Andy's Blog
Latter-Day Saints’ Political Gaffes
Published in The Covington News ~ February 8, 2020. Studies and polls have confirmed that in the United States a good number of people do not trust national journalists. Well, here in Newton County I am about as local as you can get. Heck, y’all know I ain’t even a journalist; I’m just a small...
The Danger of Changing Our Poetry
Published in The Covington News ~ August 17, 2019. A couple of weeks ago I posted this cartoon by my friend Man Martin on Facebook and Twitter. What struck me was the utter lack of pushback. There was none. I am not expecting the same regarding this column. In this cartoon, Jesus is...
Cartoon Coffin: a Eulogy
Published in The Covington News ~ July 12, 2019. PREFACE If you are a subscriber of this newspaper, you may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything in a while. Yes, gentle reader, I have been — as we say — busy. And yep, this is an actual eulogy, the one I delivered at my sister...
The Importance of “My Bad”
Every honest, thinking person knows that there is a difference between what is simply legal and what is right, what is good and what is that which you can-get-away-with. I remember being in the fourth grade and attending high school basketball games. (Everybody in the whole county was...