If you steal, steal enough
I have three bones to pick with the Observer-Reporter due to several articles that appeared in last Friday’s edition.
1) As for disparaging the “Blondie” comic strip in an editorial on the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, it is no worse or better than any other comic strip, and it’s a classic. I happen to find it amusing.
2) Regarding former Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky and the sentence he received for stealing drug evidence, it’s nice to have friends who are well connected to help you out in a difficult situation.
3) And regarding the Associated Press story on the peanut company executive who was sentenced to life in prison for selling salmonella-tainted food, there was a case in China, as I remember it, where a guy was executed for selling tainted baby formula.
I would not go quite that far, but at least my old man taught me well. He said, “Son, if you’re going to steal, make sure you steal enough to buy your way back out of it.”
Gary L. DeMoss
Washington