Opinion

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Reita Isaacs, Liberal

What you wanna bet this little gadget in my hand has already guessed what I’m going to be discussing: Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI for short. Mercy me. Yup, losing my train of thought even before getting started.

My life started a long, long time ago when I can remember helping chip the ice from the old ice box in our kitchen; then when I came home one afternoon, there was an electric refrigerator in it’s place that not only had a light when you opened the door, it had four medal ice cube trays with handles to break them apart. Guess how many times we opened that before “divine intervention” powered by Dad’s hand stopped us.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

This past weekend June 6 came and went without much fanfare, but it is a day that is almost as important as July 4.

June 6, 1944, was the day that the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy and started the process of liberating a continent under the control Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German Reich.

In my lifetime I have seen the less we know about Hitler and fascism the more we make references to it.

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

My space is smaller than usual these days.

When my husband, Peter, and I bought a condo and moved to the city, Peter said we needed a little more room.

“I want two bathrooms!” Peter said. I’d never had two bathrooms in my home as an adult, but I was certainly fine with the idea in principle. Peter wanted a study where, in the mornings, he could do what he calls his “brooding.” This is when Peter comes up with his finest ideas, I believe, although I can’t confirm this because it is also the time of day when he prefers to be left alone to drink his coffee.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

A famous line by Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the 1989 “Batman” movie is “Who you gonna trust?”

Ironically, the Joker goes on to say, “Me, I’m giving away free money.”

You would almost believe this line comes straight from Washington, D.C., or Topeka. As long as the “free” money is coming we should trust them, or so they would have us believe.