Published January 17, 2020
Letter to the Editor
The Post and Courier
Charleston SC
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have held onto the impeachment document until after the 2020 election.
This would have precluded President Donald Trump from screaming he was not convicted, and it would have saved face for the Senate Republican sycophants, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, who will not convict.
/s/Francis X. Archibald
Liberty Midtown Drive
Mount Pleasant
Friday, January 17
Friday, January 10
It’s good to be in Carolina
Until I was 20 yeas old and joined the USAF in 1951, I had only been out of Massachusetts twice (excluding trips to N.H. for swimming). When I left with the Air Force I never looked back, although I maintained a curiosity about my home state. After all, I had a mother and sister and other relatives living there and visited on occasion.
So it came as no surprise that I would be interested in the work of the Spotlight Team ((won Academy Award, for Best Picture, 2016) of The Boston Globe, reporting last November on the traffic mess in Boston. (So, it takes me awhile to catch up on my reading.)
The Team reported, for example, that the number of cars and trucks registered in Greater Boston jumped 300,000 from 2014 to 2019. And traffic was a mess in Boston before I went in the Air Force. It isn’t the jump in the number of cars alone which is the problem.
It is the growth in the population and number of workers driving into Greater Boston, the increase (59,000) in people driving to work alone (Americans love their cars), and the age of the subway system (two decades older than many residents) and the lack of bus lanes.
Seattle has 40 miles of bus lanes, London 180 miles, New York about 100 miles. Boston has roughly 10.
So when you drive to work in Greater Charleston and your mean travel time is 24.6 minutes on either I-26, I-526, Highway 17 or other roads don’t gripe.
It’s good to be in Carolina.
Thursday, January 2
The Pajama Party
Residents of the Independent Living section of South Bay at Mt. Pleasant, SC, (minimum age 55) held a “pajama party” to celebrate the beginning of the New Year. This was a tad different from the usual pajama or sleep over party commonly held by teens as a rite of passage.
Being of a more cerebral nature the adults stayed home at night and bypassed the “sleepover. ” We met in the morning in the card room where Bloody Marys, orange juice, quiche and biscuits were available. About twelve residents (one man - me) and some staff were in attendance.
All the ladies wore colorful pajamas, some topped off with a bed jacket. The conversation was lively, everyone ate and drank and a suggestion was made that next year everyone try to get a new resident to join the event.
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