Today's Opinions

This week winter is officially over. I couldn’t be more excited as spring is in the air. The signs of change are everywhere. Daffodils have been popping up all over the place decorating the landscape with their brilliant shades of yellow. Cars are coated in the murky yellowish-green haze of pollen.

Gone are winter hats and scarves—well, almost. Restaurants and businesses around the beach towns have reopened for the season.

For everyone planning to run in the St. Patrick’s Day weekend Lucky Leprechaun race in Ocean Isle Beach this coming Saturday morning, I would like to say—good luck.

If my own luck as a runner had held out, perhaps I would be joining you. But for now I must sit on the sidelines, or more likely at home swigging caffeine and listening to “Car Talk,” entertaining and plotting my next fitness strategy that apparently doesn’t include a race any time in the near future.

I tried. I really did.

To the editor:
The Oscars, Fallon and Letterman shows. Might Ringling Brothers Circus be their next display?
The Obamas detest the White House and Oval Office. And here’s why. These settings represent the historically respected images of the freest, most important, powerful and benevolent country in the history of the world, which from the Obamas’ perspective represent rather the pinnacle of America’s racial bias and international exploitation.