Atlanta blogs today: ‘This lack of water thing’ October 16 2007

If the City of Atlanta runs out of water, I say we stink - and we would be the first large American city to allow it to happen.

— Ashley at Random Atlanta, in a post titled “This lack of water thing is freaking me out”

I don’t know about you, but I’m gonna start referring to the drought as “this lack of water thing.”

Imagine an ice cream cone upside down lined with rooms and squashed a little so its cross section is more oval than round... Then make it 500 feet tall and take the elevators up to the 41st floor (higher ones need keys).

— Chris at Food, Travel And Exercise is impressed by the Marriott Marquis Downtown, designed by Atlanta architect John Portman. The atrium he describes is the supposedly the world’s tallest.

The pushback here-the claim that those of us who dare to suggest that Marshall support this legislation are just short of being socialists-is a classic Roverian technique, and in this instance has strong overtones of race-baiting. It’s not working.

Do the right thing, Jim. Vote to override.

— Amy Morton at Georgia Women Vote wants Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., to vote to override President Bush’s veto of legislation funding health care for uninsured children.

What a coincidence. So do I.