Tag: tom anderson columns

Well folks, it’s finally here. The day you’ve either been dreading or looking forward to: It’s the day you read my last bit of work to appear in our little (multiple-award-winning) newspaper.

Question: Would you support the idea of the government licensing anyone aged 16 or older and in good physical health to not just own a firearm, but to carry it around loaded in his hand with the safety off just about everywhere, including in front of schools, malls and bustling city centers?

It should go without saying that I love cars, but I also know that there are way, way too many of them on Southern California roads.

Now that the countdown to the day we, the class of 2007, leave these hallowed caves, er, halls and enter the much-ballyhooed real world is measured in weeks instead of months or years, the time to start shifting one’s focus from schoolwork to a real-live paying job (or three) is truly upon us.

Question: Do people who knowingly and willingly move in next door to an airport, auto racing track, railroad line, factory or any other bothersome place, have the right to whine and complain about the noise, traffic and other ill effects, especially to the point that the adjacent business is eventually run out of the neighborhood?

I think it’s finally safe to say that our society is now firmly under the control of lawyers.