I have the feeling that younger generations (damn; I hate writing that, it makes me feel old) prefer social media posts to fair and accurate news reporting. Everyone on social media can present his or hers or "its, they's, them's" (in 2025 moronic parlance) expert reporting via cell phone video, regardless of the facts.

Since it's been a few years since his most-recent call, I had assumed that Ratchethead Ledbottom had passed away and we simply did not receive his obituary. Alas, the old curmudgeon remains upright, and his remains will be a future embalming endeavor (if necessary).

To those – from so-called educators to mainstream media hacks to paid public officials – who have cheered the man's assassination in the last few days, may your sickness soon be healed. It is beyond repulsive, but it is surely not contagious as Charlie Kirk so wisely proved.

To his credit, former President Obama appointed Tom Homan as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations in 2013.  Obama awarded Homan a Presidential Rank Award in 2015 as a Distinguished Executive.  Obama, by the way, not Trump, was dubbed the "deporter-in-chief." Why weren't Democrats crying and protesting then? Hello?

I would suggest that those law enforcement reports submitted to the media ought to include citations for using a cell phone while driving; and it might, perhaps, discourage that all-too-common practice in Ohio and elsewhere.

Regardless of any corporate spin, local service means local service, whether it is in private-sector business, law enforcement, health care, education or anything else. To spin it otherwise, is just the obscuring or embellishing of the truth of a disconnected situation with misleading or irrelevant information.

Today, the Chicago Cubs paid tribute to franchise legend Ryne Sandberg, just days after the Hall of Fame infielder died following a battle with cancer.

Many conservatives (and certainly many Republicans, not all of whom are conservatives) have lost trust in the accuracy of news reporting – and with good reason. 

I have said and written for years that former Pittsburgh Pirates superstar (and later former Cincinnati Reds outfielder) Dave Parker (and his former teammate Al Oliver) belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame. After way too many years of waiting for the call, Parker passed away today on June 28 at the age of 74. His special induction ceremony was just weeks away.

When someone like Morning Doofus or Fake Trapper insists that 2024 Joe Biden was the sharpest Joe Biden they've ever witnessed, they know full well they are lying to their audience. Still, they are gambling that their audience (those few believers) is willfully ignorant and easily led astray all the way to the ballot box. I suspect they often laugh about the extensive gullibility of their own audience. 

This evening, as I am apt to do on Memorial Day, I took a ride not far from home to the Tranquility Community Church and Cemetery in Adams County, where my father has been resting since May 1989, and where I ultimately will rest nearby. The cemetery couldn't have looked better.

After 46 years consecutive years in the printing business – most of it in something some folks call journalism – Journalism finally paid off.

Did you ever notice that a cold Shores Light Lager really tastes better after a $30 million lawsuit against you has been rejected in federal court? After being falsely accused of that which I did not do, it's good to see justice prevail. Vexatious, indeed.

House Speaker Mike Johnson walks into a bar with two green members of Congress. The bartender takes their order and asks, "Really? Both parties have to have a green nut in the House of Representatives?"