by Doug Thompson | Nov 27, 2020 | Coronavirus, Musings
No Christmas parade for Floyd County this year. Plans for a “reverse parade” where the floats and displays would be parked in the lots at the high school and elementary facility so parade “watchers” could drive by and see them were cancelled...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 25, 2020 | Musings
After years of claiming nothing is wrong with purported lax financial oversight and rampant misuse of member funds, the National Rifle Association’s tax filing to the Internal Revenue Service for 2019 admits widespread abuse and fraud by top executives,...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 23, 2020 | Musings
Trying to be thankful on this Thanksgiving week is difficult, to say the least. We spend most of our time at home, isolated from friends, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. When I do go out on assignments for The Floyd Press, it is often into the unknown among others...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 21, 2020 | Musings
When Barack Obama’s election in 2008, I guessed all presidents of the United States will be younger than me. Bill Clinton was two years older. Then Donald Trump upset all norms in Washington and became a president older than my age. In January, his successor...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 18, 2020 | Coronavirus, Musings
The Commonwealth of Virginia added more than 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 Coronavirus for the third straight day, Floyd County’s case count jumped by 10, a record increase that brings the local case count to 296. Wednesday’s daily report from the Virginia...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 13, 2020 | FUBAR, Musings
A Norse myth says the fear of Friday the 13th began when 12 gods gathered for a dinner party and failed to invite the trickster god, Loki, who arrived as the 13th guest and killed Balder with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. “Balder died, and the whole Earth got dark....
