Spring has sprung, tepidly at first, but the warmth is sure to follow.
At least that's what I think.
The backtracking by Jeb Bush of his initial support for the original language in the recent idiotic anti-gay Indiana law shows that while he's willing to run as far to the right as he needs to in order to win the Republican nomination, he will make a mad dash back to the center if he makes it to the final.
At least that's what I think.
Talking about Indiana, not one of the many potential Republican candidates for president took the opportunity to publicly criticize the original language in the bill until after Gov.
Mike Pence and the right-wing Indiana legislature backed down, which was a huge lost opportunity for one of them.
At least that's what I think.
If there is a heaven, and former legendary talk-show host Jerry Williams is there, I've got a feeling that he will be less than pleased if the recently deceased Dr. John D. States, the father of the seatbelt law, is also allowed to join him in the celestial afterlife.
At least that's what I think.
I am getting really old when it occurs to me that it's not the death of Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of former Beatle John Lennon that shocks me, but rather that she could have really been 75 when she died.
At least that's what I think.
Just when I thought there might be a ray of sunlight in the political universe after the loathsome former U.S. Rep.
Michele Bachmann left politics to take, amongst other important projects, a role in upcoming TV movie Sharknado 3, along comes the equally loathsome Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas to fill her shoes.
At least that's what I think.
The response to the comprehensive report on both the good and the bad that was done by the first responders after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, proves that the public is much more able and willing to accept a balanced report than most in elective office too often believe.
At least that's what I think.
With respect, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller's new book, which purports to prove she wasn't a major reason that much of the Washington establishment and the press went along like lemmings into the fools mission we now call the Iraq war, is going to change very, very few minds.
At least that's what I think. When the history of the late 20th century and early 21st century is written, one of the great heroines of that period will be Sarah Brady, the fearless and luminous founder of the anti-gun group Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, who died of cancer this month.
At least that's what I think.
To me, a far worse punishment for the recently convicted Boston Marathon bomber is not the death penalty, but spending every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year of every decade for the next seven decades in a maximum security prison on 23-hour lockdown.
At least that's what I think.
The Red Sox won't finish in first place in the American League East this year, but they won't finish last either.
At least that's what I think.
The spike in heroin deaths may be why so many Americans think spending even one second of precious law-enforcement time chasing recreational pot smokers is a joke.
At least that's what I think.
Of all the people who deserve to go to jail, few are as deserving as 28year-old Kevin Bollaert of San Diego who recently was sentenced to 18 years in jail for creating and running a so-called revenge porn site that contained thousands of images of naked women submitted by rejected boyfriends and former spouses.
At least that's what I think.
Finally, three cheers for the tireless work done by Secretary of State John Kerry in attempting to make the world a safer place for my children and my grandson.
At least that's what I think.