Today's Opinions

That noble document, the Constitution of the United States, is ofttimes praised and supposedly relied upon by the rabid, radical, right-wing, reactionary Republicans, yet, how often they do go on ad nauseam about some action they propose which is plainly and specifically outlawed by the said Constitution.
Take for instance the issuance of currency.
Article One, Section Eight, Clause Five, vests in the Congress the power to coin money.
And, Article One, Section Ten, Clause One, forbids any state from coining money or emitting bills of credit.

Over 50 years ago I interviewed with the school board for my first teaching position in a small town.
I was immediately told they did not allow any teachers their school to belong to a union.
Each teacher was to negotiate his or her own salary and that salary was to be kept in strict confidence.  
I was able to bargain them up to $1,800 a year!  
Later, I learned I was making more than the teacher who had been with them for 30 years, but who “didn't squabble over salary.”

It was Monday — the Monday after the spring-forward time change.

For me, that is typically the hardest Monday of the year.

I had come home, taken care of a few errands, then quickly succumbed to my overwhelming, but unusual need for a weekday nap.

I always seem to need a nap the Monday after the spring-forward time change, despite the lure of an extra hour of evening sunlight. Sometimes I miss Arizona, where the time never sprang forward or fell back.