I know, another column about me and my feelings. But just what in the H-E double toothpicks did you expect? It’s my column, in my paper, and it’s gonna get printed, because I exert total power, control and the bucks that print The Business Times.

Truth is: I just like to write my opinions on stuff that interests me. The problem is: Most of what interests me is anti-government and its unrivaled lust for power, money and control. And when it comes to that, the left is so much more obvious at its lust. Especially when it is out of power.

It’s also problematic for most of those who write to me, because they put all their trust in leftist government to force their way of life onto others and become incapable of seeing they are doing it themselves. In my written-word world, I call that irony, because writing cognitive dissonance (truly the root cause) takes up too much space, is subject to misspelling, and I have a word count to stay within.

I wrote only two weeks ago about an emailer asking what facts supported my opinion the left is “breaking the law” when it comes to the “peaceful protests” all over the country. My response was, “Seriously?” I should have also pointed out the irony of not believing what one is seeing in support of my question.

There was also this ditty from another admirer (grammatical errors and attempts at literary license included for your reading pleasure) who pontificated the line, “your ramblings and non-sequitur reasonings will lead your readers to conclude that you have your head up your arse.”

Credit in using the King’s English to somehow validate your opinion on my cranial-rectal inverse, but wouldn’t it have been better to attempt an argument against one of those ramblings or nonsequiturs? No question from the rest of his screed, irony and humor was lost on the author.

The irony of irony being lost on the humorless left is so, what’s the word, ironic.

Yet it seems to be THE common thread in those who write me, including the “letter to the editor” you see opposite this column.

Now, I am not here to argue with the passion of folks who write to me. As a matter of fact, I encourage it. That’s why I write. To stir passions. I just wish they weren’t misguided, but rather, directed at the same folks I direct mine at: the government. Then again, it’s hard to direct attacks against the folks who are forcing your beliefs and way of life down the throats of those you disagree with.

I will begin with the obvious irony, along with the veiled insult and lack of humor the left is known for, in the first paragraph. Perhaps not calling the person you are writing an intellectually challenged, Fox News, parrot while writing a paragraph that could have been written by a talking-points-spouting talking head on MSNBC or CNN is not the best opener. But I saw the irony, and even some humor, from the get-go.

I must give the writer credit on two points, however. Although I deplore any sentence that begins with the words “most people,” the author did make two, valid points. The U.S. economy is supported substantially by migrant labor, and immigrant labor has expanded under every recent administration.

But you forgot the one word that makes all the difference: LEGAL. Yes, I used CAPS. And, yes, “….people are being targeted as political chattel.” Yet the author only sees Trump doing it. Ironically, it’s because Trump is trying to enforce the thousands of pages of immigration law passed, ironically, by Congress.

More irony to run by my Leftist readers. Trump was also following law passed by Congress when he bombed I-ran. But I digress.

The rest of the letter, in my opinion, is predictable anti-Trump talking points. Which, ironically is, apparently also on the left, more expedient than thoughtful discussion. A final irony, at least the author wrote something that could be published, unlike so many other emails I receive.

Just to give equal time to those on the Right who dissent on my opinion, allow me to give a shout out to our new mayor. Perhaps you saw where he called this newspaper “fake news” in a Facebook thread? Or maybe where he indicated one of our stories was “missing information” (read misinformation) on the city’s use of eminent domain in destroying a local business? He went as far in a private communication to accuse me of “turning” on the new council while comparing me to a local reporter known for using stories as opinionated, attack pieces.

No wonder you didn’t call for Jason Nguyen’s resignation. The irony of using his governing style is not lost here.

Mr. Mayor, you’ll meet few against the government fixing every problem while imposing its utopian vision on the people above me. Ironically, you know that. After all, I wasn’t, ironically, part of a 7-0 vote only to implement 95 percent of a project the recently elected council members literally ran for office on stopping and eliminating.

More ironic, writing my opinion about this may cost The Business Times access to city administration. Something the public shouldn’t find funny. But when it comes to money, power and control, all irony and humor are lost.

In Truth and freedom.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of The Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com