Invasion of the wiener dogs
Ron Holmes It all started innocently enough. I had given my dog, Jake, a half-can of his usual breakfast fare, cheap dog food. Well, it’s not really cheap. It’s actually grossly overpriced, (and to think, I can remember when the elderly poor could afford to buy dog food). These days hotdogs are cheaper, which is [...]
0600: Time for calisthenics!
All right all you people! I want you out on the streets every morning by Zero Six Hundred Hours for Calisthenics. After that we’ll take a five-mile hike and be back in time for a healthy breakfast. It’s time you all shaped up out there. “Poor old fool has finally gone off the deep end,” [...]
All our food in one Monsanto basket
A couple of news items this past week caused me to start thinking about how much food production has changed in my lifetime. I’m old enough to remember when a large portion of Oklahomans raised most of their own food. My grandparents in Eastern Oklahoma were a good example. They worked a small, rock-strewn farm all their lives, made [...]
Give USPS a chance
One thing I’ve never been able to understand is why so many people bad mouth the post office. Maybe it’s because governmental organizations are expected to be slow, inept and inefficient and that government employees are stupid and lazy. Right? Or maybe it’s because the Postal Service is going broke and costing taxpayers a fortune? [...]
Crooks and Liars Club
The Oklahoma Crooks and Liars Club, also known as the Oklahoma Legislature, is at it again. Here are a couple of items on their agenda which are sure to impact you and your family. The first, from the legislature’s very own tax reform task force, is the income tax proposal. If you haven’t heard of [...]
Scientific smorgasbord
Apparently a large portion of the American public view science as a vast smorgasbord where they are free to pick and choose as they wish, a quantum physics theory here, a biomechanics theory there, while totally rejecting others. What else can possibly explain their attitude concerning global warming? First, let me say that the problem [...]
Dear Miss Online Singles
There was a time when major newspapers in this country offered their readers a valuable column of advice to the love-lorn. This trend was highlighted in Nathanael West’s second novel, Miss Lonelyhearts,” a dark comedy published during the last depression and this week’s suggested reading. As a service to our readers I’ve decided to update [...]
