HAVE YOU PUT your foot into the netherworld of artificial intelligence (AI)? If you are on the internet, use social media in any form, follow specific political party palaver, or get Continue Reading →
Category Archives: And George Smith Said…..
Think you can stop your too-young daughter from getting married? Think again…..
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IMAGINE THIS: You have a daughter named Jenny. She is in love with Harold and wants to get married. Harold is 24. Jenny is 16. If that’s not enough to cause Continue Reading →
George is a poet and didn’t know it; or, he isn’t and doesn’t know it. At any rate, a different approach to commentary straight from Bedspring Ridge, Arkansas…..
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New year: Trying something new In writing more than 7,000 newspaper opinion columns in more than 50 years, this is the only one ever written in free-verse poetry form. It is Continue Reading →
Trump is a bad dream. We need to replace that nightmare with dreams based on love and common sense
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Trump is a bully, a hater and an enemy of our Republic. What more does any sane, thinking person need to know? I KNOW YOU dream, just as I do. I Continue Reading →
Bigly Truisms as seen from the porch of BedSpring Ridge…
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An Arkansas hillbilly (oh, and accomplished journalist and thinker) weighs in with a look at the New Year and Donald Trump BIGLY TRUISMS to start off 2024….. Let’s start off 2024 Continue Reading →
Good-bye to 2023 and some really bad brand, and hello to 2024 when….well, who knows?
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The name game played by folks in all walks of life – from scientists to politicians to activists to reactionary and wrong-headed activists, all can be disconcerting. Being politically correct Continue Reading →
Answer me this: Why do so many Americans think we are being swamped by unchecked rises in crime when……actually we are not
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Sensational media, social media mask the data from the FBI. We are not being taken over by a swarm of violent criminals. It’s time to pay attention to where we Continue Reading →
There is no “right” in the Middle East and other bloody conflicts; There is plenty of “right” in the Republican Party but it’s not a good “right”
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We’ve lost sight of how to treat people. Period. As for the far-right Republicans, they seem to be suffering “death by a thousand paper cuts.” Sick and tired of being Continue Reading →
George takes another stroll down headline lane…
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The world comes to us as headlines….. It is a worldwide truism that many people interested in news simply read or glance at the headlines and then decide which stories Continue Reading →
George is mad. You should be, too.
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It’s time to face up to the death and violence being done by guns in the United States. No more thoughts and prayers. It’s time for some action, at long Continue Reading →