The Rant

Rhonda Thurman, thanks for your service, dedication, and, sometimes, controversial sincerity. Your greatest quality: You always took a position. You put vacillation in its place.

According to Ms. Thurman's "self-evaluation" Pachyderm comments, she vigilantly served 20 years on the school board and was always right on every issue. Amazing!

Order of operation. When all Sister City, years-long work is finished, please take a minute and work on local infrastructure. Thanks in six languages.

Everything our state legislature does is for the good of everybody but us. It's a Confederacy of Dunces. We need to vote them out.

Bill Lee introduced vouchers as a limited program for better education. Then his real goal emerged: taxpayer covered tribalism. Not learning, growing together, but "legal" separation.

Haig syndrome affecting County Commission chair? Following 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan, Secretary of State Haig said, "I am in control here." He wasn't.

I drive downtown regularly. I go down Brainerd Road, down McCallie. I see more and more bike lanes and never see a bike. Isn't there a better use for road money, like pothole repair?

Clay Bennett, cartoonist extraordinaire, nailed it with green regurgitation dot depicting MTG. I believe he deliberately left a cliffhanger on generic Kelly green dot.

TFP health inspections continue to inform. Exclusive dinner club atop office building scored 86 for restaurant, 94 for bar. Alcohol is a natural disinfectant.

Relative humidity. State legislature's courageous move to stem epidemic of first cousins getting hitched illustrates relative humidity is more than just hot August Tennessee weather.

Batty. Former political adviser arrested for allegedly attacking someone with baseball bat same week local minor-league baseball begins. Blame it on the eclipse!

Dialogue deprivation."It was becoming a dialogue," says Hamilton County commission chairman. Elected body dialogue with constituents at weekly public meeting threatens democracy. Adjourned!

No doubt the outdoor advertising companies would go broke without lawyers' advertising.

Trump as a convicted felon could serve as president, but a convicted felon couldn't vote for him.

Hey Joe, I worked my backside off to repay my student loan. But I could use some help with my car loan. There's really no difference, is there?

If it's Israel's right to respond to Iran's missile attack, did Iran have a right to respond to Israel's attack on Iranian consulate in Damascus?

"Doonesbury" had Trump put himself forward as the suffering Jesus. Trudeau and the TFP have trampled on the USA's Christian heritage. Shame.

It is not illegal to settle disagreement claims with money. Companies do it all the time. They just don't call it hush money. Hyped news.

Please read the [opinion] commentaries by Victor Davis Hanson. The April 8 column, "Great Illusion in Ruins," is a must read.

A Jerusalem court refused Netanyahu's attempts to delay his bribery, fraud and corruption trial. Now do you understand why he's starting wars and killing thousands?

Republicans won't pass immigration reform/border control bills; they keep the issue festering to hurt Biden.

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