Lots of exciting action in prep sports as we arrive at mid-February.
Here's a heads-up to check my "Morris of Course" blog to read about: MACA girls basketball game against Montevideo, and MAHACA wrestling dual versus Alexandria. The MACA girls lost, the wrestlers won. Here's the link and thanks:
Storm 5, Prairie Centre 4
The Benson ice was the site for a very hard-fought hockey contest between the MBA Storm boys and Prairie Centre. Overtime appeared to be looming. But Brady Pederson of the Storm got the puck in the net with less than a minute left. This spelled a 5-4 triumph for the Storm. Action was on Tuesday at Benson Civic Center.
The Prairie Centre Stars made a statement shortly into the third period as their Eli Fletcher scored to put them up 4-3. But then Zach Wrobleski struck for the Stars at 9:20. So the score is tied.
Chris Danielson worked in goal for our Storm. He picked up 17 saves.
Pederson, Charlie Goff and Ryan Tolifson each came through with a goal and an assist. Bryce Lehman added three assists to the winning mix. For the Stars, Owen Christians scored two goals. Their goalie was Carter Holman and he performed 40 saves. Our Storm sports a 12-8 W/L mark. The Stars are 5-16.
America past its greatness?
A sea change in American culture? Indicator maybe that we are past our greatness? So a question: how can schoolteachers anywhere discipline their kids on basic conduct? This I ask after what developed with the State of the Union address. I mean the hecklers. This would have been unheard-of when I was young.
What is all this careening toward? I mean, first with the January 6 near-insurrection and now this? Are we heading toward appreciable fatalities in the name of political ideology?
But I don't really think it's ideology. That sets the rabble rousers up as being way too sophisticated. The rabble rousers are simply bothered by government, wish it would go away. The people who protest at school board meetings aren't really concerned with the issues they talk about. Those issues are just an excuse for them to assert what they really want: no more government-funded education.
This sentiment is not totally new. But it's out there in such a corrosive way now. We can fear that the January 6 travesty could expand to more worrisome, more widespread levels beyond D.C.
But, what are schoolteachers to do when they demand basic etiquette and courtesy among kids, imploring them to behave and respect others? I mean, when our nation's elected political leaders are setting no example in this regard?
When I was young, all teachers talked about equality, democracy and the common good as if we could all get on the same page with the principles. Can that even be articulated any more?
All the bad stuff could have been tamped down if Donald Trump had just been indicted for something, anything. Maybe the history books will point out someday that this was the catalyst for things really going bad. Will the history books be written in a nation still called "America?" Will something new have sprung forth, perhaps from the sick dreams of the MAGA crowd? Could America become "Balkanized?" A part of Oregon wants to secede and become "East Idaho."
Trump appears to have gotten rid of Ron DeSantis by pointing out the latter's inappropriate conduct with high school girls. Can't we at least talk issues a little? Then again, maybe DeSantis has truly done something bad. Meanwhile another potential challenger to Trump, Nikki Haley, was in the crosshairs of Tucker Carlson's Fox News program. Carlson had a guest who trashed Hailey because you can always find someone to trash a well-known politician.
However, I thought Haley was a conservative Republican governor. Ought to be the kind of person praised on Fox News. Remember not long ago when we heard the Murdochs were drifting away from Trump? Hints like that are never borne out in the "conservative" world. Trump plows forward and he's going to dominate our thoughts again over the foreseeable future. Then he'll get elected again.
The Koch organization has announced it plans to try to stop Trump. Koch is ultra-conservative of course. Koch plans to pour money into its efforts. Koch could have saved all that money if a prosecutor or two had just indicted Trump on something by now. Trump would finally be hamstrung. But it never happens. It is "Groundhog Day" in a nightmarish way.
I did not watch the State of the Union. Partly it was because I knew what was going to happen: "bullies disrupting the class." Why can't the plurality of U.S. citizens just insist that all of this madness end?
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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