Custer County Chronicle

I have decided to write about a Constitutional Convention, also called a Convention of States, Article V Convention or Con-Con. For simplicity, I’ll refer to it as COS.

For those who attended Gold Discover Days in Custer recently, the COS folks were there in force getting signatures on a petition for a COS. They then took your signature and transformed it onto a form letter and have swamped my emails. Pretty funny huh? Well, to the good people pushing a COS, this tactic doesn’t work on me.  Having said that, let’s discuss.

With terms like “fake news” and “false narrative” having fully entered our cultural lexicon, it appears we really are living in a “post-truth” world. That term, “post-truth” has even found its way into the dictionary as a way to refer to “the disappearance of shared objective standards for truth.” It was designated Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2016 where it was defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” 

Every day has a feeling. Sunday is the first day of the week on my calendar, but it always feels like the end. Monday is the beginning of something. Sunday is for saying goodbye to a week.

“Ring, Ring!”

The sound of an old-fashioned telephone came from Officer Lumpy’s pocket while we talked and drank coffee at the local cafe. He fished a battered Jitterbug-brand phone from his pocket and flipped it open. My friend Lumpy has been absent from the pages of this paper for a while, but some readers may remember him as a long-suffering, chronically-crusty, old-school street cop who definitely does not work here. So don’t call my boss to complain about the stuff he says. Ain’t nobody got time for that.