Credit Walt Rubel
Commentary: This is the time of year when people all over the world join in a collective wish that next year will be better than this one. Never in my lifetime has that bar been set so low.
Former children’s TV host Fred Rogers famously passed along the advice his mother gave him when he was a child and images on the TV news were frightening and confusing. Always look for the helpers, she said. In any disaster, there will always be people helping others get through it.
And so, with respect and sympathies for the 1.8 million souls worldwide lost to COVID-19 and their loved ones, I’d like to devote my final column of 2020 to some of those who have helped us get through this disaster of a year.
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Commentary: When I heard that the chairman of the Texas Republican Party wanted to secede from the union, I had the same thought as when then-Gov. Rick Perry floated the idea in 2009. What can we do to give them a nudge?
I wrote a column back then suggesting a new federal law prohibiting oversized belt buckles. I think we should do whatever we can to turn all that big talk into action.
Both then and now, the sudden desire to flee the union followed a presidential election that didn’t go their way. Kind of like when Lincoln beat Douglas in 1860.