Ott Observations

A young man I know of passed away recently. He was 26 years old. He had a manageable health condition but upon passing out alone in his home, he fatally…

A friend of mine recently asked me why I was for abortion. I told him I wasn’t. He got a puzzled look and said that was what I said in…

I spent the past few weeks on a vacation, driving to the east coast and back.  There were road construction delays on virtually every highway I traveled.   Rather than…

A couple of recent national surveys got me thinking about how disconnected our voting ideology can be from what we really want.   The Pew Research Center found that only…

gh school girls volleyball coach. The lawsuit claims the coach subjected the team to demoralizing and degrading activities.  I’m not unfamiliar with the behaviors and practices of volleyball coaches, having…

A conservative friend who reads my columns recently asked me what I thought about transgenders, specifically about athletes.   He knows I have a stepdaughter who once played college volleyball.…

Recently I found myself thinking about a movie made back in 2006 called “Idiocracy.” The movie is a science fiction comedy, with a plot about a future dystopian society where…

Not quite two years ago, I began writing letters to the editor, which eventually led to this column. I had an objective. I was frustrated by the level of almost…

Recently, I was looking through my high school yearbook, trying to find inspiration to attend my 50th reunion (It didn’t work).   Reading all my classmates’ written comments, I was…

Most Republicans in Congress are self-congratulating themselves for passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.   Yes, it’s an effort to rein in mass shooting gun violence by expanding background…

So much has already been said or written about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that I hesitated to write a column about it. For those that don’t closely follow…