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Page A-4 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
TIMES I
The final leftovers of 2020 Black lives d6 matter
mazon CEO Jeff
Bezos looks like what
cience fiction artists
have projected men
would look like in
the future.
Political correct-
ness is so had these
days. I mean, it’s
absolutely inconve-
nient and exhaust-
oysters, mussels and geo-
ducks? What have clams
figured out?
I like when the
word “late” is used to
describe someone who
has died. It’s a good
way to keep up morale.
I’ve never seen a
picture of Hitler on a
horse. Have you?
ing to consistently
make the effort'to By KIRK» Where there is no
be aware of other ERICSON conscience, there can
people’s existence.
Some good news:
According to my 16-year-old
son, people his age under-
stand the meaning of the
phrase, “It’s like Lucy pull-
ing the football away from
Charlie Brown.”
What personality quirk do
people share who have huge
Christmas displays on their
front lawn?
Like berries on the vine,
we all are plucked in the
ripeness of time.
Of all the vegetables, cel-
ery complains the loudest
when you eat it.
If you die at age 30, pu-
berty might have been your
midlife crisis.
If these last four years
have taught us anything it’s
that ignorance is power too.
Something you don’t
hear much these days: “I’m
mighty glad to hear Hank’s
working out for you.”
The junk food industry
did an amazing job to get a
major segment of our popu-
lation to start referring to its
products as “comfort food.”
What was our pre-existing
condition before we existed?
Don’t do the rhyme if you
can’t keep the time.
The intemet is a good
resource for fact-finding and
a bad resource for wisdom-
finding.
The newest coalition
threatening the United
States is the confederacy of
conspiracists.
Why is it that clams, ap-
parently, are happier than
be no justice.
I’ve never met any-
one who has a favorite Boliv-
ian composer.
The person who invented
the phrase “It only hurts
when I laugh” had hemor-
rhoids. ‘
To thrive in the material
world, learn how to not want
what you do not have, unless
what you do not have is food,
water and shelter. Other-
wise, don’t want, unless you
need a flashlight to find your
way out of the dark woods or
you need a new pen because
you’ve run out of ink in your
old pen. You know what?
Never mind about that not
wanting thing.
I like going to corn mazes
in the winter because it’s
way easier to find your way
around. ’
There is no nowhere be-
cause nowhere is always
some place to somebody.
All we have to fear is
aphorisms.
I gave up smoking ciga-
rettes. Now I just passively
fume.
He’s the most well-ad-
justed maladjusted person I
know.
As she walks into the art
gallery, she strokes her long
hair, caring for nothing with
an insouciant air.
Dirty old men were once
dirty young men.
His iron will is no match
for her steel nerves.
I Kirk Ericson can
be reached at kirk@
masoncounty.com
Editor, the Journal,
OK, Mr. Anvik, I looked up the meaning of
ad hominem, and I admit to some criticism of
you in my recent op-ed posting in the Journal.
It seems you took serious offense (as is ybur
right) to what was intended as gentle teasing.
For the record, I will continue to tease and you
may continue to be outraged, if you wish. As
for my being a pseudo-intellectual, I do take
offense. There’s nothing pseudo about it. I am,
in fact, the real thing, at least according to ‘
Arthur C. Clarke. I am a person who has been
educated beyond his intelligence and I make
no apology for it. As for your remarks about an
earlier post concerning events during a Black
Lives Matter rally, allow me to set the record
straight. I said nothing about antifa activities
because I was then, and still am, unaware of '
their presence that day. I also know next to
nothing about the movement and definitely
am not a sympathizer or an adherent. Videos
exist that cover the events of that Saturday.
None of them that I have seen show footage of
people identifying as antifa. What I did write
about is the fact that my wife and her peaceful
co-demonstrators for Black Lives Matter were
harassed and confronted by some other groups
including camo-clad wannabe military men
wearing helmets and body armor, armed with
military-style weapons, who openly menaced
peaceable demonstrators up close and personal.
There was also some confrontation by two
other groups, Trump supporters and the All
Lives Matter group with blue American flags
who followed the Black Lives Matter folksas
they walked peaceably along the street. The
confrontations, which were entirely one-sided,
became sufficiently intense that law enforce-
ment action was required to defuse things. An-
vik’s slur about my being AWOL denigrates me
along with all the dedicated men and women in
uniform who sacrificed their safety so that our
country can be secure. That is my story and I
am sticking with it.
Toby Kevin
Shelton
From a' Deplorable
Trumper
Editor, the Journal,
In a response to my letter title for right
thinkers published Nov. 26. You state this was
an allegation by a politician you are wrong on
both counts. It’s a video of good old Joe brag-
ging in front of a group. It’s in living color
about holding back a billion dollars if a pros-
ecutor was not fired for investigating his son
Hunter Biden. Then they laughed about it.
For those of you who only get your informa-
tion from the mainstream media, there is a
whole lot going on you are not aware of.
A Deplorable Trumper,
Ralph E. Aldrich
Shelton
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see LETTERS, page A-5
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