Poor Prognosis

I could not help but notice, during my first Internet surf of 2009, that the Courier Tribune is featuring a wrap-up of Asheboro's "top-ten" news stories for 2008.

Of course, Randolph Hospital's new "state-of-the-art" cancer center got top billing before the billing even started. David Renfro is nothing if not consistent. Primary care (especially Pediatrics) is in the toilet. But we'll cure cancer right here in Asheboro.

And Bob Morrison can retire in style while the kids he short-changed rot. (More on that train of thought later.)

There's nothing really new in the CT's blurbs - just regurgitations of old stories/old quotes. I am amused that the city fathers (particularly Mayor Jarrell) seem to think that they are going to be able to force the annexation of Dave's Mountain without fighting off a crowd of angry residents (including me) armed with clumps of asphalt (from the roads built to "minimum standards" by people like Councilman Walker Moffitt . . . then destroyed/left to crumble by greedy developers & builders), pitchforks and lawyers.

They won't be taking on preachers-who-have-to-walk-a-fine-line this time.

An old GSO elite-blogger stand-by came to mind as I perused the list. With modifications (and no apologies): "Asheboro's dying (in the CT's book, it only merited a ranking of 5/10) . . . Move on along, nothing to see here."

And while you're moving, you might want to pour yourself an iced-cold beer.

Happy New Year, folks. But Baby 2009 was born of crack-heads (God knows the-powers-that-be were smoking something), and already appears septic.

P.S. Thanks for the e-mail, Brenda. I already know how to use it;)