Am I Helping or Hindering the Cause?

 

August 16, 2025

 

I took an early morning walk on a weekend, and I noticed that, in all the subdivisions I walked through, there was a total of four houses (including mine) that had newspapers.

 

“Wow,” I thought. “No wonder they keep pushing the online version. They’ve gotta pay somebody to deliver these 4 papers—is it worth anybody’s while?”

 

So, I feel like I’m kind of dragging them down financially by my insistence on having a real paper. 

 

But if I didn’t get the hard copy, I’d never read the news; I’m not much of one for computers. 

 

So, I wouldn’t be paying for a subscription, which would be bad for the paper; and I wouldn’t be getting any decent news, which would be bad for me.

 

So, until they stop the service entirely, I guess I’ll keep getting the paper delivered. 

 

Sorry, newspaper people.

 

It's a Dirty Job, but...

 

August 29, 2025

 

A while ago, I suggested that maybe the way to get President Trump to do the right thing by the country was for people to hold a demonstration and chant (as an example), “Environmentalists for Trump”, or whatever the cause was. He seems to be motivated by feeling the love.

 

After the recent Cabinet meeting, it looks like the editorial board of the Post-Dispatch has come to the same conclusion: The way to get Trump’s cooperation is through blatant flattery.

 

So, let’s start holding our noses and chanting.