Transgender promotion backfiring

President Joe Biden has done more to promote transgender ideology than any president, ever.

Has there ever been a bigger loser

To hear angry MAGA Republicans tell it, former President Donald J. Trump’s conviction for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records is a shock and an outrage. But how could anybody be surprised?

TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi.In 1964, antiapartheid activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

Terminology helps differentiate life stages

Dear Doctors: When I was in the waiting room at my doctor’s office, I overheard the nurses referring to two of the patients as a “young old” and an “oldest old.” Is this office shorthand, or are these actual medical categories? It sounded disrespectful.

Parents ready for adult son to move out

DEAR HARRIETTE: How do I politely kick my son out of the house? My 24-year-old son lives with me and my husband in Phoenix. He recently graduated college and doesn’t want to leave our house, even though he has a job and makes enough money to be able to afford an apartment.

Two candidates, mired in the past

One candidate worried about the country being a “house divided” by slavery but saw a future where “it will cease to be divided.” Another spoke amid the wreckage of the Great Depression, declaring, “I decline to accept present conditions as inevitable or beyond control.

Woman wants relationship with friend

DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a 25-yearold woman, and I want to pursue a relationship with my childhood friend. He and I have been friends since we were 5 years old. We went to the same schools from elementary through college, and now we both live in Boston.

Asking for help isn’t always a bad thing

My dad doesn’t like asking for help. He told me this recently when he asked if I could help him put out the dock. His knee was bothering him, and the dock was pulled up on shore at a steep incline. The dock frame was rolled into the water and then the boards of the dock were laid into place.

Comfort food for the sports soul

Iheard this story from former Sen. Jack Danforth many years ago. An ordained minister, he would occasionally conduct evening services at the National Cathedral, which sits atop the highest point in Washington. So it gets the best radio reception in the region.

Son frustrated by academic struggles

DEAR HARRIETTE: My son is 10 years old and is behind his peers academically.His literacy and writing skills are not nearly where they are supposed to be, and I can’t afford to help him.