And Purely Personal, After 18 years
Ironically, I’ll understand if readers turn to something else after just a minute or two of glancing at this.
Because today I’m bound to be Mushy Mawkish and Maudlin. Why? Well, the sentiment is derived from the fact that today, this working-man’s column is eighteen years old! The “anniversary” completes 18 years since Doreen and David allowed a non-lettered fellow to share his views in a newspaper that still towers above others in terms of journalistic integrity and standards, whatever its partisan position from time to time. I give thanks. But I’ll wax more personal in later paragraphs. And because I feel that drug-trafficking, cocaine-influenced economics, have compromised our morality and influence new values, I choose to re-cycle a favourite theme for this
