Guest Commentary
This week will be better
Mack Hall

Much of the news this last week was terrible indeed - Alec Baldwin, for instance, was still on American soil.

However, there is some good news to report:

The Rutger's women's basketball team declined to meet with H.R.H. Princess Hillary, politely citing a need to study. Hooray for students who show some class, and who refuse to be used by politicians!

And along much the same line, the student government of Virginia Tech asked all the reporters to go away.

The Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-4, disapproved of sucking the brains out of babies.

Fidel Castro is still alive, and so are our hopes that this mass-murderer might someday face justice.

We're still alive too. The first Earth Day in April of 1970 warned of the coming New Ice Age which would destroy us all. Whew! Thank goodness we all started using those squiggly light bulbs.

The seal hunt off Newfoundland has gone well, despite many boats being trapped in pack ice caused, no doubt, by global warming. With a good seal season, families who make a traditional living from the sea will continue to enjoy such frivolities as food, clothing, and shelter.

Senator Edwards, one of The People, looks very nice with his new $400 haircut.

In Kentucky a former Miss America, Venus Ramey, 82, shot out a thief's tires and held the wretch at gunpoint until the police arrived. She's a red-head, of course.

In my little town a number of school athletes - known to the national news and to Hollywood as bullying jocks - used their strength and their hearts to take special-needs children on the mechanical rides at the annual Magnolia Festival. That's the sort of thing Real Men and Real Women do.

Still not convinced it was a good week? Just remember this: your kid did not hide out in his room fondling guns and feeling sorry for himself.

Life is good.

Mack Hall is a resident of Kirbyville