I am a proud American and southerner, as well as a student of history.

​Thankfully, it is now more than a dozen years in the rear view that I realized a series of poor choices that I was making related to alcohol.

The United States has not had official diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran since the fall and departure of Mohammad Rez Shah, the Shah of Iran and last monarch of the nation in January of 1979.

During the late 1970s, Brian Lamb, then the Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief of an industry trade publication called "Cablevision," proposed a channel on the growing cable spectrum to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage and airing of the U.S. Congress in action.

There is a popular 'ice-breaker' game, which you can also use to better get to know someone, which rose to popularity among Generation X, and has continued sufficiently to now have its own App on Android phones called, "Would you rather?"

Georgia, one of the 10-most populous states in the nation, has a voting age population of close to 8-million, and more than 7.5 million registered voters.

This is a test... This is ONLY a Test... Followed by a series of sharp, pitching squeaks and clicks on your typically AM radio dial.

I am a gambling man, though pretty disciplined in that I only play Blackjack and very rarely the lottery as the Powerball and Mega-Millions games approach a prize of $1-billion.