Opinions

When Clayton Capps of Salado was a youngster, his parents took him to a Disney movie that featured a Volkswagen named Herbie. That fascinated him.“When I saw this Volkswagen bug doing all these tricks and being very kind to the little boy that was in the movie and stuff like that I thought it was such a neat character. Of course when I was five years old I thought the car was actually alive. From then on, I just always told my parents that when I turned 16 years old I want to get a Volkswagen.”

You start out with a closed fist. Then stick out your forefinger and raise your thumb. All of a sudden your hand looks like a cocked pistol. That’s Texas Tech’s “Guns Up” gesture that students use at sporting events and in greeting each other. Next year, 2021, will mark the 50th year of “Guns Up.”

The past few weeks have been positively Orwellian in nature: the redefinition of “packing the court” by Democrats, their characterization of violence and mayhem as “peaceful protests,” and concerns over Democrat’s mail-in ballot fraud redefined as “Republican voter suppression.”