While channel surfing on my car radio recently, I heard Christmas music. It’s not even mid-November and the temperatures are hovering around 70 degrees. Is someone jumping the gun just a little?
Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas and all of the trappings of the holiday season. Heaven knows we need a lotta Christmas in light of the recent election, where goodwill toward all went missing. And there’s no denying that you can’t beat the annual resurrection of childhood memories, the glow of glittery decorations and the revival of our treasured winter tunes, as sung by crooners of Christmas past.
But there’s too much excitement in the air right now to fully enjoy the coming of Santa. It seems like only yesterday that the Chicago Cubs triumphed and time stood still.
In the event I am wrong, may I be the first to wish you “Happy Holidays!”
Bob Ory, Elgin
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What mandate for Trump?
Given that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote for president, it takes a huge amount of chutzpah for House Speaker Paul Ryan to declare that President-elect Donald Trump “earned a mandate.” Given that Ryan and his GOP colleagues denied that President Obama had a mandate in 2008 or 2012 — when Obama won both the Electoral College and the popular vote by huge margins — you’ve got to wonder what other disingenuous fictions they’ll trump up in the next four years.
Dan Lauber, River Forest
Taxes driving me away
I haven’t purchased gas in Cook County in about 10 years. I have limited my soft drink purchases to suburban stores because of the city soft drink tax. And now, given the county tax on soft drinks, I will purchase soft drinks outside Cook County. I have lived in the City of Chicago for 80 years, but now I can’t afford to live here any more. I soon will be joining the exodus.
John Culloton, Norwood Park
