Tweet There’s a blog post I’ve been meaning to write in recent days expressing my great disappointment with the Disney+ TV series, “The Right Stuff.” It is a strange, flat, uninviting and even depressing retelling of the tale of the seven Mercury astronauts. That’s it, just the astronauts. Nothing about the context in which they […]
TweetAs I’ve said over and over, it is critically important that we don’t let our guard down and “get used to” Donald J. Trump being president of the United States. This situation is not normal, and we must not for a moment act as though it is. We must remember that for 240 years this country […]
TweetThey’re closing in from the left and right. E.J. Dionne went further than he has to date in a piece headlined, “The Republican Party has lost its soul.” An excerpt: Let’s focus on the most revealing aspect of this week’s turmoil within a party now aghast over the unstable egotist at the top of its […]
Tweet The following comes from the Oconee County Sheriff’s department: By: Jimmy Watt Public Information Officer (Walhalla, SC)——————————-Jason Mark Carter, who was committed and found incompetent to stand trial in the 2006 murder of his mother and stepfather, has escaped from a mental health facility in Columbia. Carter, who is 39 years old, is a […]
Tweet I started my career in a state with a real Sunshine Law… Tennessee. The expectation was clear there, back in the heady post-Watergate 1970s, that the people’s business would be done in public, and that government documents belonged to the people as well. This led to a lot of awkwardness. For instance… I well […]
TweetLast night, the lobbyist for the Coastal Conservation League and its allies sent out this note to supporters about the House passage of the DOT plan that coalition had been pushing: After four hours of debate and consideration of 39 amendments, finally, the House overwhelmingly approved the great DOT Reform bill, H.3575, crafted by Representative […]