“Scruggs Nation” Blog Series: Good Reading — Even If You Don’t Care!
This is a very serious matter, but who says a blogger can’t have a little fun? Like when he reported that Attorney General Jim Hood moved to dissolve a restraining order barring him from continuing his criminal investigation of State Farm. “Hood has been a prisoner of his office for months now,” Rossmiller wrote, “reduced to a sort of Capt. Queeg-like state, mumbling about going after makers of fake contact lenses while clacking ball bearings in his hand.”
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Rossmiller has formed a virtual, if not completely imaginary, community. He addresses them by their new name, and doesn’t leave himself out of the posts. “Good day once again to the Scruggs Nation. A confluence of known and unknown deadlines and responsibilities of varying sorts — unusually heavy even for my schedule — robbed me of almost all blogging time yesterday and the night before, and Scruggs Nation posts take considerable prep time and effort. Thanks for the outpouring of concern and support from across the Scruggs Nation. I have not been abducted, nor have I fallen ill from mysterious radioactive substances slipped into my red Yellowstone mug of decaf with the white moose silhouette. I’m still trying to go through all the e-mails in my inbox, so I apologize if I haven’t gotten back to you.”
Lexis Nexis
1/25/8
Magnolia Tribune
