Don’t miss the political party

Just looking for clues at the scene of the crime, it’s Monday Mail.

Life’s been good

Today’s opening is from the Joe Walsh song “Life’s Been Good,” because it’s all about living the high life, and that’s what the holidays are all about.

Happy holidays

Here’s a comment posted to a Nov. 20 column making fun of the nonstop analyses to which we’ve been subjected since the presidential election. It came from Stephen Kolbjonshus:

Sounds like you voted for Hillary Clinton like the rest of you liberals at the Ledger and this nothing but venting your frustration. Good, maybe the Ledger could do some real investigative reporting and uncover all of the graph and corruption in Columbus! That would mean that you would have to stop corroborating and colluding with the local politicians. That would upset the staff because they wouldn't be invited to their Christmas party. To you status is more meaningful and comes at a cost to your editorial staff and to the community's detriment! Too bad you are the only show in town!

Dear Stephen:

You mean you don’t get invited to the local politicians’ Christmas parties? Oh man, that’s too bad! You’re really missing out. They have free steak and lobster and liquor and cocaine and strippers, all paid for with your tax money, as far as you know.

Last year the councilors had a dirty dancing contest. I hear this time they’re planning a lingerie-only mannequin challenge.

F-book

Here’s a comment posted to last week’s column on erasing asinine Facebook posts from your so-called “friends” instead of wasting your time arguing with them. It’s from “Round Man Of Sound”:

They ought to develop a soap opera out of Facebook.... Wait, it already is! Scratch that idea; move on!

Dear Round Man:

Boy, that’s the truth, isn’t it? Sometimes you think people with whom you’ve otherwise lost touch just had a lot of drama in their lives when they were younger, and surely by now they’ve outgrown all that. Then you see their Facebook posts and realize that no, some folks just live that way.

Dog alert

On a serious note, Shelia Huffman sent this message to the newsroom Sunday:

On Friday I and my grandson, William, were on our way back from North Carolina; we had picked up a motor home we had purchased. At the exit off the loop that goes to 431 on the side of the exit there was a box of food someone had thrown out, and there was a tiny fawn colored chihuahua eating from the box. It had a collar on. I have four chihuahuas that I love more than I can say, so my heart immediately contracted. Being in the huge vehicle (and not being terribly comfortable about that), I pulled over to the side of the exit. I told William we could not just leave that dog. He said, logically, of course, that we COULD NOT take it home (four already), and I said of course not, but maybe we could find its owner. So he got out and went toward the dog. When he got close, it took off running and went across the lane of traffic and toward the four or six lanes up the hill, so he came back to the motor home.... I've thought of this dog constantly since we arrived home. My point in this is that if it had been reported missing, you might could let the owners know where we saw it. It was a terrible place for a dog to be loose. The cold weather worries me terribly about it also....

Dear Sheila:

An area Facebook group has a page called “Lost Pets of Lee/Russell & Muscogee County” to which I posted that. Thanks.

This story was originally published December 11, 2016 at 6:36 PM with the headline "Don’t miss the political party."