Terry's Take

Well, here we go. I've been writing columns for my local paper for a year or so but their ability to find space to publish my stuff has been sort of hit and miss so I'm putting myself on my own schedule....which means there won't be any schedule at all.



In short, I'm gonna write when I feel like writing....and that's fairly often....about a wide variety of topics which will have one central theme: Common Sense. I know, you thought common sense was dead. It's not. It just got really disgusted with what's been going on for the past couple of decades and dropped out of sight. Trouble has been that most are too lazy to look for it or too dumb to recognize it when they stumble across it, or even ask where the hell it's gone to. Some guy even wrote a book about it claiming it was dead.



Fair warning. Most of my stuff will have something to do with government at all levels. Why? Well, I both like and hate government and I couldn't possibly come up with a more fertile field of targets to openly criticize. That's why we have the First Amendment to our Constitution, you know. Our founding fathers wanted the people....that's you and me....to be able to openly speak critically about our government without fear of being persecuted or prosecuted for dong so. The astonishing mockery that our courts have made of that simple but noble thought serves ample notice that "common sense" does not infect most of our learned jurists. In fact, it makes me wonder if they can actually read. At the very least, when I think of a court, I automatically recall one of Henry Fonda's lines in the movie "In Harm's Way". Fonda was portraying Admiral Chester Nimitz during WWII, and remarked that, "Someone once said that even on the most exalted throne on earth, we are still seated on nothing but our own arse.". I think all judges should be required to memorize that line.



Now, I don't care who chimes in and posts comments or questions to this blog but if you don't see your comment, it's because I didn't like it because it was foul, obscene, irrelevant, hateful, or just flat factually wrong. So much for your freedom of speech. Don't like it? Start your own blog.
So, this will be a place for adult, logical, and fact-based dialogue and discourse.



So who's my hoped for audience? Well, primarily northwestern Washington State. Specifically, Skagit County and greater Anacortes residents but I'll get into national politics and world affairs from time to time so I guess that opens the door for everyone, and everyone is welcome as long as you act like a grownup.