Opinion

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

There’s no doubt that I’ve made a post or two on social media I should have edited.

We’ve all said or done something that we’ve regretted, but social media makes it so much easier.

I have debates online with those who see the world differently than I see it, and I don’t have a problem conversing with the other minded.

But it can become fatiguing to constantly rehash the same old issues over and over again, and that can sometimes lead to a comment that isn’t as kind as it should be.

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

My niece Isabelle is leaving for Argentina, and I don’t know how I’m going to stand it.

Isabelle is an adult, although I don’t know how that is possible, because I remember clearly the day she was born, on an extraordinarily cold day 22 years ago, and surely, I can’t be that old. I arrived at the hospital with a bouquet of flowers and a Mylar balloon that had gone flat because it could not stay inflated at below-zero temperatures. But Isabelle thrived.

I like to think that I have a lot in common with Isabelle, but this is wishful thinking, because Isabelle is a more capable version of me than I could ever be.

GUEST COLUMN, Kurt Schlichter, Townhall.com

Supposedly, the tiresome comedy stylings of Gavin Newsom – he’s the equivalent of a Wednesday night prop comic opener down at the Gooberville Giggle Works – have thrust him into the forefront of the Democrat race for the 2028 nomination. What a sad and pathetic state of affairs that is. He’s trying to claim the Fighter Lane. You see, he fights by hiring a couple of they/them mediocrities to run his social media account, pumping out an endless series of tweets that are nearly as funny as leprosy. They are directed at Trump, who ignores them; if a nitwit tweets in the forest, does it make a sound? This is fighting in the eyes of the Democrat activist class; this is pathetic in the eyes of normal people.

GUEST COLUMN, Star Parker

The much-publicized exchange between Bed Bath & Beyond chairman Marcus Lemonis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a lesson for the whole country.

We shoppers look back fondly on the marketing acumen that, starting with one store in 1971, built Bed Bath & Beyond into a retail giant that once had 365 stores nationwide.

The shopping experience there was always great fun — the basics of homemaking at great prices plus innovative trinkets that were always attention-getters at prices attractive enough to get you to buy what you weren’t even thinking about when you walked into the store.