Pen-pricks
• The Weather Channel said the Eastern Seaboard was hit by another round of winter weather this past week. Winter has everyone cranky. The weather forecast in Washington, D.C., today was Misty Snow and Drizzly Showers, and President Trump swore he’s never slept with either one of them.
• The University of Oklahoma named oil company executive James Gallogly the school president, succeeding the legendary former Senator David Boren. They say that you never forget your first true love and the OU campus is where I met mine. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about beer.
• Wall Street stocks fluctuated wildly all week due to revelations about social media sites selling user information. The investors don’t like it. Facebook stock is falling so fast that when Mark Zuckerberg dropped off his clothes at the dry cleaners this morning, they made him pay in advance.
Argus Hamilton is the host comedian at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and a speaker. His email address is argus@argushamilton.com.
Vehicles should be banned in the United States. Activists, students and friends, please join me in stopping car violence. To put it bluntly, cars kill. They kill with impunity and are a detriment to the safety of our schools, community and nation. There are 1.3 million car crashes per year in the U.S. That is about 3,287 per day with 50 million injured, and 40,000 killed each year. Approximately half of those are in the 15- to 44-year-old age group. One out of four crashes are caused by texting, mostly by 18- to 35-year-olds. You can look in the pages of this newspaper to read stories about crashes almost every day. Many of those crashes end in deaths. In 2016, Arizona had nearly 127,000 crashes with 856 fatalities. That is 2.6 persons killed in Arizona every day, including one in which a driverless car killed a pedestrian. Yes, cars kill.
Cars are already registered, and that has not caused the killing to stop. There is no constitutional provision stating persons have a right to drive. To stop the killing,
There is a simple solution to limit Russian election influence. Give Americans access to true, accurate news. Most of Russia’s influence comes from spreading information through our various media.
The “news media” should strictly label their information as news and nothing except news. News organizations and news journalists should report the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Pundits and opinion makers can express their views, that is their function. Voters can judge their work for themselves.
The American people need a reliable source of truth. Voters who know the truth need not be influenced by unreliable opinion, whatever its source.