If Boulder prevails and other municipalities pursue and prevail all over the country, one source I read predicts our electricity bills will rise by $1,500 per year per household. And then there is the gun control aspect.

Highland County has had at least four car/buggy accidents in the last month. Going back six years this coming February, my friend, Scott Richardson, was killed in a car/buggy crash on U.S. 62, south of Hillsboro. That crash was caused by distracted driving (it was around noon on a bright sunny day on a straight stretch of highway with almost two miles of visibility). These car/buggy incidents were theoretical for me – until then.

The Democrats have managed to gather all sorts of characters under their tent, all not good for the overall health of the country. Democratic Socialists, Muslims, Abolitionist Movement (seeks to replace or substantially dismantle existing systems of policing, prisons and incarceration), Green New Deal activists, and anti-capitalists activists.  

I got to thinking about happenings over my fairly long life and concluded there has always been a crisis.  

We had played golf that afternoon at Kingsmill Plantation Course at Williamsburg, Virginia. I was there for a conference.  

When I was young, it seemed as though a majority of adults were proud of their work. If they weren’t proud, at least they were accepting of the situation.

I have decided I am in favor of building data centers, as long as they comply with all local, state and federal codes and regulations. We already have data centers now. Ever store anything from a computer in a cloud? That is in a data center.

There is a word that has bothered me for a long time. It is the word “guy” or “guys.”  

I have watched you, Mr. President, and you have been very effective about improving the looks of our country. Without any new laws, I think you could develop a rivalry between the railroads that would cause them to clean up these messes.

We can’t let the despots win. If we do, we have failed terribly at learning history and saving our country for future generations. 

Dr. Mark A. Brown did a wonderful thing this week. Dr. Brown is the president of Tuskegee University (formerly the Tuskegee Institute) over in Alabama.  

Speaking of peanut butter cookies, a couple of weeks ago, I got a nice big box of homemade cookies from a young man on Pondlick Road. (You know who you are.) It was a pleasant surprise. Thank you. I think I will get a couple of those now.

The wife told the husband that they were meeting two of her best friends for lunch. One of these friends was bringing her husband along; ergo, the wife was expecting her husband to come as well. On the appropriate day and time, all showed up at Major Drum’s very upscale restaurant.

I’ve lived long enough to see a complete cultural shift. When I was a child, people went to extraordinary lengths to assimilate into the local culture.

Those outraged by President Trump (including now the entire FIFA organization – what is a red card and why do I care?) have become very, very boring.