It’s nearly the end of another year, which means it’s time to reflect on all the people who rubbed us the wrong way in 2011 and make empty threats about what we’ll do to them if they pull that shit one more time in 2012.
In the interest of Christmas cliches, we have compiled our annual naughty and nice list. Do you want the good news first or the bad news first?
Naughty
1. Kim Severson
2. Robbie Brown
3. Kim Severson and Robbie Brown on the same byline
Everyone’s still buzzing about Severson’s latest thing, “that pecan article” (come on, Hawkdogg hasn’t updated his MySpace page since March!), and we’re probably still rolling our eyes over Severson-Brown’s “black Hollywood” piece. (Good inventory of subtle offenses here.)
Oh, and let’s not forget Brown’s Waffle House crime story.
These are the issues that Atlanta and the South face. THESE ARE THE THINGS NEW YORK TIMES READERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TO CONTINUE SHAPING THEIR WORLDVIEW which apparently begins and ends with that one scene from Mame where Lucille Ball goes to Savannah to meet Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside’s family.
But these articles to which we’ve already alluded barely scratch the surface of what Severson and Brown are capable of! Sometimes they cover the ho-hum trend pieces for which The New York Times is famous, or they’ll hone in on one person in a human interest profile and won’t try to convince the readership that this one Bogart man or “Windy” (=Gone With the Wind fanatic) represents the whole of the South, all of it, every last person. But then there are the times they get carried away, lost in some grotesque scattershot caricature that they know readers from other geographic regions will read with glee.
Behold some of their most offensive clippings and anecdotes from the past year or so: (more…)










Is that the sheen of Brylcreem or does he perhaps use a hair tonic? Whatever it is, it’s helped him achieve perfect Kennedy hair, something this country needs right now more than ever. 



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We haven’t been too hot on the Wheatdawg trail lately, but that ends TODAY when Thomas made national news just for doing his job, which is 1) playing on Facebook all day and 2) identifying when Georgia politicians are being racist. Read about his triumphs
You know, I don’t take 

First, some history. Georgia State started as the night business school of Georgia Tech (in the 1940s, primarily serving recipients of the G.I. Bill). That screams wholesome times a million! Therefore, GSU wasn’t able to build up a reputation as a school full of redneck hippie deadbeats like the University of Georgia enjoyed. Try recovering from that! And only recently has GSU really started providing on-campus living arrangements. Their first move was taking over the Olympic Village, where hundreds and hundreds of the world’s top athletes engaged in 









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