-way along Timothy Rd this morning.

Not to mention the horrifying prospect of mimes, who could easily sue for their right to unrestricted & unsupervised access.

If MARTA fails to act here they simply open the door to having 42 would-be rappers begging for change every time a train pulls into the station.

Of course they backed a spending increase & a tax increase.

As worse-than-worthless a collection of politicians as has ever been assembled in one place.

"It’s not overly spiritual or religious"

One of the most ... interesting quotes I think I've ever seen about a church.

It's obviously been success in some ways, maybe it'll start a new trend in advertising. Doctors & hospitals would probably see a booming business with a slogan like "We're not really all that into the whole medicine thing."

Maybe a few months of steady raids would drive away these commonest of criminals.

@2dollar: And oxygen.

In some ways the saddest part of this story is that this idiot can't even use being drunk as an excuse.

Oh yes, by all means, put the most comically overpriced grocer in the state downtown to help all those underprivileged folks in the "food desert".

On the bright side, at least I got a free laugh out of this one.

It ain't often I find myself feeling sorry for the members of the ACC commission, but if they had to endure these particular dregs for very long, they have my sympathy.

What a shocker, Clarke County Schools managed to be below the state average at every level (although _not_ at every school).

High: State 72.6 vs Clarke 67.0
Middle: State 81.4 vs Clarke 78.2
Elementary: 83.4 vs Clarke 75.5

re: dropping the name -- seems like that would be rather pointless. He'd just become "Robert Bartleh Cummings ... better known as Rob Zombie". Besides, his film career pales in comparison to his musical career and he's smart enough to know that it's the latter that has enabled the former.

The "lesson" in all this seems to be one that I'm amazed more people haven't learned: being a landlord often ain't worth the trouble.

Hey Crab Man

@helligater69: Last year it took Newtown five tries before a budget finally got approved. That's why the town budget & the school budget were separated this year for the first time (both were rejected, the school by a wider margin).

Here's a more localized & longer version of the story, for anyone who might be curious.

One thing for sure, the message voters sent was _not_ "this isn't enough".
A separate ballot question asked if the budgets were too low, voters said no by margins of 6:1 (town budget) and about 13:1 (school budget)

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/04/23/news/doc51774f1e5c75257543...

AG is above the curve as ABH writers go IMO ... but this is such a Berkeley-on-the-Oconee topic.

Not wasting the energy to get excited about this. It's actually {gasp} reasonable, so there's virtually no chance of it getting through the most dangerous days of the year aka a session of the Georgia Legislature.

I'm gonna go out on a limb & suggest the not only does "Gucci" have an attorney, but that he has one on speed dial.