Perspectives

I try not to make this column too educational but sometimes there is a need that can’t be ignored. When ranchers and cowmen work their cowherd, they are often under pressure to cull cows that they have developed a peculiar fondness for. Their excuses for keepin’ the ol’ darlin’ can be pretty feeble.

Always willing to do fellow Texans a favor, Phil Coe agreed on Oct. 4, 1871, to give four dozen cowboys the grand tour of Abilene when they arrived the next day in the Kansas cowtown.

I happen to believe vaccines are a good idea. That’s why I got one.