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Quote of the Week: “When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid.”
Read moreSocial Media has been both a blessing and a curse. There are many reasons that Dayna and I feel much better without Twitter or Facebook. Chip Roy and his family recently made the same decision and he shares his reasons for leaving social media……
Read moreIt was said, more out of hope than reality back during the election, that Joe Biden was a centrist not a radical. Sounded good. But about what? Being a centrist. He would pay less attention to the extreme right wing. And is Biden “one of them?” Did we at last elect a Truman Democrat? And what did the “warmers” really want? After day one we found out. The Keystone. The pipeline that passed just east of Allen and attracted so much attention from the metro press. How? Because a small band of protesters met the pipeline workers at every convenient highway crossing. They chained themselves to bulldozers, ditch digging machines after calling the TV stations. Hmm.
Read moreQuote of the Week…..“I think we need to stop calling it ‘working from home’ and start calling it ‘living at work.’”
Read moreWe stopped at the gas station to fill up the car. It was one of our rituals on my monthly visits: a trip to the hardware store, a fill-up.
Read moreSome health advisors are fearing that our current pandemic of COVID-19 could continue on for several more years. That is if we keep on blundering in our fight against this virus like we have been. The hope has been for a combination of factors such as this new vaccine against the virus and hope this would get us to the point of no more COVID-19. Not so. Early results show a big flaw in our plans.
Read moreLast week was when a big political rally for Trump went awry. Or was that Trump that went awry? Sedition? Coup? Who did this? Blame who you want, it looks like it is time to pay the bill. I do not know how much damage was done to our Capitol building but it was significant. But even more so was the damage to our reputation as a stable democracy. You can forget that “light on a hill” stuff for now. Maybe we can relight that beam again. Sometime or other. But do not hold your breath.
Read moreOne of our friends recently sent the following item to us and we thought our readers would enjoy it….
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