No five-star lunches
Other Voices
Mitch Clarke
      I suppose all of us, when we were kids, complained about the food in the lunchroom. It just seems to be one of those rites of childhood. Almost everybody has a story about the "Mystery Meat" their lunch ladies served. It was usually some kind of meat - I always assumed, but could never prove, th...
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Why'd my son have to die?
Mumbles
Billy Fleming
      While our thoughts are on our veterans this week, the following email message making the rounds is pretty powerful... A mother asked the President... "Why did my son have to die in Iraq?" A mother asked the President... "Why did my son have to die in Saudi Arabia?
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Found a peanut
All That's Fit to Print
Brenda Wall
      Mothers invented the worst case scenario. I realized this over the weekend as I watched a news report. Actually, it wasn't much news but mostly conjecture, mostly what could have happened if the stars were aligned a little bit differently at the moment whatever event it was occurred.
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LETTER
      Dear editor, I ran across this heart touching poem titled "A Dog Sits Waiting" which was written by Kathy Flood. She is a big supporter of animal rights and is against cruelty to animals. No truer words were ever written.
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Trouble beneath the sheets
Alex McRae
      If you need more proof the end is near just cruise over to Cullman, Ala., where things are so screwed up the Ku Klux Klan is at war with itself. This is a shocker for those who thought the Klan was a like-minded bunch of crossburning morons. Apparently, the Klan is attempting to appeal to a wider...
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Why don't you people understand?
Shipp's Georgia
Bill Shipp
      By now you have probably figured out that the mussels in Apalachicola Bay are really red herrings. Georgia officials raising Cain about federal agencies releasing "our" water to nourish Florida's shellfish is no more than a diversion. The fuss is designed to make us believe that the Gold Dome cro...
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