Missouriana

* Anyone who last January wished for warmer temperatures had either lost all sense of reality or any capacity for remembering Missouri weather in August.

* No wonder members of Congress are so often moody, cranky and obstreperous when the only vacation time they get is in the month of August.

* Prosperity is a relative word which politicians define as paying out income tax refunds while having to borrow money to pay for them.

* One of the reasons the U.S. is reluctant to enter into any important treaties is the memory of what our country did to native Indians after they signed one with us.

* No wonder today’s children are happy: they don’t have to shell out their allowances to pay for the indifference, neglect and apathy of their parents.