One Brick Short

Disturbing thoughts on how to break voting impasses

Some things are obvious. Some things are learned the hard way. Some things, unfortunately are both. Here’s a series of true facts to help out those who may be in need of basic truths upon which to cling.

I thought I’d feel out of place attending the memorial service a celebrated literary author, but it turned out that even the celebrated are regular people. Maybe the regular people are the best people to celebrate.

They were the shots heard across the county, over the mountain and on the farms. Persons unknown—but a 16-year-old juvenile and 19-year-old Slade A. Woodson stand accused—fired a bunch of .22-caliber slugs at and around cars on Interstate 64, into houses and buildings, through VDOT trucks, at banks and street lights and pretty much anything else that wasn’t standing still.

50 is never having to say ‘I’m sorry.’