Opinion

I think I’ve written about this before, so if you remember it, that’s good. It was probably not the column for which I won a Pulitzer Prize. Also, I didn’t win the Nobel Prize for it. My kids didn’t read it, and if they did, they didn’t mention it. No one sent me a thank-you note for sensitivity and understanding of the human condition. If I remembered sending it in, I’d wait to send in a similar column for a few years… but I don’t. I just know that this is an on-going problem, one that affects most of us, and is currently driving me crazy.

We’ve all heard of the futility of trying to take “country” from rural lads after they’ve moved to town, and the same likely applies to attempts to take “clown” from rodeo entertainers, even when they climb the educational ladder to school superintendencies.

Three people were arrested last week by federal authorities in connection with a human smuggling incident that left 53 migrants dead.

Monday is Independence Day here in the United States of America. It’s hard to believe that it’s been two hundred forty-six years since we declared our independence. Granted, we still had a war to fight and a constitution and some basic amendments to that constitution to hammer out. We had state government powers to balance with the powers of the federal government… and we had details, details, and more details to argue about, compromise on, and make them work. It took years and a civil war to work out some of the problems. As we all know… we are still working on it. That our government has lasted almost two hundred and fifty years is truly a miracle.

My phone pulsated with excitement that could be attributed to my Uncle Mort’s recent spate of news, both good and bad.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade effectively ends all legal abortions in Texas within the next 30 days, many news media outlets reported.

Tonight, I was tired… a little hungry… and really not into proving to the world that I could turn leftovers into a gourmet meal in thirty minutes. I’d spent the afternoon watching C span’s modern-day version of the Watergate hearings. If this rendition goes on as long as the 1973 version, then we may never eat again. (Stay with me. There is a correlation here.)

Minds’ gristmills generally become unhinged--if not totally off the rails--on items of recent history.

Anti-gun violence protests were held in multiple cities across the state over the weekend, while the state has imposed additional measures designed to strengthen school security.

What is happening in this world? Last week, I bought groceries for the two of us (four counting that twenty-five-dollar bag of dog food) and the bill was over two hundred dollars. Of course, I got home without the coffee filters and the ice cream. If I go back to the grocery store for those two items, it will cost me thirty dollars. That’s because I will not just buy coffee filters and ice cream. I will get some bananas, some cream cheese, and vanilla wafers. That’s if I already have the pudding mix.