Yarbrough: Angling for shrimp as new year approaches
You can stick a fork in 2009. It is done. I can't say I am sad to see it go, except that it puts me one year closer to the ultimate conversation with my Maker, who can't wait to hear my excuses for a life not lived as well as he and I would have liked.
Only three things of note happened this past year. First, we swore in a new president, Barack Obama. Second, we lost Michael Jackson, which cut the weirdo quotient in the country by 50 percent. Third, and most important, the University of Georgia, the oldest state-chartered university in the nation, located in Athens, the Classic City of the South, won the state football championship. That's big. Really big.
I will welcome 2010 as I have many other years, with a corn-fried shrimp feeding frenzy at the exquisite little Georgia Sea Grill on St. Simons Island. Nobody has ever mistaken shrimp for brain surgeons, but you'd think by now they would have figured out that toward the end of December they would be wise to pack up and head for some place like Akron until I have come and gone. My arrival cannot be a surprise to them.
In 2010, we will elect a new governor in Georgia. Following Sonny Perdue as governor won't be easy. How can anyone hope to top Perdue's Go Fish Georgia initiative? To that end, I'm encouraging all the gubernatorial candidates to look seriously at my innovative program called "Go Eat Kudzu, Goats," in which we will get a bunch of goats to eat the kudzu off the trees on our interstate highways. That will bring in busloads of loud-talking Yankees who will pay big bucks to watch the goats eat. This, in turn, will put a dent in our deficit. We also can sell the tourists jars of pot likker and tell them it is moonshine, which they can take back home and show their friends who, also being loud-talking Yankees, won't know the difference.
The good thing about my idea is that it can work for both Democrats and Republicans. It is as ecumenical as it is innovative. Goats don't much care who our gover
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