…the CEO of a major American corporation is murdered in cold blood on the street of New York City outside his hotel room. You’d think every American would be condemning such barbarity across the board, right?

Think again.

To see Americans – including so-called ‘educated’ people like college professors – actually celebrating the killing of an innocent man is one of the more deplorable things I’ve ever witnessed. But then to see actual ‘wanted dead or alive’ flyers be put up around the city with photographs of other CEO’s on them after the shooting pushes the level of moral depravity in question to an entirely different and totally unacceptable level.

It seems the alleged gunman was growing impatient with our ‘capitalist society’ and decided to take matters into his own hands – which clearly some among us not only have little issue with but support as well.

We all know our health insurance system is completely messed up. We all know that too many of those companies and the executives guiding them are getting way too rich as a result of that brokenness. But, there is no justification for gunning down another human being just because you think they make too much money or are part of some kind of system you disapprove of ever how corrupt it may be. Where does the line get drawn in that kind of view?

In my opinion, celebrating such, and especially going so far as to promote even more of it to happen, is a national security threat that should be treated as such swiftly and strongly by federal officials.

Say what you want about the money or capitalism or anything else involved, but when anyone celebrates or especially promotes the killing of innocent Americans that is a moral line we simply should not tolerate being crossed.

…when I was a kid, my grandmother had one of those aluminum Christmas trees that used a slowly turning color wheel with a floodlight shining through it to give the whole tree color. If memory serves me, the tree itself was mounted on a motorized stand that slowly turned the tree as well.

I don’t remember seeing a tree like that past 1970 or so. But as with so many other things, it seems those trees have become en vogue once again. A cursory check online shows they are selling for hundreds of dollars, and selling left and right at those prices.

What was old always finds a way to become new again, doesn’t it?

Wish it worked that way with people.

…don’t know if you’re keeping up with the downright weird drone situation happening of late up in New York and New Jersey, but it might be time to start paying attention.

For those not in the know, dozens of drones – some purportedly as large as an SUV – have suddenly shown up in the skies above The Empire and Garden States, and nobody seems to know where they are coming from or what they are doing.

The Pentagon has been saying that these crafts offer no threat to anyone, but then in the same breath say they really don’t know much about their origins. Needless to say folks up in that neck of the woods are understandably nervous about it.

I don’t know about New Jersey, but I can just about guarantee that with all the duck and dove hunters down here, you won’t be seeing such things flying for very long around in South Georgia.

…if you want to feel like a kid again, make the time to watch one of your favorite Christmas shows from way back. It’s guaranteed to stir all kinds of memories.

…speaking of stirring all kinds of memories, kudos once again to everyone who had a hand in making Victorian Christmas another great success. Not every community has several events over a year to shine and show off, but ours does, and then some.

And it must be said that there’s something about Victorian Christmas and the weather being actually chilly that works as well as a cold morning on your front porch and sipping a warm cup of coffee. Lord knows we have had all kinds of weather associated with it – I remember one year parking my truck there behind what was then the library (now the Flowers Museum) and a storm literally picked up a Port-a-Potty and deposited it on my hood.

Dressing up in all of the layers of clothes it takes to look actually Victorian does not get along well with 75+ degree weather.

…and finally, don’t look now but 2025 now is looming just over two weeks away. It’s time to be thinking about those New Year’s resolutions you want to make to start the year…you know, to give yourself plenty of time to figure out how to break them.