Rich: The cabin

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes is the way we often say it. But the King James Bible says it more eloquently, “For dust thou art and unto dust, thou shall yield.

Letter to the Editor: Important dates

Dear Editor,Sept. 9th, 10th, and 11th — three days, till my time comes, that will forever be in my heart. On the 9th, my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, during which I woke up to find my wife handing me a card. I knew instantly what it represented.

Letter to the Editor: A word by any other name

Dear Editor,On September 5, President Trump signed an executive order that gives a new “secondary name” to our Defense Department, renaming it the Department of War.

Letter to the Editor: The sources of evil

Dear Editor,The radical left continues to pollute America. They and their Democratic henchmen, supported by our national media, are hell-bent on spreading their Socialist agenda. They feel entitled to the best of America and expect the government to provide it for them.

Yarbrough: A semi-intelligent look at artificial intelligence

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”Between you and me, I got hosed.

Stone: Log me into the ball game

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac. It’s great for the first two weeks.Lewis GrizzardI expected to be strictly a dispassionate chronicler of events when I got into this business, dear reader, but you and I have now been together here on Page 4 for going on 33 weeks.

Letter to the Editor: Well meaning but flawed

Dear Editor,The Sept. 4 essay “The Day the Guns Disappeared” by Ace Jones presents a well-meaning but flawed fantasy.

Letter to the Editor: Fact versus fantasy

Dear Editor,How do you deal with a fantasy like “The Day the Guns Disappeared”? Maybe facts will help. Back when I was young, the locks on doors mostly used skeleton keys, but the doors were not locked, and car/truck keys remained in the ignition.

Letter to the Editor: Tempus Fugit

Dear Editor,Having now lived more than three-quarters of a century, I’m finding that each year seems to pass more rapidly than the previous one.

Letter to the Editor: Fantasy response

Dear Editor,A letter to acknowledge Ace Jones’ recent letter concerning the tragic loss of life in Minneapolis.Surprise, surprise. It was all the gun's fault. I enjoyed his fantastic (his word) account of ‘The Day the Guns Disappeared’.