Around Town – March 18

March 18

Orchids to …

• Angela Fleetwood for her letter.

• Angela Fleetwood for a well-thought out letter.

• 76% of the American people being in favor of and approving of the American Rescue plan that Congress just voted into action.

• John Krull and his excellent article about Dan Quayle.

• Keith at Auto Zone for putting my windshield wiper blades on even without being asked to do so, and did so in a very efficient manner.

• our mail lady on Nicholas Lane for making an extra stop to get my outgoing mail when I missed her.

• Debra Greene for bringing lunch and running the vacuum for me last Friday, love Mom.

Onions to …

• not allowing grocery store workers who have worked nonstop during the pandemic to get vaccinated.

• those who can’t think of a better use of their money than spending thousands on a decorated rifle.

• actually believing the former federal elected official was a good person.

• Border Patrol and ICE for working to hurt the current administration.

• those who still don’t know the difference between absentee voting and mail-in ballots.

• the letter writer who doesn’t know John Adams was a deist, believing in God but rejecting the core beliefs of Christianity.

• calling for evangelicals to rise up and support a heathen and criminal because their votes are what got us into this mess four years ago.

• those bellyaching about the border when former federal official had four years to do something about it and could only figure out how to separate children from their parents.

• local residents who witnessed or participated in the Capitol insurrection who haven’t contacted the FBI.

• the public television network presenting propaganda described as documentaries.