Of course, there are all sorts of reasons events might seem inexplicable to someone not acclimated and acculturated to the art of goings-on in the peanuts-pecans-and-peaches state. Some things defy the ordinary belief that we all have our own peculiar ways of doing this and that, and that one should make some allowances for that. Here's one comes to mind:
A Georgia judge pulled out his gun while court was in session, in a rape case. Judge David Barrett said the female witness was "killing her case" with her reluctant testimony, said she might as well go ahead and shoot her lawyer. Most weird, a real collision of worlds, especially as how we also hear Wesleyan College in Macon was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women.
Then, of course, we had the Queen of Loose Screws, one Orly Taitz of Birther-rama fame, previously fined for filing frivolous and fanciful lawsuit fare. Georgia Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi had earlier allowed another one of those suits through -- another involving supposed confusion over the place of President Obama's birth, and some legal wrangling over an ability for his name to appear on the Georgia ballot come voting time.
President Obama's lawyers sent Georgia Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, a letter requesting the fairy-tale madness be given the heave-ho. Kemp replied that not showing up for story-time would be done "at your own peril." Here, we are left with a vision of a tongue being stuck out in further punctuating a sloppy so-there.
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