by Doug Thompson | Jan 21, 2021 | Musings, Opinion, Politics
We watched the Inaugural activities Wednesday on video via laptop, acknowledging that Joe Biden’s clear and measured address set just the kind of tone that America needed after the past four years of tyranny, corruption and chaos. Although I have covered more...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 9, 2021 | FUBAR, Musings
In 2009, I was invited to participate in a conference at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on the changes between newspapers and online media outlets. During the conference, we were given accounts on a new media application called Twitter. Twitter called...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 23, 2020 | Musings
Trying to be thankful on this Thanksgiving week is difficult, to say the least. We spend most of our time at home, isolated from friends, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. When I do go out on assignments for The Floyd Press, it is often into the unknown among others...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 21, 2020 | Musings
When Barack Obama’s election in 2008, I guessed all presidents of the United States will be younger than me. Bill Clinton was two years older. Then Donald Trump upset all norms in Washington and became a president older than my age. In January, his successor...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 20, 2020 | FUBAR, Politics
In what Republicans and Democrats are calling “an unprecedented attempt and use of brute political force to overturn legal election results” continues this week as defeated president Donald Trump promotes discounted conspiracy theories and utters lie after...
