I could have written the headline “Of Colorado and Texas: a COVID-19 story.” But just covering airports and stadiums will allow you to get the gist. I’m also writing this off the top of my head because I’ll never get my head around the two Americas we’re living in related to the pandemic. My story […]
Yeah, now it’s kind of a weak headline when last time it was a little inventive dating back to a time when school politics were a big thing and my dad ran for the board because the school district needed a new sheriff and more than a few deputies. So does Mesa County. I’ve been […]
Snazzy headline, no? Well, it is to me. It’s a combination of two taglines my dad used when running for the board of education in my hometown of Monroe, Mich., about 50 years ago. One tagline didn’t work. The other did. But I’m not sure which was which. I’m going to use this column to […]
I’ve been doing some research on big building projects and came across this little ditty because I like the comparison for the purposes of this column: “The Taj Mahal is located on the right bank of the Yamuna River in a vast Mughal garden that encompasses nearly 17 hectares in the Agra District in Uttar […]
As many readers know, I usually have no problem writing whatever’s on my mind. I also use hackneyed humor, slathering sarcasm and honed hypocrisy in my columns. Oh, I occasionally use alliteration. And I always use sets of three in sentences. I read somewhere threes work best when using examples to make a point, stress […]
And at the rate we’re eliminating choices for free peoples, free to choose might become a worthless talking point from the almost worthless talking point it is today. And just who’s at the forefront of this phenomena? The usual suspect: our government. Let’s begin with the Mesa County School District 51 Board of Education. The […]
At least that’s my take on the every four years spectacle we call the Olympics. Well, except the new COVID calendar has it in a five-year (and who knows what’s next) cycle this time around. I’m just glad I get the chance to take a political, social activist break from the craziness in the world […]
I took a lot of heat (and received plenty of compliments) from my last column titled “The lost art of the follow-up question.” The heat wasn’t from the topic, but rather the tone. For some reason, my tone had people telling me, “This is why our country is so divided.” It’s as if I was […]
Is it just me, or have members of the mainstream media — read Democratic party spokespeople — become mouthpieces spouting talking points word for word as they’re told? I know we all know MSM leans well to the left, but it’s become the Mortimer Snerd to the Charlie McCarthy Democrats. I didn’t say Edgar Bergen, […]
And chances are, the change will be to the advantage of both the writer of said headline and the source. There is no better PR example to relate this to than all the COVID-19 stories we read every day. The one consistent COVID thread I keep hearing is “COVID did this to you” or “COVID […]