Category Archives: Opinions
I can feel the truth in my blue blood
I don’t know how many of you remember this, but I am actually a direct descendant of Henry VIII, king of England, 1509-47.
I laid out a very clear case for this claim in a column a couple of years ago, and despite any fake evidence to the contrary, I believe it.
I have the right to believe whatever I want as an American — except Communism and flag
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How serious are we about detesting sin?
We spoke last week about addictions that involve more people than we could imagine, and we should realize by now that personal problems happen whether one proclaims they are a Christian or not. We live in fleshly bodies with a default nature and its not a surprise that with our 
carnality having it’s own desires, we have difficulty staying on the straight and narrow. We mentioned that cognitive dissonance is when we know something is wrong and experience guilt
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Pancakes have 2 sides
Pancakes have been around for centuries (Get it — “a-round?”).
More than 12,000 years ago, pancakes were made from grains mixed with water or milk and cooked on hot stones. That sounds reasPonable, since we all know that it is possible to fry an egg on the sidewalk these days.
American-style pancakes, made with cornmeal, were called Johnnycakes. Shakespeare mentions
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How can scams go on this long?
A grandson collected his grandmother’s survivor benefits for 30 years after her death.
How, one wonders, can that happen? Is no one checking to be sure those who receive benefits are still living?
In this case the survivor benefits, based on the woman’s marriage to a veteran, kept going to her bank account. And the grandson kept spending the money, $1,100 per
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Don’t get caught up in survey scams
The latest craze in senior scams is surveys. Thieves want to know our opinions about products and services, and we’re happy to oblige — especially when there’s a lovely prize for us if we participate.
Who wouldn’t want an expensive TV or a vacation just for answering a few survey questions?
We wouldn’t, that’s who. Because it’s likely part of a scam.
Survey scams can show up in any number for formats, either a direct call to you or in
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Councilman weighs in on Trump rally costs
I read last week’s article about the Trump rally and the costs of the rally. Let me add some clarity.
Lindsay Graham asked the city of Pickens if President Trump could speak at the Independence Day Celebration. The city agreed. People like the city administrator Charlene Carter, Chief Randal Beach, Davey Hiott and Barry Crawford (Market at the Mill) worked with Team Trump
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Calibrating my new AI partner
Most of America’s problems could be solved by the use of an Electromagnetic Alternative Reality Rerouter.
That’s a device that would beam out waves that would align a new set of synaptic connections in everyone’s brains that would instantly enable them to understand why the people they disagree with think the way they do. And vice-versa.
Perhaps then we would discover that there’s really no one to “save America” from but our own
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Honest with God and ourselves
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information and the mental toll of it. Relevant items of information include a person’s actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, convictions and things that are going on all around us.
Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as mental and emotional stress when an individual
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Where is Capt. Molly?
Margaret Cochran was a little rough around the edges, but then, she led a pretty rough life. Born in November 1751, she was only 5 years old when the Delaware and Shawnee tribes raided her family’s farm. Her father was killed and her mother was kidnapped, and with no one to ransom her, she was never heard from again.
Newly orphaned, “Molly” and her brother, John, went to live with their uncle. When Molly was
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Courier Letters to the Editor 8-2-23
Keep on dreaming
Dear Editor,
I was listening to a song the other day by the late Scott McKenzi called “San Francisco.” The song paints a beautiful picture about a dream of that generation of so long ago, a lifetime now gone.
Just a dream, most of which never became a reality, and that is true of all generations. If you think about it, one generation arrives on the
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