Opinion

Here’s a happy thought. Spring will be here in just a little over two months. With that in mind I thought this would be a good time to start planning the garden. We’ve got all of those gardening catalogues arriving in our mailbox almost daily. All you need is paper and pen to get started.

I love to page through the catalogues and circle the item and the page numbers of those things that I’m interested in possibly growing. Don’t hold back. You never know what the next catalogue will bring and you may want to plant several varieties of the same thing.

Fox News offers both sides of stories

To the editor:

I must respond to the letter last week that said those who watch Fox News are uninformed. That person is wrong, and here’s why.

A little over a year ago I was happily watching the CBS Nightly News with Katie Couric. Even though her ratings were low, I stood behind Katie every night.

If I didn’t watch CBS, I watched CNN.

My last night of watching CBS happened this way:

It should be a no-brainer next year when the city and county accept bids for their insurance needs that the Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) and the Kentucky League of Cities are automatically rejected.

There can be no other conclusion given the outright financial debauchery that has come to light during the past year, and the exceptionally scathing comments made about each by the state auditor’s office.

Editor’s note: Virginia O’Hanlon, 8, wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

“Dear Editor: I am 8 years old.

“Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.

Al-Qaida and the Taliban have never been, are not now and never will be a threat to America or our freedoms.

They may pluck a tail feather from our Eagle now and then, but they will never bring her down.

The profiteers in Washington and the members of Congress who support them have been and continue to be the real threat. They constitute a much greater danger to our way of life than some phantom enemy in a country nearly 8,000 miles from our shores.

If our paths cross in the next nine days, I might wish you a “Merry Christmas,” but it’s just as likely that I’ll say “happy holidays.”

Personally, I celebrate Christmas and constantly try to remind myself the real reason for the season is the birth of Jesus Christ. But, I’m well aware of and perfectly OK with the fact that you may not.

As Americans we are blessed to have freedom of religion. To me this means, I have as much of a right to celebrate Christmas as you do to celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or nothing at all.

Occasionally, I write a serious column about things I learn or about how important learning is in general. This is not one of those columns. I learned a few fun things this weekend, so I’ll share those.

Thing #1

I love my mother, but she is almost impossible to tolerate when watching a University of Kentucky basketball game.

She is a UK fan, as in she wants the team to win and win by about 60 if at all possible.

Anderson County just keeps proving how great it is.

So far this year we’ve had so many things to be happy about, including sports victories, shooting a film and we’re among the toughest on drunk driving in the state.

Although some of us can’t drive, we still ride in cars.

With Christmas a few weeks away there will be lots of traveling to various places. We all know the roads aren’t always the safest places, but knowing Anderson County law enforcement is very watchful of the roads makes you feel safer.

Column as I see ’em ...

Did it bother you to see campaign floats during Saturday’s Christmas parade?

I make a living commenting and writing about local politics, so when I saw those floats go by I knew right away that some folks were going to object.

That’s fine, but let’s keep some perspective on this.

Yes, a Christmas parade is supposed to be about Christmas and, by proxy, celebrating the birth of Christ.