Opinion

To the Editor:

A good friend told me recently he bought four guns as insurance against a violent society. I didn’t bother to note that he lives in a particularly low crime city.

The past couple weeks saw Hoosier leaders celebrate two new factory announcements in the state. Together they promise 1,900 factory jobs and roughly $4.6 billion in new investment. Unsurprisingly, this is the sort of thing elected leaders like to tout. The sunny economic development press release is older than the nation and is an especially bipartisan indulgence.

Now that the brave and compassionate souls in the Indiana General Assembly have finished their jihad against transgender athletes, perhaps they can find a new target for their next crusade.

Earlier this spring, my wife took a photograph that still sticks with me.

Whenever I read a newspaper article that begs to become the basis of my next humor column, I cut it out and save it. Then I forget where I put it. (I also do that with car titles, birth certificates, and my life insurance policy.) But here’s one rich article I did find on my desktop…

The Trafalgar Country Gardeners plant sale was a great success. The proceeds will help fund community service projects for the next year. Gardens-ful of hearts to the following:

I know that I will never forget where I was when I heard the news of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. We were visiting our son, daughter-in-law and our two grandchildren in another state. Our grandson is the age of the children killed.

“We just agree different.” Yogi Berra

One of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s favorite hymns was titled, “If I Can Help Somebody.” It’s a simple little song with a simple little message about how to avoid living in vain. I have only heard gospel versions of it, and I know that it is generally sung in Christian churches. But when I hear it, I don’t think about religion. No, I think generically about service to others.