New Shoes in the Rain

Wondering out loud if soon, FINALLY, we will see some action from members of Congress that could help, even if only a little, to curb the gun violence issues that plague our country. I will not enumerate the many, many instances where it seemed that we had finally reached that crossroads where Senators and Congressmen located their morals and decided to defy the gun lobby and the many voters who cherish their Second Amendment rights.  There have been too many such times and too few solutions arising from them. To add to the dismay of so many, especially those who lost loved ones in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas just a week ago, we're now learning so much about the delay in confronting the attacker, who's responsible, and who actually made the first advance to putting a stop to this horrific attack.  As one would expect, lots of finger-pointing and even cries from the Governor of Texas, the head of the entire state government, that he was "misled," to use his wo...

I learned of our country’s latest mass shooting yesterday while traveling for business.  My post from Monday seems very silly and pointless now, so allow me to apologize. May the victims of this tragedy rest in peace and their families and friends find the grace and courage to go on.

Happy Monday, everyone....hope you had a good weekend with good weather. That's been quite a feat lately.  Here in central Kentucky, we had some unsettled weather last week and again over the weekend, with heavy thunderstorms, high winds and hail in some areas.  And here we are in the last full week of May and it's only gonna be 61 degrees today.  But climate change is a myth, they say.... Shout out to Kentucky native Justin Thomas, who scored an unlikely victory in the PGA Championship yesterday.  Thomas outlasted several other players yesterday, saving his best play for the final day, winning his second major championship (also a PGA) in a playoff with another young gun, Will Zalatoris (who also has some serious game despite some balky putting Saturday and yesterday).  Good on you, JT. The weekend wasn't so kind to rehabbing golf legend Tiger Woods, as he had such a difficult round on Saturday in cool and wet conditions that he wisely opted to withdraw from th...

The mass shootings of the last several days have really caused a lot of us to reflect on where we are as a society and what must surely be coming next. One thing is clear:  we don't have to wonder why these shootings happened. In Buffalo, the young assailant made it abundantly clear that he wanted to kill as many black people as possible when he killed ten at the Tops supermarket. In Southern California, a man of Chinese descent carried out his plan to shoot and kill as many Taiwanese church members as he could, because he hated them so much. In the Dallas area, a black man with delusions about Asian-Americans opened fire in a salon in Dallas' Koreatown and injured several employees.  The man was driving a van that fit the description of drive-by shootings at two other Asian-owned businesses in the area, but no injuries were reported in either of those drive-by incidents. The saddest part of all of this is that these people were all motivated by deeply held beliefs about non-w...