SALLY BARNES

I’ve always believed that old adage that you can judge people by the company they keep. That company extends to dogs and other non-human creatures welcomed into a person’s heart and home. I confess to being a dog lover. I’ve always had a dog and I don’t know how people can live happily without one. There are lots of other kinds of pets, of course, but I am suspicious of anyone who befriends a boa constrictor, for example. I’m told rats make good pets but I wouldn’t rush to be

Dear President Joe: What in God’s name have you ever done to deserve this? After a distinguished career and at an age when you should be able to sit by the fire and enjoy your grandkids and a good book, the world is counting on you for nothing short of a miracle. From up here in the Great White North the task looks well nigh impossible. America ! America! Land of the sick and dying, governed by the crazed and lying..from sea to shining sea. They’re coming at you from all side