I miss smoking. There. I've said it. Now, I don't miss it enough to go out and buy a $17 pack of cigarettes — which is apparently the lunatic price these days — and sit down and smoke them, but I certainly miss it enough to hope that if I'm ever on a plane that's about to go down in a ...
Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s line that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Of course, what was an expression of optimism for the moral reformer King was more in the nature of a victory spike of the football for ...
The Republicans' greatest allies are the Democrats. They make error after error and repeat their errors. They say a dog goes back to its poop. Well, maybe that would explain it. In the spirit of March Madness basketball, the Democrats will jump for the "head fake" and simply go the wrong way, ...
Sometimes Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again. Back in 2020, during the spasm of violence in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, vandals in Baltimore, Maryland, tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus. They shattered the figure of the iconic explorer and tossed the pieces ...
"Fight for our rights, fight for your rights," is probably the most overused phrase in American politics. In this desperate moment when American democracy — and world peace — is in peril in one man's cruel chokehold, it's time to retire that jersey. "Resist for our rights" is the right ...
The March snow blizzards of 2026 have ripped the veil off of those who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. I’ve just recently been blessed to witness first-hand those who talk the talk and walk it as well. I’m referring to the brave, compassionate and empathetic law-abiding local employees of the Delta County Sheriff’s Office. I’m a single 58-year-old disabled female military veteran. I’m of medium stature with petite bone structure and of average weight. I’m not a big person by no means. This is important to know in order to understand the whole wonder of what I’m ...
