• About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Pickem Terms and Conditions
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem!
    • Weekly Pickem Updates
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem!
    • Weekly Pickem Updates
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish
No Result
View All Result
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
No Result
View All Result

Get in your lane

Guy Speckman by Guy Speckman
April 9, 2021
in Ponder the Thought
Get in your lane
8
SHARES
190
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email

Can we all agree that Easter has nothing to do with a bunny? That has been bothering me for a while now and I’m glad to get it off my mind. Can we also acknowledge that bunnies do not lay eggs? Can we also agree that 90% of Facebook users post “Easter” photos despite not having practiced any sort of Christianity in the prior 364 days?

Carry on.

RelatedNews

Ankles, schools and column etiquette

Airport power ports, urinals and restaurants

Esther George, schools


I’m not good at religious gatherings, so I try to lay low on Easter. I’m still a little skeptical of a few of the chapters in the Bible, so I’m probably not your go-to source for Easter background knowledge.


An old friend reached out to me a couple of weeks ago. He had stumbled onto the best weekly newspaper in the state and then onto this column. He lives in Platte County and he’s one of those dudes that bikes the backroads of Platte County for entertainment. Yeah, on a bicycle that requires you to pedal. I guess that seems healthy except for the texting drivers that share the road with him. He mentioned he sometimes hits up a “whiskey club” over in Weston or the winery down in the river bottoms on Highway 45. As far as riding a bicycle along Highway 45, I don’t ever intend to be on that highway without a combustible engine powering me. As far as a “whiskey club,” I’ve been clubbed by enough whiskey to know better to join a club that has “whiskey” in the name.


I suppose it is possible that I may drive that highway with a battery powered engine at some point in my life, so I probably should retract that statement. If Elon Musk and Joe Biden get their way, I won’t be able to get my hands on a gas engine in a few years, so I would like to amend the above declaration to include battery powered engines.


Why are Major League Baseball and Coca Cola and other corporations trying to run state government? Honestly, these corporate stances on state laws befuddle me. Would somebody send them a memo that we have these things called elections and we send these people called representatives to state capitols all over the country each year? These people then vote on our behalf. It’s kind of how government works here in the USA. Anyway, if the commissioner of baseball wants to run state government, he should put his name on the ballot. Otherwise, just show up and play baseball cause government, while messy, has been running for nearly 250 years without one single interruption. Baseball can’t say the same.

That is not a “shut up and dribble” comment. That is a “get in your lane” comment. This country has veered completely out of our lanes. We got mayors and governors making health decisions, we have career health officials making law and we have corporations trying to dictate state law and policy. Could everyone please return to their appropriate lane of traffic before we have a serious accident?

This keeps up and we’re going to have an Insurrection or Pandemic or something really bad like that.

(Guy Speckman can be reached at gspeckman@me.com <mailto:gspeckman@me.com> or driving in his own lane)

Tags: electionsplatte countyweston
Guy Speckman

Guy Speckman

Guy Speckman is a Landmark contributing columnist with his Ponder the Thought column. Speckman is the former owner of the Savannah Reporter, where the column appeared for nearly two decades. Speckman is a former city government manager, serving as city administrator in Maysville, Plattsburg and Savannah before entering business. He is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University (1989). He is originally from Plattsburg, Missouri. He and his wife own and operate a real estate valuation firm and a daily legal newspaper and are the parents of two grown children.

Related Posts

45 Years Ago–January 27, 1978

by Ivan Foley
January 27, 2023
0

Miss Grace Ann McLain and Clifford Northern were united in marriage by the Rev. Lester Weeks at the First Christian Church in Platte City on Saturday evening, Jan. 21. The parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Charles McLain...

30 Years Ago–January 23, 1993

by Ivan Foley
January 27, 2023
0

A preliminary budget calling for $7.9 million in general fund expenditures has been presented by Bob Griffith, county auditor and budget officer. General fund revenues for 1993 are expected to be the same as expenditures, $7.9 million. Last years budget...

15 Years Ago–January 23, 2008

by Ivan Foley
January 27, 2023
0

The Landmark exclusively can report a motion to terminate the employment of Keith Moody, longtime city administrator, was approved by a majority of the Platte City Board of Aldermen Tuesday night. The decision to fire Moody was made on a...

Patrick Mahomes

Ankles, schools and column etiquette

by Guy Speckman
January 27, 2023
0

I am “need a space heater at all times” years old. A lot of you are being selfish and not offering your ankles to Patrick Mahomes. You're not using a perfectly good ankle this weekend. Show some pride and make...

Next Post
Vaccine side effects; taking the temperature of local voters

Vaccine side effects; taking the temperature of local voters

Popular News

  • Joe Vanover

    Vanover wins Sunshine Law trial

    10 shares
    Share 4 Tweet 3
  • County getting ready to rearrange some chairs

    8 shares
    Share 3 Tweet 2
  • Lawsuit claims toxic heavy metals in herbs and spices

    22 shares
    Share 9 Tweet 6
  • Nation’s oldest polar bear dies at KC Zoo

    6 shares
    Share 2 Tweet 2
  • East side Hwy. 92 will become four-lane stretch

    18 shares
    Share 7 Tweet 5
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Pickem Terms and Conditions
Call us at 816-858-0363

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved

No Result
View All Result
  • Subscribe Online
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem
    • Login / Sign-up
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved