The beaver regime
I had never stopped at a Buc-ee's before this spring on my travel to Florida. I was impressed by the brisket sandwich. I didn't buy anything else. It's a huge time-waster on a long trip.
Now, with them suing local Ohio businesses that have used beavers in their logos for years, I will never stop at a Buc-ee's again. That is a terrible corporate philosophy, akin to Walmart forcing local small businesses out with its pricing. I don't shop there, either.
Ohio has enough problems. We sure don't need Buc-ee's driving local businesses out. I hope everyone boycotts them. I wish I lived near Dayton. I'd go buy beaver cookies!!
Mary Mura, Columbus
When pigs fly and lettuce can kill you
Is it just me, or is the
impact that DOGE made to the health of the nation by slashing so many positions (I believe it was in the interest of saving the government and thus the taxpayers huge amounts of money) finally coming to roost with the increased rise of food-borne illnesses?
I have long since admitted defeat that anyone, anywhere will stand up and ask for some decorum from public officials, starting at the top, but where is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy with this current outbreak of deadly illness?
I would think the MAHA people would be in the streets demanding some recourse, but I suspect that will happen only when the pigs are flying (and I would be willing to bet the cuts to the FAA would not address flying pigs).
Are the American people finally going to demand some accountability in at least one area? Don't hold your breath.
Kathie Bailey, Dublin
Trump's hokey pokey
Deal on; deal off. Opponent decimated and obliterated; opponent continues to fight effectively. Strait open; strait closed. The war is over; the war carries on. Put your right foot in, take your right foot out, put your right foot in, and shake it all about.
President Donald Trump's version of the Hokey Pokey is heavy on the hokum. It's the choreography of a con man, designed to distract from a disaster that won't play well at the polls. Neither he nor his pathetically incompetent secretary of defense has a strategy, an endgame, or any notion of what to do or how to do it.
There is no exit strategy; there never was one, just some wishful thinking.
This Hokey Pokey song and dance don't accomplish anything diplomatically or militarily.
Our adversaries know Trump is obsessed. He and Hegseth think that whoever has the most manpower, firepower and testosterone automatically wins. Isn't necessarily so (cf. every David vs. Goliath war led by intelligent men and women in every century on Earth, including the American Revolution).
What happened to regime change? Trump's stupid war solidified the hard-liners' power. Our military has died in service to a country run by cynics and fools. Put your right foot in, take your right foot out...
Candy Canzoneri, Westerville
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: The brisket is good, but nasty lawsuit has soured me on Buc-ee's | Letters
