“Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of eldeberries… Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.” — Monty Python, “The Holy Grail. One of the better comedic films of the last 25 years is “Citizen Ruth,” a striking take on the abortion debate. Laura Dern stars as “Ruth,” a […]
Over a dozen years ago, the environmental cause celebre was women driving Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) destroying the world; they guzzled gas and polluted at a copious rate. The high value target of the environmental purists was the Chevrolet Suburban, an SUV still produced today, being driven by “Soccer Moms.” A leader of the environmental
“. . . Leave those kids alone! All in all, It’s just another, Brick in the wall.” Pink Floyd, “The Wall,” Darkside of the Moon There’s never been a president like Donald J. Trump. His whole persona was based on lying. His family name was Drumph, and they were from Germany. Fred Trump, the father
I was in a store Christmas shopping the other day, found the item and approached the cashier. There was a young man and woman ahead of me fumbling for a credit card in the young woman’s purse. They slid it into the credit card machine and it was “denied.” After another credit card was denied,
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” — Abraham Lincoln One of the most unforgettable movie scenes for me was when the union boss in “On the Waterfront” took a bunch of tickets for work that day and tossed them onto the lawn to watch unemployed men wrestle with each other in the mud over
As a subscriber of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary on line, I get a daily email with the word of the day, plus a lot of extras that wordies like me enjoy perusing, like etymologies and trending terms. (I think it’s a holdover from my childhood, when I read my parents’ Reader’s Digest for the Word Power
As the endless allegations against President Donald Trump keep popping up on what seems like a monthly basis, and witnessing MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, CNBC, CNN and the dinosaur print media all a twitter over each one, guaranteeing this is the one that will destroy President Trump, I remember President Bill Clinton. I and
With all the talk recently in Townbroadcast about bullying, there is one thing that is true — it won’t stop. It won’t stop because it is in our DNA and culture. Some are aghast over bullying, some are bullies, some are bullied. I was when I was in third grade by the kid across the
Happy/Merry Christmas in Korean is ‘Meri krismas’ Estimates of the number of Christians in South Korea swing between 15% and 25%, and Buddhism is the main religion. Chuseok, the Autumn Eve, is the largest national holiday, but Christmas is observed out of respect for the minority and for its economic value. The South Koreans are
Every election cycle it seems like the Democrats always scream “voter suppression” during voting, even though there has been no credible evidence this has taken place. What they get their underwear in a bunch about is proper identification of the voter. To vote, you must be a legal resident of the township, county, state and
