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Sound Off for June 16, 2017

Speaking of distractions ...

If the problem of distracted driving needs to be addressed, perhaps the city should ban those big, garish, technicolor, moving, changeable billboards.

Intervention might be necessary

If you or someone you love is still watching television news, please consider having a mental health evaluation. Help is available.

Imagine them together

I am a practicing Christian, but I must say to you pro-Trump evangelicals, “Donald Trump and Jesus Christ” is best described by grammar standards as an oxymoron. Be ashamed.

Intolerably offensive

That Kathy Griffin … I just listened to her on TV. I can’t believe there are people like that in the world.

View from the right

As George Will says, “Today, conservatism is soiled by scowling primitives (guess who?) whose irritable gestures lack mental ingredients.”

Out of our hands

You cannot change climate change.

This story was originally published June 15, 2017 at 10:00 AM with the headline "Sound Off for June 16, 2017."

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