My thought for today --S/f, EFP

Phineas, our older dog, often won't eat his food. I'm reminded of how parents of my day used to try to shame kids into eating foods they didn't like: "The starving kids in China would love to have your Brussels sprouts!"

Had my mother ever used that on me, I know what I would have said: "Fine! Send my Brussels sprouts to China. I hope the Chinese government makes their kids eat them. It would serve those little commies right!"--S/f, EFP

A genuine Palm-Print taken at the Pike Place Market in Seattle.

My current News & Advance and Kitsap Sun columns --S/f, EFP

 

My current News & Advance column. --S/f, EFP

 

A comment on the passing scene --S/f, EFP

Take a lesson from history. Are you familiar with the 12th century dustup between England’s King Henry II and Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury the king himself appointed? When Becket wouldn’t bend to the king’s will, the king reportedly posed a seemingly rhetorical question in front of his council: “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”

     Four knights answered the call. They murdered Becket in the cathedral.

     As Mark Twain once observed, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes." It’s rhyming now. Don’t kid yourself. When Trump mused out loud about Liz Cheney facing the barrels of nine guns, he was calling for Cheney’s assassination. Let’s hope no MAGA knight answers Trump’s call. --S/f, EFP

My current News & Advance column --S/f, EFP

 This one also appears in the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, Washington. --S/f, EFP

My current News & Advance column --S/f, EFP

 

My current News & Advance column --S/f, EFP