Opinion

For many years now, it seems that most people have excused almost every lapse from everyday standards of common sense and mature behavior by saying that the individual is a victim of something. Fail a test, blame the teacher. Smoke cigarettes all your life and when the cigarettes give you lung cancer, blame the cigarettes. Someone gets shot and some blame the gun. Someone has poor nutrition and some blame Burger King. Scapegoats! Scapegoats! Individual irresponsibility avoiding responsibility.

The U.S. Census Bureau has released is sub-county population estimates from April 2010 to July 2020. That includes population estimates for the 1,200 incorporated places in Texas.

Restaurants and grocery stores across the country are experiencing shortages of certain food items. This has resulted in smaller portions and in some cases an increase in prices. This has happened for a number of different but often overlapping reasons.