I often write letters to the editor, they sometimes actually print them. I usually write because of something I read that was either really stupid or really smart - or sometimes they are a combination of both. Anyway, these are a couple of my May 2020 letters one of which was printed and the other is still to be determined. First one is about the Supreme Court considering a case regarding Electors in the Electoral College (one of the greater mistakes in the Constitution.) SCOTUS and Faithless Electors There is some irony to the Strib news story about the SCOTUS case,the "unfaithful electors." There are many misconceptions about the electoral college. Among them is that electors are somehow associated with political parties. There is no mention of parties in the constitution and, in fact, the founding fathers hoped there wouldn’t be any parties. Fools! And no, the Electoral College (not it’s real name) wasn’t created to help the small states or protect us from big sta
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No Small Government Conservatives in a Foxhole I think we all know that there are going to be many changes in our society and work lives due to the coronavirus. Some seem obvious like more people regularly working from home, most people continuing to use online delivery for a lot of household items and maybe online education and telemedicine will become more mainstream. These will all have large impacts on the economy and depending on your job, some good and some bad. Also on our personal lives - hello frugality, savings accounts and family dinners. There are certain to be some unexpected changes as well. There is a famous saying in the military that there are no atheists in a foxhole, meaning that when one’s life is on the line even the most devout non-believers suddenly become believers. I wonder if a version of that will occur in our regard to the government after this mess. Perhaps we will find that there are no small government conservatives in a pandemic foxhole