July 26 | Ridge and Slope Management
s you know The Home is located
at the base of a steep ridge near the Cheneworth Gap. The county
and the city of Knoxville recently collaborated on a task force
to study problems with contractors butchering local ridges and
slopes, leaving eyesores and silting surrounding branches and
creeks.
We dispatched our news team to cover the informational
meeting held at the Powell branch of the Knox County
Library last Thursday. We won't embed the player because, frankly
it was pretty boring. The interesting part began a few hours
after the videos were uploaded.
Our staff failed to set the 'comments' parameters as they
normally do - that is 'subject to approval'. You see we discovered
long ago that certain lazy people open accounts on You Tube but
don't bother to upload their own videos. Instead they just view
and comment (often crudely) on others' work. In a few hours we
had comments from somebody using our pages as a pulpit for preaching
the Gospel of St. Limbaugh. As soon as the administrator saw
them, the comments were removed and the user blocked from submitting
further sermons.
This morning Ms. Wearybottom informed us in the staff meeting
that she had found two nastygrams in her junk mail from a person
identified as only 'Blue Bird'. One subject line read:
you may remove and block my messages on youtube but the next
time I will tape and post as well honey
After she stopped laughing, she printed it and brought it
to the staff meeting where she speculated as to how the meeting
could have gone differently had Blue Bird recorded it instead
of our crew. Maybe (s)he edits video the same way Sean
Hannity does.
She answered Blue Bird with assurance that we were pleased
that some little something we had done had managed to chap his/her
ass.
ome of the residents have become
incensed at the news that our County Law Director has admitted
embezzling (Oops, it seems the correct word is 'defalcating'
- no shit, defalcating) money from his law firm and accepting
a 'loan' from a local developer shortly before he was elected.
We attended a 