After a few years a the job you sometimes just draw a blank now and then. I certainly don't envy those who look down at that blank space every day or two and have to write something to fill it. Then, too, there are those who believe they are providing readers with deathless prose and eternal truths. The real truth is that most editors or columnists really don't know much more about the affairs of the day than anyone else. About the only difference is that we get paid to say something.
Some writers get a real intellectual complex at times.
If I ever detect such a feeling coming on, I begin to think how I would go about balancing the national budget, and I can assure you that brings me down to earth in a real hurry. By the time you read this, the president will have made his State of the Nation address, and I certainly hope that he and the Congress have a better idea of what to do about the deficit than I do. Pickles get a whole week. More and more it appears that the necessary steps are being taken to get the Holbrook Hospital open again, and that is indeed good news for the entire area. Certainly we need to have the hospital back in business.