Editorial

“But I’ll keep workin’/As long as my two hands are fit to use …” – Merle Haggard

The government says inflation rose 8.5 percent in March compared to last year — the the worst it has been in 40 years, since the bad old days of 1981.

It seems like every week since spring rolled into Jeff Davis Parish, there’s been a threat of severe weather. While many may wish for a return to sunnier days, there are still benefits to staying inside during the daily afternoon showers.

For the relative few paying attention, it seems impossible to keep up with the violence against Christians happening in Nigeria. A priest is killed; people are kidnapped; it’s a place of unrelenting terror. I’m glad we care to light buildings in the colors of the Ukrainian flag here in the United States, but Ukrainians are far from the only people suffering in the world today.

If you could be the proverbial “fly on the wall,” what Biblical event would you most like to witness?

Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars — you could live in a cave and still know about this, and be subject to the blizzard of opinions about it. This incident exposed the depths of my phone addiction as I clicked on link after link to articles that had just about zero impact on anyone’s life. The media frenzy was a bit like a siren warning us all to step away from our screens.