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There has been no public funeral, but almost everyone is aware that Common Sense in the country is dead. We received the following obituary….

Covid perils are still holding forth. But just not so bad now as perhaps a week or two ago. And will it reload and again assert itself as the big news story of our time and be the killer it has been. I hope not. This Covid has terrorized the world long enough. Well, long enough for me.

I saw my good friend Danny McDougal this past week and had a great visit. He is one of the most brilliant people I know. The reason I know this is because Danny and I agree on almost every political issue. Our friendship began over half a century ago when he became my banker….

School has started back and I wanted to share an old teacher’s contract for a Wisconsin School District that was used 100 years ago.

Last week I wrote about getting rid of the itch. This disease is sort of like getting rid of ISIS. You felt like you had gotten rid of it only to discover next week that it was back in full force. Such was my battle in the 1940s with the itch infections.

Bud Yount was a great baseball player and a very good friend of mine. We really miss his weekly visits to the Advocate. While doing some research I found the following story about Bud’s signing with the New York Yankees….

We enjoyed the story about the third-grade teacher who asked her students to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence. Molly said, “My family went to the New York City Zoo and we saw all the animals. It was fascinating.” The teacher said, “That was good, but I wanted you to use the word “fascinate.”

It was windy and lonely looking. And it was cold that day, like it was this last winter. Yep, the spot being perused by my brother Gerald and I was the place where we had lived once upon a time a long time ago. An old grocery store site with a small apartment in the back—all gone now.

One of the results of this Covid was Pat and I have watched a lot more movies here at home than normal. One would think when you glance background that I would have seen all the movies that I should.

The older I get the more I think about the “good old days.” And they in fact were the good old days. Awhile back our good friend Sue Clark Adams shared the following: