SPEAK OUT

A little mix-up

I ALSO enjoyed reading Tamara Zellars Buck's column about the combine turning the soil on her neighbor's field. It reminds me of the article I read about a wagon train going from Kansas to California, stopping at schools. The wagonmaster asked one of the students what he knew about mules. The student said mules are the result of a breeding between horses and cows.

Paying the lawyers

DEMOCRATS IN the Missouri legislature are fighting hard for the lawyers to be paid tens of millions of dollars in settlement fees from the tobacco companies. And little wonder. One of the largest contributors to the Democratic Party is the American Bar Association. Let's support Peter Kinder in his fight to keep the money for Missouri and pay the lawyers $500 an hour for work incurred.

County astronauts

I JUST read with great interest a comment decrying the fact that $295 million was being spent on traveling to Mars while a county road wasn't paved. I wasn't aware until I read this that Cape County was involved in space travel.

Old bus drivers

SCHOOL BUS drivers can drive until they are 70 years old. I don't think that should be allowed. Some of the bus drivers are too old to be on the road.

Medieval Missouri

Kinder and Bob Holden?

Relations are not golden.

"So then," say some sages,

"We'll stay in the Dark Ages."

Breaking pledges

It is now an iron law of politics that pledges of bipartisanship are always followed by finger pointing by Democrats and Republicans over who was responsible for the inevitable breaking of the pledge.

Solve two problems

I am not an engineer, but I believe we might be able to eliminate two pressing problems at once by moving the roundabout to Mount Auburn Road.

They didn't attend

I couldn't believe that neither George W. Bush nor the vice president did not attend the welcome-home ceremony for our servicemen and women who were held in China. I guess this is one more example of their definition of compassion. You can bet that President Clinton or Vice President Gore would have been there.

Maybe it's a joke

Oh, come off it. Drip painting is a drip. That's why the movie featuring the father of drip painting, "Pollock," hasn't come to Cape. Of course, the reason it hasn't come could be that some elements of our community are so into political correctness they prevented "Pollock" from coming to Cape because they thought it would lead many who wouldn't see it to wrongly conclude that we Cape residents lacked sensitivity and were showing a film making fun of people of Polish ethnicity.

And the winner ...

Even though it may cost Missourians improved bridges, highways, roads, education, medical care and more, I absolutely love the war of words between Senator Kinder and Governor Holden. I hope you're following it, folks. These are Academy Award-winning performances.

Handy ER

St. Francis Medical Center is running ads poking good-natured fun at the roundabout by reminding folks that all of the roundabout's innumerable entrances and exits lead to the medical center. When attempting to navigate the roundabout, my blood pressure, heart rate and nerves are such that it's a good thing St. Francis Medical Center, including the emergency room, are nearby.

Leave it to Uncle Joe

I'll go along with the Joe Sullivan-led movement to resist changing clocks from daylight-saving time. However, I hope Sullivan is prepared to defend me when my boss jumps my case for showing up an hour late, at least according to his clock. I'm going to say, "Take it up with Joe Sullivan."