Around the Square
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Butch Furse
We don’t live in a normal household. Before you jump to conclusions, let’s us do a little explaining.
The Betterhalf and I seem to have a race, which I generally lose. The race that I am referring to is the race to who gets to read the sports section of our daily state newspaper first. And during Husker football season my being able to read or post claim to the sports section first is practically nil.
This is hard to take for a guy who grew up in a newspaper family where I was instructed not to open the newspaper before my dad had read it. Since the past Husker season, COVID athletic guidelines and an abbreviated football schedule, I must admit my demand to read the sports section first is not as strong as it once was and has altered my demands. However, I married a gal who is perhaps the most adamant female Husker football fan in our community and her support for Husker football has not faded one iota.
I thought after football season ended this situation would change and I might get a glimpse of the sports page first. My hopes were dashed this week when the Betterhalf casually told me how she could hardly wait for Husker baseball season to get underway. She already recited one story she saw just this week regarding upcoming scheduling. I concede – there’s little chance I will not be reading the sports section first until midsummer.
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A little boy got lost at the fitness center and found himself in the women’s locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with the ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, “What’s the matter, haven’t you ever seen a little boy before?”
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With political crisis after crisis and need for decisions to be made I find it difficult noticing some congressional leaders found time to author their own books instead of coming up with productive cooperative legislative sessions.
It would be great when those books were written on “taxpayer time” the politician would be required to give some of the book proceeds to the taxpayers.
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You can meet friends everywhere, but you cannot meet enemies everywhere. You have to make them.
RL Furse is publisher emeritus of the News-Register
