As 2016 – the Chinese Year of the Monkey – draws to a close, I have a few questions.• This year, why did we have to wait until almost one week before Christmas to see a news story about someone stealing a statue of Baby Jesus from a Nativity display (this time, in Bethlehem, Pa.)? People ...
Gather round, children, and Unkie Dave will tell you a story while we trim the tree.It were nigh unto 20 years ago when I began my Christmas quest. It was a dark time – pre-Google, in fact. Don’t roll your eyes, Tiffany! That’s right: No Google!Look – we’ll never get this thing up if ...
If the unstanchable tidal wave of vitriol that has flowed through Facebook for the past 18 months washes away and dumps only one thing into the ocean of forgetfulness, let’s hope it’s social media itself.“Social media.” Talk about your oxymorons!Look up “social” in any dictionary ...
It’s hard to write a column scheduled to appear a day after a presidential election when you must write it before the results are known. I can’t be sure who won or if, indeed, anyone has been declared the victor. So I prepared opening zingers for any eventuality.Clinton victory: “That ...
It has been a boring Halloween season. A wave of scary clown sightings earlier this month briefly gave me hope that some kind of harlequin holocaust was on the horizon. I looked; I saw no clowns. Then I realized that people must have been talking about the presidential debates.Really, what ...
Rudy, stop painting with a broad brush. All men do not “at times talk like that.” Undeniably, some do. But not all men. But even if we did, it wouldn’t be excusable. I have known this since I was old enough to understand what makes a man.Yes, some men are guilty of extreme hyperbole when ...
