April snow coincides with Easter

April showers bring May flowers. What about April snow? 

It is not your imagination, if you think the wind has been especially harsh over the recent past. Like even during winter. What saves us from climbing the walls is our electronic gadgets for entertainment. So engrossing is all of that, if you're the attorney general of South Dakota, you can end up in a mess of trouble. Amazing how people forget how much power they are wielding when they're at the wheel of a motor vehicle. Distracted driving ranks right up there with excess alcohol now. 

When I was young, entertainers steered us toward being amused by people who had "one too many." A cop might come up to the window of your vehicle, late on a Friday or Saturday night, and say "are you sure you're in good enough shape to get home?" Delivered with a smile actually. 

Do people still use their left foot to change their headlights from "bright" to "dim?" I almost never drive at night any more. 

So we're in mid-April and what the heck is going on? Fresh snow arriving, and patches of snow all around on the Saturday of Easter weekend. Schools are very clever as they became closed for Friday but do not say it's because of "Good Friday." They call it "spring break." They aren't fooling anyone. We know what's going on. 

Oh my God, schools must be becoming desperate to try to work in "makeup games" for spring sports. The delays must be worse than usual this year. But it always happens. "Postponed" is a common refrain. There has to be a solution for this. Why not give all the students a break from sports? How about just an intramural season? Could be indoors. But this listing of postponements gets discouraging. 

And then when games start, weather is still uncomfortable for the fans, who show up often in small numbers, can look a little rag-tag. We can assume it's almost all parents in many cases. They are showing the proper dedication, to be sure. But isn't there a better way? 

Can anyone please inform me: does MACA softball have access to Big Cat Stadium in spring? It ought to. If not, then I'd say the powers-that-be with the public school screwed up. I have written recently about this - someone could clarify for me. 

Big Cat is fantastic for the fans for softball. I have been there. Should I even mention the "softball complex" again? Why do I repeatedly do this? The people who run this town are going to do what they're going to do. In the case of the City of Morris, it's just to shed money to the softball interests without any input into how the project is planned or carried out. A city councilperson has himself made this clear to me. "Our only involvement is monetary." So (my words) "Don't blame us for anything." 

Pushing blame elsewhere is a political instinct. So I admire our U.S. president of the 1950s for being a contrarian on this. "Ike" said he would always accept blame while giving credit elsewhere. He had the balls to command the Allies at Normandy, so I defer to him. He's the polar opposite of our president from 2016 to 2020. 

Speaking of whom, I find it tragic how he has affected the Christian faith in America. Can the faith recover from this? Our former president tried riding piggy-back on the Christian faith, when I doubt he has had a serious religious thought all his life. He is nothing more than a "transactional" person, being obsessed with himself. But he has transformed Christianity in America. 

For that I think we need to blame the bulk of Christian parishioners who took his lead, bought what he had to sell. So now we see a totally crazed "Christian right" in America, drawing so much of our attention all the time. And this disturbing wave seems to be growing. At some point, our public institutions like our schools need to separate themselves from everything "Christian." 

Senator Rick Scott, FL

If you're a Christian, must you follow the lead of Republicans like Rick Scott of Florida who is suggesting that Social Security be "sunsetted?" What does that have to do with religious faith? Worship the Republican Party? Worship Trump? Republicans are calculating to get "Christians" behind them. It has worked surprisingly well so far. How much further can the trend continue? 

Christianity in the past was, if nothing else, a sort of benign home base for everything that was considered good or proper. Care for the poor. "I am my brother's keeper." Now you're called a socialist or communist if you talk like that. 

People who get Social Security had better start thinking about how they'll get along without it. 

Have a chocolate bunny for Easter. Go to YouTube and call up the concluding scene from the movie "Life of Brian."

- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com