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I resigned from my final full-time journalism job on Aug. 31, 2012, having been informed by my publisher that I no longer would do what I had done for the Amarillo Globe-News for the past 18 years …. and I thought I was pretty good at it.<\/p>\n

Silly me.<\/p>\n

I would learn later that the publisher had me in his crosshairs when he announced that everyone’s job description had been changed. I fought for my job fiercely, telling the publisher ultimately that the industry I entered in 1976 bore no resemblance to what it had become by 2012. And that he was asking me to do things only a little different.<\/p>\n

It didn’t work.<\/p>\n

Immediately, I. began focusing my attention full time to High Plains Blogger, a platform I created a few years earlier.<\/p>\n

I have mentioned many times on this blog how much I enjoy writing on it, offering my assorted views on this and\/or that policy issue.<\/p>\n

I have boasted from time to time that writing comes easily to me. I won’t brag about the quality of the prose I produce, just say that it does flow fairly easily off the tips of my fingers.<\/p>\n

The subject matter helps determine the ease. I’ll be candid. Prior to President Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential campaign, it was becoming a bit problematic to find issues on which to comment.<\/p>\n

Up stepped ‘vice President Kamala Harris. Biden endorsed the VP. She launched a full-frontal campaign from a virtual dead stop, raised a few tons of cash and injected this campaign with an energy level I haven’t seen since, oh, 2008 when Barack Obama took the nation by storm.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for your friendly blogger? It means the proverbial chest where I store my ideas is full again.<\/p>\n

I intend to remain engaged fully in this campaign. The blog is the only venue I have to offer commentary on the status of the effort.<\/p>\n

So … I will weigh in. It feels good to be relevant.<\/p>\n\n

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