April 2017 ~ Rational To A Fault

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Correction

12:15 PM Unknown

Correction Correction: Irwin County Hospital does not provide dialysis treatment as I reported being told in my blog entry "The Stories of Ryan and Bo?" The hospital does not and has never provided dialysis treatment. I apologize for the incorrect information, and it has already been removed from the post. Irwin County Hospital is a fine institution with quality employees, and I definitely never...

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

The Stories of Ryan and Bo?

4:13 AM Unknown

Photo: Ryan Duke and Bo Dukes are pictured side-by-side in their high school yearbook. The Stories of Ryan and Bo? We may never know what actually happened the week Tara Grinstead went missing, but I think I'm getting a clear picture about the stories Ryan Duke...

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Friday, April 14, 2017

The Grand Jury Decisions

3:49 AM Unknown

Photo: Vehicles from several television stations are parked outside the Irwin County Courthouse Wednesday, April 12, the day a Grand Jury indicted Ryan Duke in Ocilla, Georgia. The Grand Jury Decisions By now, most of you know that Ryan Alexander Duke was indicted...

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

If I Was On the Grand Jury

4:46 PM Unknown

Photo: GBI Special Agent Jason Shoudel leads Ryan Duke into the courtroom for his first appearance Feb. 23, 2017 as Irwin County Clerk of Court Nancy Ross looks on. If I Was on the Grand Jury In less than 24 hours, the Irwin County Grand Jury will convene for the...

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Unstung Hero III

7:17 PM Unknown

Photo: These yellowjackets building a nest on my front porch don't really have much to do with this story, but they certainly don't bode well for the future. Unstung Hero III So I just went to the bathroom. Sorry, you can't choose how every story starts. So I stood...

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Anger Anxiety and Apologies

1:17 AM Unknown

I should be finishing the paper right now or sleeping or getting well. Instead, I'm bothered and down and embarrassed and feel I must admit my failings and in my own way, repent. But before I admit my mistakes, I'm going to talk about criticism and cowardice and bravery. I'm...

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Monday, April 3, 2017

The Maddening Role of Social Media

3:33 AM Unknown

Photo: Pictured is part of my computer desktop showing some the social media I had open as I finished this article, including Facebook and the Up and Vanished discussion board. The Maddening Role of Social Media Since the disappearance of Tara Grinstead in 2005, the...

2017 / Bo Dukes / Dusty Vassey / Facebook / Georgia / Grinstead / Ocilla / Ryan Alexander Duke / Ryan Duke / Tara Faye Grinstead / Tara Grinstead / The Ocilla Star / The Tifton Gazette / Up and Vanished

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About

Hey y'all. My name is Dusty Vassey. I'm a reporter, blogger, humorist, composer, song writer, cartoonist and general disaster of a human being from Irwinville, Georgia. I'm the staff writer for The Ocilla Star newspaper in Ocilla, Georgia, and one day, while debating my editor about some subject or other, I said, "I'm just trying to be rational" or some such. She responded, "I think you're rational to a fault." The blog is a place where I can post opinion pieces and humorous stories that are too long for the paper or have previously appeared in the paper. Many of the posts are also fact-filled opinion pieces or speculative reports about news stories, particularly the disappearance of Tara Grinstead, a famous mystery I've covered from the week she first went missing. I have been a regular guest on the podcast about the case, Up and Vanished, and I use the screen name ocillareporter on the UAV Discussion Board. I'm also known around my hometown as the "Irwinvillain" after my song of the same name, and I have a channel of music videos on YouTube if you're tired of enjoying pleasant sounds.

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