Fucking finally, the Atlanta City Council is working on some useful legislation to ban aggressive panhandling. Apparently, they just realized the business people, workers, and tourists downtown, who pay various and sundry extortionary taxes, are tired of dealing with aggressive and annoying panhandlers. My only problem is that the proposed anti-begging zone is far too conservative. At a minimum, it should include the entire City of Atlanta.

For all the homeless people in Atlanta, I have some advice that I will pass on. This advice was given to me by my father approximately twelve years ago and has served me well since then. The advice is: get a haircut and get a real job. Seriously, if homeless people are capable of begging for money, they are certainly qualified for all sorts of jobs. Collecting tolls on GA 400 is but one example that they could easily perform, given their core competencies.