Opinion

With the warmer weather, I’ve been enjoying the opportunity to explore more of the town on walks with the dog.

I’m an old man but not utterly clueless and as I hear music come out of the ceiling, I hear rap and hip-hop become monosyllabic, a string of shouts and macho mumbles with machinelike percussion, a sort of anti-music, and then along comes a young woman who sings actual stories in whole sentences to a real melody and you have Taylor Swift and she takes over the music business and becomes the most famous person on earth, bigger than Vladimir Putin.

Some may recall my prior stories of my first-born child, who serves as an active duty member of the Army in upstate New York.

Before it dies, I want to come out in favor of the hyperloop project in Minnesota to create underground tubes in which people would travel in capsules propelled by electromagnetic force at speeds up to 700 mph.

We’ve maybe all become a little spoiled this winter with the lack of snow.