I was mourning my seemingly endless inability to write anything but political columns lately, and then only once a week or so, when I stumbled upon the root of my problem.

I got to looking through my archives and realized that after the end of June 2011, my “creative” writing suddenly slacked off and . . . → Read More: How It Happened

The dimwits in Washington keep making it more and more difficult for you and I to make an honest living.

Here we go, gas is going up because—you guessed it—Iran’s acting like a big buffoon AND the economy is improving!

When in the heck are the idiots in D.C. and on Wall Street going . . . → Read More: Dimwits, Et. Al.

January, and I can’t complain too much about the weather, though those may be famous last words.

The worst may yet be ahead of us, but so far, this has been a pretty tolerable winter. I have been making a conscious effort to tolerate cold weather more easily, in preparation for that fabled era . . . → Read More: January

Sometimes, the news is just appalling enough it stands for itself, which is good, because I don’t know that I feel like writing today!

Here’s a great place to start:

“Demobilized soldiers will be able to study Asian cooking this year at the (Israeli) government’s expense, as part of an effort to reduce the . . . → Read More: Tidbits

God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows, cheap whiskey and branch water. Which way’s heaven? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream. – Arby Mulligan, Hymn No. 1 (the only hymn) of the . . . → Read More: Wish Me Rivers, Again

Ron Paul has served 12 terms in Congress. He ran for President twice before this campaign.

Why did the supposed racist newsletters never come to light before?

Think about it.

Merry Christmas! Guess what you get?

A dysfunctional government.

I sit here, open up a new file on the ol’ computer, and I want to talk about Santa, or the good ol’ days, or fishing, or how much I miss my creeks, or Bogie, or this or that.

Yeah, that’s what I want.

But . . . → Read More: Dysfunction

The City of Franklin has the holiday spirit!

Don’t the lights along Main Street and Parc sur la Teche look great?

Congratulations to the city, especially Belva Notto and the rest of the public works department for working so diligently to light up the season with such good cheer.

Community Development director Arlana Sheilds . . . → Read More: This and That

I can’t believe there’s no comments on my last post.

Listen up! This is probably the singular most critical and important moment in our lives thus far. Don’t blow it off!

If the detainee amendment to the defense bill passes, if Obama does not veto it, the U.S. will have the right to detain . . . → Read More: Wake up, people! No comments???