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Friday, March 29, 2024 — Houston, TX

Mitch Mackowiak






OPINION 8/27/15 12:07pm

Life's a Mitch: Keep your pens inked, or fingers above the keys

Welcome one and all! Since I took the yoke of Opinions Editor, we have run a few self-ads encouraging readers to write opinions articles. Please note the change in tone of the ad, from a request to a reminder:   As the calls of slammed trunk doors die away and towers of boxes and bins dwindle Between brimmed buckets of announcements poured over our bewildered ears and eyes I wish to share with you some hopes. If you want to shout your thoughts from a roof Fondren’s will garner widest audience, but I hope you think the Thresher a good roof.   If you have saved some public monologues snuck in the corners of your mind, you will find columnists welcome to the Thresher.    Should recent news spark your strong reaction the act of writing allows thorough thought and I hope you think thoroughly through us. If your convictions fall on ears unhearing or everyone seems out of earshot plenty of eyes study newsprint, like yours.   You need no invitation to write us but, as any teacher might subtly threat,  should no one raise a hand, I shall call you as empty opinion sections are lies.