It's all of 9 degrees in Small Town this morning, and the headline in Small Town Newspaper reads "Jobless Rate On the Rise." sigh.
With those things in mind, I present you with this.
With those things in mind, I present you with this.
You know I occasionally check my hometown newspaper's website to scan the obituaries (morbid, I know, but I'm at that age). Over this past weekend, I read the obituary of Indiana State Senator Anita Bowser . She was a noted Democrat who championed causes protecting the neediest in the state's population. She was respected on both sides of the aisle for her intelligence and plain and outspoken approach to law making. The picture on her senate page is lovely. I remember none of those things about Anita Bowser . My first year or so in college was spent at a branch of Purdue University, and in the early 80s, Anita was a political science professor. She taught my American Government class my freshman year, and she was a mess. Somewhere in my old text book, I have a sketch of her drawn on a particularly dull day in class--her hose sagged at her ankles, her slip showed at least half an inch all the way around, her hair had been slept on but not brushed, and her bright red lip stic...
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Your editorials have a way of making me sit back and smile and say "Well, that's alright then."
A rare gift.
Roll on spring!
I wish our newspapers would let us write pieces like this. It's all news, news and boring news.