THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, February 16, 2012 A
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by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
I’m not going to be writ- ing a column this week. To those of you who look
forward to reading it every week, I apologize. Sometimes a guy just
gets burned out trying to come up with ideas. So, instead of just forc-
ing myself to write about something that I’m not really feeling, just to get some words on paper, I’ve decided to not write any- thing at all. I realize some of you will
be disappointed; I’m a little disappointed myself, I haven’t missed a week since June of 2010. This week will break that string. But, hopefully, I’ll get back on track and start all over again next week. Of course, there are
some of you out there who are glad that they don’t have to open this week’s issue of The Weirs Times and see my smiling face and see yet ANOTHER column. You’ve made it pretty clear in your emails. This week you won’t have
to be annoyed at some of the things I have to say. You can relax. This week you get a break. It’s not like I didn’t try.
There’s a lot of material out there; I just couldn’t seem to get a good angle on any of it. I was thinking about
writing how Congress passed a law that made it illegal for them to par- ticipate in insider trading when it’s already illegal in the first place, but that seemed too easy and obvi- ous. I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only one to pick up on this joke. I could have written
about how everyone in the United States is screaming “global warming” since it’s so warm here this win- ter, while in parts of Eu- rope they are experiencing bone-chilling dangerously low record temperatures, but I couldn’t figure out how to make that funny. The State House in Con-
cord is always a “go to” place when I’m looking for some funny material. Seems like gambling is a big issue again and its
making some headway. I’m assuming a few palms have been greased along the way, but that wouldn’t be very professional of me to claim, not having any solid proof. I could have picked on
the latest entrant for Gov- ernor of New Hampshire and how it would be funny to have a Governor Cilley. But, I’ve already decided that going after people based on their names wouldn’t be my campaign strategy this year. Be- sides, I know some nice people with the same last name and they’ll probably get upset with me. So, I won’t go there. Of course, there’s my
favorite standby, the New Hampshire Brand that the Department of Travel and Tourism spent hundreds of thousands of taxpay- er dollars on a couple of years ago to have a mar- keting firm in Portsmouth pay a company in Flor- ida figure out. I had my own contest and “Mount Washington” won. It only cost ten bucks. As far as I know, the DOTT hasn’t
unveiled theirs yet. But, I’ll give them the
benefit of the doubt and a few more months until I pick on them again. Af- ter all, they are very busy people. That one will have to
wait. So, as you can see, my
mind was always work- ing, but I couldn’t quite latch on to something that would work for this week. Maybe I’m just trying too
hard. Someone suggested to
me that I run an old col- umn from years back that you might not remem- ber. The Weirs Times has picked up thousands of new readers over the years and many wouldn’t re- member some of my older columns. That to me feels a little
like cheating and would be a disservice to those loyal readers who have already been there, so I won’t do
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that. Besides, I’d just have to retype them and I really don’t have the time. So, as editor, I leave my-
self in a bind. I need some- thing to fill this page and I’m not sure what it will be at this point. I’m finding out, just a couple of hours before we go to press, that it would have been easier just to write something, anything, than to put this pressure on myself. I’ll be just as surprised
as you to find out what ends up on this page. So, I’ve learned my les-
son and I once again apol- ogize to you for not having a column this week. I hope you’ll forgive
me. I promise not to do it again.
If Brendan had writ-
ten a column this week he would have wel- comed your comments at
brendan@weirs.com
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