by Doug Thompson | Sep 13, 2020 | FUBAR, Opinion, Politics
An alarming number of folks worry that America is headed for a violent showdown because of the rising anger, rabid partisanship and hate that seems to grow like a cancer in our society. “In the past 16 weeks, more than 50 drivers have plowed into peaceful...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 27, 2016 | Afflicting, Musings
Fights and disturbances broke out in shopping malls around America on the day after Christmas Monday. In Chicago, police report 61 people shot with 11 killed in various incidents in the city over the holiday weekend. Here in Floyd County, a local minister took to...
by Doug Thompson | Feb 1, 2016 | Musings, News
Too much bad news locally as the first month of 2016 winds down. A day after the missing teenager from Blacksburg was found dead just over the North Carolina line in Surry County, two Virginia Tech students are in jail — an 18-year-old freshman and a 19-year-old...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 30, 2015 | Musings
The violent and tragic deaths WDBJ journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward while shooting a live segment at Smith Mountain Lake Wednesday morning brought a chorus of “how can something like this happen here?” Sadly, such things happen just about everywhere...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 10, 2011 | Musings
Whenever a tragedy like the Arizona shooting that left six people — including a nine-year-old girl and a federal judge — dead along with a Congresswoman seriously injured enters the national debate, we can be sure that extremists on all sides of the issue...
