Trashing Republican traditions

After most Republicans vociferously condemned the FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Fox News host Steve Doocy plaintively asked his guest, GOP Congressman Steve Scalise: “Whatever happened to the Republican Party backing the blue?”

Adult son leaves room at parent's house a mess

DEAR HARRIETTE: My young adult child finally moved out of my house this summer. He finished college a few years ago and has just gotten on his feet with a job. It looks like he is starting his life off well. The issue I'm having is that he left his room a mess.

A classic anti-Trump frenzy

Beginning in the months before Donald Trump took office, and extending well into his presidency, the media and political world took a set of vague but serious accusations of wrongdoing involving the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia and created a 24/7 frenzy of talk about secret evidence, potential criminal charges and allegedly grave damage to national security.

Kansas isn’t having any part of overreach

That Kansas voted to protect abortion rights guaranteed in its state constitution didn’t surprise me, although I certainly never expected a landslide. The original Jayhawkers, after all, waged a gurrilla war to prevent Missourians from bringing slavery into the Kansas territory -- a violent dress rehearsal for the Civil War. A good deal of the state’s well known conservatism is grounded in stiff-necked independence.

 DO JUST ONE THING

• Here are a few reasons from the animal kingdom to avoid setting off fireworks for special events. In addition to making companion animals like dogs anxious and causing panic attacks, they can affect other types of wildlife as well. Bees get disoriented by the loud noise of fireworks and can't make it back to their hives. This often causes them to die. And birds have panic attacks as well, which can cause extreme distress to the point of large clusters of death.

Colleagues bump heads while at work

DEAR HARRIETTE: I'm having trouble communicating with one of my co-workers. It seems as though we bump heads about the smallest issues. I try to see his point of view on things, but most times his logic just doesn't make sense to me. How can I be more open to understanding his way of doing things? – Co-Worker Issues

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