Greetings! Here are the topics for today’s independent commentary:

• Sheehy Questions
• Supreme Court Homelessness Case
• Old Age Begins
• One More Thing

SHEEHY QUESTIONS:

The Montana Democrats have a new video up that calls on Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy to release his medical records from a 2015 hospital visit in Kalispell, so Montanans know the nature of his injuries treated that day.

Sheehy first claimed he accidentally shot himself in Glacier National Park but has also said the wound was received in Afghanistan. There are other reports of gunshot wounds in his book. We don’t know the whole story about Sheehy.

Montanans like military heroes, but they don’t like heroes who lie about their service.

You can view the video by clicking HERE.

SUPREME COURT HOMELESSNESS CASE:

There’s a lot of chatter about the U.S. Supreme Court hearing the City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson case this week.

The Associated Press (AP) reported that justices on Monday considered a challenge to rulings from a California-based appeals court that found punishing people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely blocked the camping ban under its finding that it is unconstitutional to punish people for sleeping outside when there is not adequate shelter space. Grants Pass appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing the ruling left it few good options.

Maybe they should force them to sleep under bridges like Great Falls basically forced their homeless population to do. It’s the “out of sight out of mind” plan.

Whatever the Supreme Court decides, the problem will still be there.

OLD AGE BEGINS:

Is 75 the new 65? Study Finds is reporting that people dread the idea of aging, however, a new study from an international team of researchers reveals the definition of “old age” is changing. Compared to previous generations, people now put off considering themselves “old” until later in life.

The study, conducted by a team of researchers from Germany and the United States and published in the journal Psychology and Aging, analyzed data from over 14,000 people born between 1911 and 1974 who participated in the ongoing German Ageing Survey. Participants were asked a simple question: “At what age would you describe someone as old?”

According to the team’s findings, people in their mid-60s believe “old age” begins around 75. This perception, though, varied significantly across different generations or “birth cohorts.” People born later, especially those born after 1935, tended to push back the age at which they considered someone old. In other words, the threshold for being considered “old” has shifted upwards over time.

Some days I feel older than dirt and other days like a spring chicken. The spring chicken days are few and far between.

Read the complete report from Study Finds HERE.

ONE MORE THING:

People on social networks were having some fun with the name of one of the witnesses in the trial of former President Donald Trump.

David Pecker took the witness stand. According to Wikipedia, Pecker was the publisher of Men’s Fitness, Muscle and Fitness, Flex, Fit Pregnancy, Shape and Star. He was also the publisher of National Enquirer, Sun, Weekly World News, and Globe.

As he testified, we heard a lot of “Pecker this” and “Pecker that” throughout the day.

For my part, I posted on X: “I’m wondering if someone named “Weiner” is on the witness list after “Pecker” is done.” #TrumpTrial #MiddleSchoolHumor

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