EDITOR’S NOTE: Sinatra, who was born on Dec. 12, 1915, in Hoboken, N.J., was the only child of Sicilian immigrants. “Sinatra was arguably the most important musical figure of the 20th century, his only real rivals for the title being Elvis Presley and the Beatles,†according to the website Spotify.com. Wikidepia.com add that Sinatra “is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold an estimated 150 million records worldwide.
Supreme Court justice called its first black ‘non-gender’
In the Bill Press (syndicated) column, “Supreme Court hearing: Bring on the clowns!†(that appeared recently in the Asheville Daily Planet), Bill Press erroneouly identified Supreme Court Select Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. as “the first African-American woman ever to serve on the nation’s highest court.â€
She is (actually) the first African-American non-gender to serve.
After graduation froim Harvard university and Harvard Law School, this "educated†African-American cannot give the definition of a “woman.â€
WILLIAM SYKES
Saluda
Abortion bans cause women to fear sex, which hurts men
What I feel is left unclear by both sides in the abortion debate is how abortion bans will hurt men.
Abortion bans cause women to fear sex, and beyond that, to fear men.
Such fears will certainly be very bad for what feminists call “sexual access,†which personally, at 57, is a declining priority for me; but beyond that, fear is going to trigger a bunch of very annoying security precautions like police taxes, big dogs, expensive locks, loud alarms etc.
I may care a bit less about incel status with age, but I still dislike dog bites, so I still have a personal stake in abortion rights and funding, a stake that is unrecognized by either side.
ALAN DITMORE
Leicester
Could it be that humanity is living life in a video game?
Scientists have proven that we are living in a video game!!!
Here is the proof!
Scientosts have long known that what separates a real world from a simulated world is that a real world does not have a hardware artifact in it.
Conversely, a simulated world does have a hardware artifact in it.
And scientists have recently discovered that our universe has a hardware artifact in it. This hardware artifact is the speed of light.
Discovering that our universe has a hardware artifact in the form of the speed of light is scientific proof that we live inside a simulation in the form of a video game.
What kind of video game is it?
Science hasn’t gotten that far and doesn’t know. But the conjecture is that we are role-playing characters in a role-playing video game like the Sims.
And what role-playing character do American’s play?
The role of a doofus!
What purpose do these video games have for our alien video games?
Scientists speculate that our alein games are disembodied minds.
Lacking a physical body, and emotion-regulating brain chemicals, they cannot feel desired emotions.
So they feel desired emotions — vicariously — by watching video games and by absorbing some of the emotions of the video game characters.
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville
‘Mickey Mouse should flee Florida,’ reader taunts
“I love the Bay, just like I love L.A.â€
— Snoop Dogg (from Katy Perry’s
“California Gurls†released in 2010)
June 2022 is going to be must-watch TV for all patriotic, anti-Putin Americans.
At this point, there should be no question about it whatsoever, but in case you still had any doubts at all about deranged, demonic Donald Trump’s terrible, treasonous and terroristic transgressions against our democratic republic, stay tuned to your TV sets starting June 9, 2022.
Expect Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to attempt to flee to Cancun again for a summer vacation. Hasta la vista, racist baby!
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the delusional dimwit who actually believes America wants its next president to be a book-burning fascist who is so weak and wimpy that he’s terrified of transsexuals, won the governorship in 2018 by only 30,000 votes.
The Disney Corporation employs 80,000 Floridians. You do the math! Best of luck running for president in 2024, Ron the con, after Florida votes ... you out in 2022.And by the way, current Florida racist Republican resident and failed fascist Fuhrer Donald Trump is 100 percent guilty of not only treason but pandemicide!
Strap Trump the traitor into Florida’s electric chair— “Old Sparky†— and fry that Leningrad liar until all that’s left is a burnt pile of blubbery grisly goo! (As opposed to the blubbering pile of Greedy Old Perverted G.O.P. goo that Trump was in life.)
If any state should be known as “the free state†in this “United†States of America, it is my home state of California. After all, one out of every eight Americans is a California resident for a reason! (A multitude of reasons, really.)
If necessary, the California crew of Mouseketeers will move every last piece of Disney World (including Epcot Center) back home from Orlando to California in the dead of night, just like the Mayflower movers surreptitiously relocated the NFL’s Colts franchise from Baltimore to Indianapolis back in 1984.
Except no one will feel sorry for Florida.Gov. DeSantis (R-Fla.) is a disgrace!
If you keep Ron DeathSantis in office, Florida, we Californians will be taking Disney back ASAP.
Just saying.
You don’t have to like it. We’ll do it anyways.
Diminutive dolt Ron DeSatanist (R-Fla.) says to anyone who will listen that he is no fan of democracy.No, Ron the con is a classic crackpot Castro Cuban conservative.
Just put a fake beard on his fascist face, a stogy between his lying lips, and some fatigues on his 5-foot frame and Gov. DeSantis would look — and act — just like a mini-Fidel Castro.
JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.
Biden’s garbled speech... and what he meant to say
You know that $900K professor sure doesn’t sound professorly!
That UPenn sure got donations, though mostly from China, for which it spiked over their chart line and couldn’t fit it in the graph since (U.S. President Joe) Biden became their “taught zero classes†$900K “professor.â€
You know, in a clue, my husband tells me — oddly enough — it isn’t Professor Plum here.
Instead, we have Professor Dumb and the White House — once again — is going to brief “ what the president of the United States meant to say….â€
You know, the only news reporter that nailed it today was the one who wrote a story headlined “America deserves better!â€
KRISTEN BURNS-WARREN
Cecil community of Haywood County
