A signature (and more)

There are some things I would like to put in the paper but I just can't because of the precedent it would set.

Some people write letters to the editor in an official capacity, and they sign them that way, like
Gunter P. Morrison
Executive director
West Virginia Turnip Liberation League
Ona

But there's a guy over in Lawrence County, Ohio, who doesn't like the way he gets his property taxes in the mail. He signed his letter

Dale Holschuh
Retired storekeeper and unreconstructed rabblerouser
Scottown, Ohio

I would love to run that signature, but I can't because it would open the doors to too many wacky signatures.

So Mr. Holschuh, here's to your unreconstructed rabblerouserness.

O-O-O

I was editing a column, and the writer used the word "iceburg." That couldn't be right, so I looked it up.

The "berg" in the proper spelling of "iceberg" means "mountain." We all know that "burg" means town.

So last month, Huntington was an "iceburg."

It's late. I really need to go home soon.