New Shoes in the Rain

Good Sunday morning to all.  Hope you're having a good weekend. It's a gross understatement that last week was a very full week indeed, with events of all types influencing how things will go from here.  So let's touch on some of the more important events worth mentioning. The Select Subcommittee on January 6 continued their public hearings last week, this time showcasing some powerful witnesses who spoke to the Trump Campaign's concerted efforts to disrupt and invalidate the electoral processes in multiple states in 2020.  The most powerful witness, in my view, was a state representative from Arizona named Rusty Bowers.  He is a Republican, and serves as the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, and was and is a supporter for former President Donald Trump. Bowers spoke at length from a prepared statement and then answered questions from committee members, primarily Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger.  Bowers outlined events in Arizona that occurred after th

Greetings from the road, as I write this from the Nashville, Tennessee area, where I'm working for the next two days...  Lots going on in the world and in my part of it, too, so here's a smattering of what I've noted and have thoughts about. I'm still not ready to celebrate, but the "working group" of Senators may have come up with something they can agree upon in the area of revised gun regulations.  As the spearhead of this group, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy said, it's not nearly everything that many wanted, but it's more than nothing, and the Senator was careful to say over and over that he would not reject good in search of perfect.  The group is supposedly now drafting the bill that the Senate will debate and potentially pass. The House has been busy doing many of the same things, so there will be a reconciliation of the bills each house develops. And the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has now conducted two pu

Happy Sunday, everyone.  Hope the weather is agreeable where you are.  We're experiencing a rare break from high heat and humidity here in Kentucky for at least a couple of days. As I mentioned recently prior to the actual date, I had cataract surgery last Thursday.  But I didn't really provide much of an explanation of the need and the hoped-for outcome.  That I am sitting before my computer typing and editing with ease should at least address the successful outcome, but there's a little more to tell. Several years ago, and I would be hard pressed to pinpoint the date, I began to have a lot of irritation in my left eye, much like we see in commercials for dry eye remedies.  Really had a bad bout on a visit to Colorado in the late spring of 2014.  My wife and I were there for a family occasion and the dry climate there, I thought, was the primary factor, as I kept complaining of how dry and irritated my eyes were.  Bought and used over the counter moisture drops and went ab