I’ve got another problem….

Sunday newspapers…. They are not what they use to be. Once upon a time they carried what the name implied… news. You buy one now and there are 12 pounds of preprint inserts from every chain and discount store form here to Hong Kong where most of the stuff they are selling comes from. It takes an hour to separate the gain from the sheaf. And what’s left? You have one section of old leftist columns telling us why the US should support the Soviet Union our friend.

There is a simple way around these inserts, or so called newspapers, and that’s going online. Today every major and minor newspapers have web sites that bring you news almost as it happens and not just on Sundays. Even the TV network news has web sites. However, this rapid on demand news has a few draw backs. First is to sit down in the morning with a hot cup of coffee and reading what? A computer or TV screen? The morning news shows for me is like a trip to the dentist. So it's the newspaper.... and our local one does an OK job raking the fire smoking up the place.

Sad to say there are two thing I’d miss if the newspaper weren’t on the door step, actually in a the mail box ¼ mile down the road. First I would not have anything to start our evening fire with and second we’d have nothing to wrap our garbage and fish guts in that is if I had any fish to clean. That this point in my life I am not much for standing on a frozen lake freezing my toes off waiting for a fish to nimble my line. As for fish there is always our famious Wisconsin Friday night fish fries which are a lot less messy.