If Tornado Alley were a battlefield, historically this time of year the cannons would be silenced. Not so this December. All hell has broken loose. The weather map has been a work by Jackson Pollock: all splatters. It’s impossible to cite a cause for such weirdness across a swath of Dixie, including killer tornadoes in…
Everyone knows the adjective form of “good”: Good tidings. Good cheer. Good grief. But there’s the noun form, too: The condition of good or goodness. The common good. The greater good. So we ask today: Is government any good? To be honest, that’s a silly question, considering the schools and roads it enables, the old-age…
Charles Barkley calls Twitter “a place where fools go to feel important.” He’s talking about you, Donald. You’ve built a fool’s paradise, constructed in planks of 140 words or less. Like many who find that kind of fame salutary, your ambitions are destined to go no further than…
The arrival of the Beatles. The Civil Rights Act. LBJ’s rout of Goldwater. All vied for “Biggest Story” of 1964. But another might have eclipsed them all: the Surgeon General’s report definitively linking smoking with cancer. Why so big? Well, that year four of 10 American adults smoked. Yes, this cancer thing was big news.…
You bet it was political. Moments after it happened, we were all certain. That was in 1995 when Timothy McVeigh’s fertilizer bomb made rubble of the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168. You bet it was political as well last week when a wide-eyed, white-bearded Obama-hater was charged with the deaths of…