I just found out that my recent letter to the editor about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago was printed in the Sunday edition of New York’s Newsday. You can find it right here.
Thanks once again to Newsday’s editorial staff for allowing me to share my opinion through this outstanding regional newspaper.
Totally true fact — as a New Yorker living in The South, I do NOT always understand what people are saying to me. The accents, the idioms …
I CAN’T keep asking people to clarify or repeat things every time this happens. This town would grind to a halt.
So if I respond inappropriately or not at all to something you’ve said to me, Roanokers, please know that I can’t help it. A lot of your upbeat utterances kinda blend together for me. We could be talking about American Idol, the Spanish American War, three-cheese omelettes, the Nikkei Stock Index, whatever. I JUST DON’T KNOW.
Marvel Comics.
Just north of downtown, seen on an overcast summer day from the walkway over the railroad tracks.
“What about Hillary?”
“What about Obama?”
“What about Black Lives Matter” [et cetera, et alia]?
If these people and organizations are truly the nefarious bogeymen that you claim them to be, then why should they set the standards for your own behavior?
Okay … let me put it in simpler terms:
If Hillary does something wrong, it’s okay for your guy to do it? I thought you were AGAINST Hillary. Did I misunderstand you?
Copperplate.
The Bristol Herald Courier today printed my latest letter to the editor — this one is about the F.B.I. executing a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Florida home. You can find it right here:
Thanks once again to Managing Editor Roger Watson for allowing me to share my thoughts through this outstanding regional newspaper for Southwest Virginia.
Popular Publications. I cannot ascertain the cover artist, but I believe it was Norman Saunders.
Believe it or not, I can remember Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” from its heyday — maybe not 1975, when it was released by Capitol Records, but definitely from the ensuing few years when it so often played on the radio. (It got lots of airtime, as it was a hit with both mainstream and country audiences.) This song will always remind me of my very early childhood.
It’s a catchy tune, really. But it is a bit of an earworm. Hum it at your won risk.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 