May 13, 2013
11:25 a.m.
I started out last Monday writing my weekly movie review when a report of terrorist activity in Montevideo, Minnesota landed on my desk.
The FBI press release had it that someone named Buford “Bucky” Rogers had been arrested in a raid on his parent’s tra...
May 10, 2013
11:26 a.m.
Note: This is my weekly op-ed.
“What are you talking about?” (I hear you say.) “All we do is argue these days. About gun control, abortion, Obamacare…”
No, we don’t argue about these things at all. Or at best, only one side argues.
“What? Doesn’t it ta...
May 2, 2013
11:28 a.m.
Note: Cross-posted on my professional blog at the Marshall Independent.
Yesterday, May 1, I saw a Facebook post by an academic I’ve known for… a long time. He teaches history in an east coast college and advertises himself as a “labor h...
April 30, 2013
5:30 p.m.
Note: Cross-posted on my professional blog at the Marshall Independent.
Lenore Skenazy is a columnist who usually writes from a light humorous perspective.
Not surprising, she used to write for MAD Magazine back when it was still good, and is the auth...
April 28, 2013
5:33 p.m.
Note: This appeared in the print-only TV Guide of the Marshall Independent.
Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
Fo...
April 23, 2013
5:30 p.m.
Note: This is my weekly op-ed column.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead and his brother Dzhokhar is in custody, which is the way it ought to be by rights. Yet there are people unhappy about it.
The two brothers were from Chechnya, a majority Muslim territory in...
April 22, 2013
5:28 p.m.
Note: Cross-posted on my professional blog at the Marshall Independent.
Darn it! Another case of Celebrities Behaving Badly, and this time with one I kind of liked.
Reese Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth were arrested and very briefly held in Atlant...
April 19, 2013
11:30 a.m.
Note: This appeared in the print-only TV Guide of the Marshall Independent.
According to Entertainment Weekly, “42” made Hollywood history with the highest-grossing premier of any baseball-themed movie. Which is true but almost beside the point. It’s not...
April 13, 2013
5:25 p.m.
Noe: This appeared in the print-only TV Guide of The Marshall Independent.
There are great movies, good movies, bad movies, and awful movies. Then there’s movies like “The Host” which are just kind of blah.
The movie is based on the book by Stephanie Me...
April 5, 2013
11:33 a.m.
Note: My weekly op-ed.
The late great science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein once told a crowd at a convention, “Some of you will see a nuclear war within your lifetime.”
The crowd, to say the least, did not want to hear this.
A few years ago when I...
