Opinion

Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) threatens to cut funding to San Marcos if the city embargoes Israel.

It's important to note that in 2021, two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa, Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel, co-authored an op-ed concluding that Israel had become an apartheid state.

Art Naebig's May 1 fair warning about President Trump is as tiresome as those we've had to endure for the past 10 years.

Life feels more precarious than it used to. That's partly because I'm old and life IS more precarious. But part of my insecurity comes from places that surprise me. In the past, I spent very little time thinking about government services like FEMA and the FDA and the EPA and NOAA (the weather folks.)

Didn’t we just celebrate Easter? How did graduation arrive so quickly?

High school graduation still is one of the best days of my life, and I hope it is too for all this year’s graduates.

So here’s some encouragement from someone who’s experienced a whole lot of good and bad stuff. Hopefully, I can dispel a few myths, too.

We’ve all experienced the upsetting phenomenon of being “pushed out.” Remember that recent office meeting when somebody would not stop dominating the conversation? Or that time at school when some big kid pushed you off the swing set? It feels unfair, even unsafe.

The spider that once lived my sink in the bathroom is long gone. I left it to grow and make its home in the high corner because bugs, you see, are important and I’ve been reading that they are in crisis. (Don’t get all technical on me. Spiders are bugs in my vocabulary.)

Without playing Democrats and Republicans, would anyone care to take time and effort to sift past the hot air of propaganda, searching and logically comprehending the long-term benefits vs the short-term pain of Tariffs?  President Trump said up front, there will be pain.

We can never remember how long we have been doing this. Has it been 56 years or 57? We started our weekend trips in 1968, I think, but maybe it was 1969. We tried to figure it out based on pregnancies.  Cookie's mother told her pregnant women should not go camping and sleep on the ground; but we went anyway.

It's time to face the facts and admit we have been conned by one of the biggest con men ever. He is a charismatic narcissist defined as someone who can get people to do things against their best interests. His name is Donald J Trump.

Alternate meanings of words that have become useless in 2025. Numerous words have become either meaningless or have evolved into other expressions most people would assume they meant, but don't.  Here are just a few of the top 100 changed meanings, expressions, or deceptions. First is the word "cut or cutting" a budget.