I went to Atlanta last week for work for a conference. I got in early enough to go for a quick run before the reception, although once I started I got a few odd looks--"What's this crazy white yankee [I was wearing a Michigan shirt] doing running in the middle of the afternoon in Georgia?" I unwittingly ended up on the Georgia Tech campus. At first, it looked roughly similar to the other campuses I've lived on. Then I ran past a dorm. On the first room on the corner, however, I saw a big confederate flag on the wall. Suddenly, the campus was much less like any I'd ever lived on...


Anyway, on the way to the airport, I talked with the shuttle bus driver guy. His son's a Marine presently stationed in Iraq. I'm always interested in trying to figure out what's going on in Iraq, as opposed to what we read about here. According to this guy, things in Iraq are much worse than we hear. Which is bad.