The first time a country in the Middle East took Americans as prisoners, we built a navy from scratch and invaded the Barbary Coast to free the captives. Now, of course, we take a slightly different tack. We pay the pirates a billion dollars per person for the return of hostages.
“Sex in the workplace” is a topic of conversation that comes up way too often and it’s a hard thing for many employers to get a grip on. Locally, over the past 30 years of publishing The Advance, how many marriages have I seen break up because a spouse has been caught cheating? Too many to be sure.
Seriously, though, there is an uptick in COVID-19 cases in Hidalgo County and in other parts of the state as well, and who can rejoice over that?
Legal scholar, Alan Dershowitz, voted for Joe Biden in the last presidential election. He believes, furthermore, that Trump lost that election. He does not believe, however, that any of the indictments against Trump have merit.
Another birthday will arrive next Tuesday, and I’m thinking, thanks for another year on planet Earth, no matter how screwed up it may seem. I’m sure 600 years ago, when approximately 40 percent of babies never reached their first birthday, people were thinking the same thing: the world is a mess. Second verse, same as the first.
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