While we’re talking change…
“If you don’t count pigs who know Mary Kay…”
Huntsville Times columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson follows this bon mot with a list of some “common sense” changes:
Make education laws universal in all 50 states. Make kids go to school, the way they used to. Instigate a strict, uniform set of rules for the ever-growing number of home-schooling parents. Currently, some states register and test home-schoolers. Others allow willy-nilly, anyone-can-teach-anything approach to educating youth. Decide, once and for all, if education is imperative…
Nationalize health care…
Disallow tax-exemption status for churches, a change that would get rid of more charlatans and television bandits than anything else you could do…
Reinstate the draft so that poor young people aren’t the only ones who stand to lose when politicians start stupid wars.
Those of you who still read The Huntsville Times know that this type of Leftie blather permeates The Times. For those who don’t read the Times any more, note that this column appeared not in the Editorial section, but in the ‘Life & Leisure’ section, beside ‘Hints from Heloise’ (you can’t make this stuff up).
Huntsville Times editor Kevin Wendt, in an introductory column, said “One concern many readers have already voiced to me is their feeling the opinion pages lean to the left.”
Kevin, it’s not just the “opinion pages”… Just about every section of The Huntsville Times is rife with liberal twaddle, from the in-the-tank for Obama Associated Press “news” articles to the Life section.
Note that Johnson’s column was not available online from the Times, but I found the same column at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
UPDATE: It should be no surprise that circulation of the Huntsville Times has been dropping even as Huntsville is growing:
The Huntsville Times’ circulation has fallen 1.5 percent during the same time (2006-2008), although it saw a 0.006 percent increase between 2007 and 2008.
Huntsville needs a good newspaper, and deserves a better one.
In last Sunday’s paper one of their columnists (Ricky Thomason) called Bush the “First Bozo.” I’ve read Thomason’s hapless columns for quite a while and he has no grounds to be calling anyone else a bozo.
As a responsible and quite capable homeschooling parent I resent Mrs. Woman w/ Two Last Names’ comments. Am I surprised? Not at all. It’s the typical leftist tripe spewed by socialists on all manner of issues – “big gubmint is the answer.” Other than the military, I challenge the socialist workers of the world, Mrs. Woman w/ Two Last Names included, to name ONE thing that big gubmint does better than the private sector. Just one – and have facts to back it up.
BTW, drivel like this from “local” newspapers is precisely why I quit subscribing to rags like the H’ville Times, B’ham Compost / News & the Decatur Red Daily. When I desire to read their screeds, well, never mind, it’s too infrequent to matter.