A great lady to whom I owe much died recently.

My mother untacked a slip of typewritten paper from the bulletin board in the kitchen at the camp – three lines of faded ink typed years ago on my father’s ancient Remington that still sits over in the corner on the floor, under stationery, sewing and various mending supplies – and brought it to me in the living room.

In May 2003, USA Today reporter Toni Locy wrote a story that said the federal government might be unfairly targeting a government scientist as the primary suspect in the anthrax letters case that killed five people in 2001.

Hey, Bob. Thanks again for setting me up on my new computer. I love finally being “on line” and “surfing the Web.” At last I can “google” people without fear of being arrested. The thing I love most, though, is the e-mail.

Chris Britt's editorial cartoon for Tuesday, July 1.

Anything we can do to prevent the spread of breast cancer I’m all for. It is one of our most predominant killers and one that can attack any woman at any age, and even men.

Too bad James Madison and George Mason and Thomas Jefferson and others of their ilk are not alive today to explain what exactly they meant by their ambiguous wording in the Second Amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I was sitting on a beam in the back of my cottage on the lake as I wound a heavy-duty electrical cord around my arm. Suddenly I felt something move across my foot. I leapt into the air like a high jumper trying to qualify for a trip to Beijing and came down on the grass tangled in a web of orange wire. Next to my foot sat the culprit: a frog.

I’ll admit it, I’m averse to flying in adverse weather conditions. Actually, I’m not fond of flying at all, but I wanted to illustrate the difference between “averse” and “adverse.”

Talk about a landmark ruling. Thursday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court finally told us what the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution means. We’d only been waiting since 1791, for heaven’s sake.

Columnist Danny Henley writes about the different types of sharks he observed while on vacation.

Though he has not been formally or informally asked, former president Bill Clinton said he would be happy to appear on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ next week in its first program under interim moderator Tom Brokaw, the former anchor of "NBC Nightly News."

I have a fantastic idea whose time, I think, has come again. Why not start some community gardens?

I only bring up the world of prostitution to demonstrate just how widespread the effect of high gas prices is on American life. And of course, it gives a whole new meaning to the question, "Would you like regular or super?"

If there were a Mount Rushmore of comedians, there may be arguments about the fourth head, but one of the top three would undoubtedly be George Carlin, who died after heart complications earlier this week.