Last week, I went to bed in 2016 and woke up in 1968 – only the guy sporting a ponytail at a political rally was sucker-punching a protester, not getting beat up himself. Other than that 180-degree turn, the political season of 2016 is, as Karen Carpenter so appealingly sings, “yesterday ...
Imagine my surprise when, unable to sleep at 3 a.m., I turned on the TV and found CNN has colorized and begun showing Three Stooges shorts. Then I realized that I was watching footage of the current Republican presidential frontrunners.My confusion is understandable. On screen were three white ...
Random thoughts with Valentine’s Day just past:You don’t have to be an Einstein to figure out Valentine’s Day is only for women. As a female friend pointed out, just try to find a romantic gift for a guy. Frilly Jockey shorts are nowhere to be seen. Nor is candy that comes in a box the ...
OK, I admit it: I am obsessed with Barbie. Since I began writing columns in 1989, Barbie has been the subject of no fewer than four of them.Make that five.Bowing to complaints that Barbie’s vital statistics – 5 feet, 9 inches tall and 36-18-34 – don’t reflect those of real women and set ...
With their Jan. 2 armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon’s high desert country, Ammon Bundy and his followers have given revolutionaries a bad name. Initially appearing to be a group of rugged individualists seeking to protest “land grabbing” by the federal ...
Every Jan. 1 brings resolutions. We’ll stop swearing. We’ll lose weight. We’ll stop making new year resolutions.Following suit, each New Year’s Day since 1976, Lake Superior State University (LSSU) in Michigan has released a “banished words list.” LSSU Public Relations Director W.T. ...
