Georgia-Tennessee border dispute continues

I may have been a bit harsh Wednesday when I wrote about the General Assembly passing a resolution that called for a commission to investigate whether Georgia was robbed, thanks to the surveying foul-up of a UGA mathematician in 1818, of a claim to the Tennessee River. (Save me your "should've used a techie" jokes — this blog is not affiliated with any institute of higher education.)

In fact, yesterday on the Senate floor, after I handed my Creative Loafing card to state Sen. David Shafer, R-Duluth, one of the authors of the border-dispute bills, he said, "Yeah, one of your bloggers was having some fun with my resolution." He called the post a "nasty-gram," which I love.

"That was probably him," said Greg Bluestein, a damn fine chap from the Associated Press who was standing nearby, referring to yours truly.

"Yep, that was me!" I said. "How are ya?"