Questions to ponder
Voltaire (1694-1778) said, “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
OK.
• If all the deer currently roaming Mt. Lebanon are exterminated and none ever show up there again, what would the Trib’s Colin McNickley write about?
• Jeb Bush would probably do a good job as president, (hell, I probably would), but haven’t we had enough of the Bushes, the Clintons, the Kennedys and other would-be dynasties?
• Joe Sestak is running for the U.S. Senate again? Will we ever find out why he was demoted one star when he was an admiral in the U.S. Navy?
• Maureen Dowd and former Ambassador Dan Simpson wrote columns excoriating Hillary Clinton for using a private email account. Is it finally sinking in?
• Hard to believe, but most complaints about new cars involve the sound and electronic systems. But do the vehicles run properly?
• A recent column in The Almanac was by a man calling himself a “secular atheist.” How many different kinds are there?
• The day after the president vetoed the Keystone Pipeline bill, there was another derailment of oil tankers. Will congress have the you know what to eventually override the veto?
• Now that the NCAA has restored Joe Paterno’s wins, why is Penn State dragging its feet on putting his statue back at Beaver Stadium?
• Three members of the State House – all from the Philadelphia area – have been indicted on corruption charges. So what else is new?
• If I went to a police station – be it state, county or local – and asked to see copies of citations issued to motorists for failing to yield to pedestrians at a crosswalk, would I get one for harassment?
• Whatever became of Giant Eagle’s price war with WalMart?
• And why did the food chain discontinue carrying Florida’s Natural Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice? And replace it with their own brand, a product of vastly inferior quality and taste?
• In 2007, Lee Iacocca wrote a book titled “Where Have All The Leaders Gone?” Unfortunately, they are still around. Isn’t it time for term limits for all legislators and members of the U.S. supreme Court?
Ross A. Matlack Jr.
Mt. Lebanon