Too many Americans newspapers have shut down or shriveled to irrelevance, but, luckily, we still have such bastions of local...
In my view, the greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was not Washington or Jefferson – nor, technically, he wasn’t even...
Although the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its relentless glare. Sunglasses? Check. Beach...
“Corporate crises consultants” (yes, there are such creatures) have patented a formula allowing their wrongdoing clients to champion reform while...
Here’s our Big Word of the day: Extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state...
Poor Katie Britt, the Republican senator from Alabama. She was set up by her party’s operatives to do the GOP’s...
Well, well, well – look who’s waking up and raring to go: Mr. and Ms. WOKE! We so-called “woke” people...
In 1863, humorist Artemus Ward wrote a satire on hucksterism, making up a tale of Abe Lincoln being asked to...
“Step right up, folks, and bite into the wondrous future of meat!” Cheap meat! Ethical meat! Animal meat you love...
I no longer receive my local newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. Oh, the paper still comes, but it’s just paper, minus...