Monday, June 02, 2008
We Like Rankings, too... But We Understand the Lower Scores Better
AUGUSTA, GA. - So, Damon Cline wrote one of his usually excellent analyses of business and trends in the area today in the Augusta Chronicle. He drew no real conclusions, but gave us plenty of food for thought. But because my opinion is so very important, I'd like to weigh in on the subject of rankings. Our commissioners call each other by quasi-racist slurs like "boy" and vote almost strictly along racial lines. Our arena authority gets into fistfights. Our schools... don't even get me started. Even if our daughter does attend a public elementary school and high school, she'll never attend a middle school in this county. Anyway, perhaps the reason that we ranked below Columbus, Ga., and Columbia, S.C., might be best illustrated below.
Dude, I don't even know what this says.
Who the heck is Rufus?
How do you even get up that high?
Lums? What does that mean?
Nice windows, dude.
Pretty.
Uhh... what is that about? You're tagging the garbage alley?
The "gift" of graffiti.
Not somewhere I'd go for a stroll.
Good things to eat? Maybe long ago...
(Sigh...) What is this even about? How do you own a building and let it get like this?
Dang, move in and live there, or something.
Dang, move in and live there, or something.
Great Kentucky - what?
Anyway, with things looking like that all over the downtown area, except for a couple of well-developed blocks, it's no wonder that the streets more often look like these photos: devoid of people even on a beautiful, temperate Spring day.
When I was kid, in Florida, there was a restaurant called Lums. Sort or a roaring '20s theme with ice cream and hot dogs.
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