Atomictumor

We now have public officials suing other public officials for putting public documents on private websites.

According to the Observer’s latest edition (which I’d love like hell to link to, but just can’t) Alan Beauchamp, the embattled director of probation service and buildings and grants in Anderson County, and evidently the Boss Hogg of A.C., is laying down a $25,000+ lawsuit against a local school board member for allegedly slanderizing him on a website.

Now, nobody else will link to it, so I will, because, shit, what else am I good for? From my glance at the page, it would appear that there really isn’t grounds for a lawsuit. I mean, its not like the website insinuated that he kept a sweatshop of child laborers, or a brothel of goats.  He keeps a website, and seems to like to use it for both recipes and for political smackdowns, as well as bolstering and endorsing his stable of candidates, but thats neither here nor there.

It would have been preferable, with as one sided as the attacking site was, for a little area for perhaps differing opinions, or maybe a chance to talk back, but hell, this is America.

Whats particularly deplorable about this whole thing is that Boss Beauchamp seems to be a lawsuit loving kind of guy. He dropped the bomb on AC commissioner Mark Alderson for a conversation in which he was called “convicted felon” and was accused of being fired from a bank.

Thats it? That gets a slander suit? What kind of skin does this jerk have?

And now he’s turning around and suing a school board member, and an active blogger, for an anonymous web site where some details of a real life investigation were mentioned. Thats some dickheadery.

It could also be the final thrashes of a sea cow speared and being pulled up in a net. Could be the days of wine and honey are coming to an end, and he’s wanting to make as much noise as he can on the way down.

Since the forums went so well, I’m opening up another toy.  Downloaded and modified from Jalenack’s deal, its looking pretty cool in the easternly part of the page.

It will probably break soon.

As some sort of cosmic judgement, GWB ends up getting Parkinson’s, or Alzheimer’s, or nerve damage, or one of the many things that might one day be cureable with the research that he has hamstrung today.

I try to stay optimistic as we round the bend on year 6 of his finger on the button, but its hard to. We have the end of the world brewing in so many different pots that sometimes I just have to either hide under the covers or get drunk and watch TV.

Good thing we’ve got boy band covers of Al Green songs on NBC.

Are those lines at school to pick up Junior getting you down?

Got the declining city blues?

Tired of Ansdorff jerking you around?

Well sit tight, because Mayor Bradshaw and Boss O’Connor have it figured out. They’re heading down to Oak Ridge’s sister city, Obninsk, Russia, to get the answers on our dime, along with some reps for the sister city project (on their own dime, unfortunately).

They don’t even have to raise property taxes to do it!

One thing you can say about Obninsk, is they have a snazzy website. Thats pretty sweet. I tried looking around for our sister snarky mean blog, Атомная Опухоль, but I don’t see it.  Thats a shame, because its probably full of good ol’ Russian goodness.

I’d be curious to see press of this thing, but, unlike G8, its probably top secret.  I’ll bet the Russians are like Bizarro versions of Bradshaw and O’Connor, and they’ll be showing off a dusty book called “How to cook Americans“, so they’re bound to be some sort of wacky misunderstanding, until they realize that the book is called “How to cook for Americans“, and goes on a predictable bend from there.

Still tho, I wish somebody would take me to Russia.  I like Vodka.  I can wear blue jeans.