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Joe Rogers: The plus side of old age
Among the advantages of reaching geezer status is that it offers certain financial perks not available to most whippersnappers. (A whippersnapper, in my usage, is ...
Joe Rogers, Author at The Oxford Eagle - Page 2 of 2
I'm a retired newspaper journalist and a Mississippi native who found himself living and working in New York.
Columns
Joe Rogers: What Makes Mississippi, Mississippi?
I’ve been trying to figure out how best to celebrate Mississippi’s approaching bicentennial, and think I’ve hit upon the answer: Road trip! You can help. ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, May 8, 2017 5:43 am
Columns
Joe Rogers: The not-so-good old days
In the 1960s, “The Flintstones” presented life in the Stone Age as comically entertaining. “The Jetsons” suggested pretty much the same would be true in ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, May 1, 2017 5:30 am
Columns
Joe Rogers: I’m not a kook; I just play one
It must be tough these days to be Alex Jones, the fringe radio host/internet provocateur. I’ve always thought of him – when I thought of ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, April 24, 2017 3:28 pm
Columnists
Getting literate, before it’s too late
It may be time to broaden my literary horizons. Much of my reading has long involved heroes who specialize in pummeling, shooting, arresting or, depending ...
by Joe Rogers, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 7:21 pm
Columns
Joe Rogers: The rites and blights of spring
The days are getting longer, the thermometer is creeping up, green is oozing into the landscape. Which means disaster is probably on the way. If ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, April 10, 2017 5:41 am
Columns
Joe Rogers: The problem(s) with liberals
It’s a question I’d pondered: If, as liberals believe, progressive policies are better for America, why do Republicans hold the presidency, both houses of Congress ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, April 3, 2017 5:37 am
Columns
Joe Rogers: You can’t handle the truth
A Mississippi legislator, stung by a newspaper column, has taken it upon himself to bring “objective truth” to the people of the state. Well, good ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, March 27, 2017 6:26 am
Columns
90 in the shade, but done in by snow
My friend Ed and I were wrapping up our annual baseball spring training trip the other day, in typical fashion: game, watering hole, cheeseburgers, hotel. ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, March 20, 2017 5:59 am
Columns
The Oreos-God connection
Can abstaining from Oreos produce a closer communion with God? I’ll get to that in a bit. As you may know, we are in the ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, March 13, 2017 5:40 am
Columns
Joe Rogers: Should Mississippi go blue?
Every year I wade through the measures introduced by Mississippi legislators, sometimes in horror, but mostly to get a chuckle. Sure, there’s usually some important ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, March 6, 2017 6:34 am
Columns
The Trump-free zone
Early in this new presidential administration, and earlier still in my latest writing venture, I’m considering making my columns a Trump-free zone. Starting, obviously, not ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, February 27, 2017 12:40 pm
Columns
Sweet Home Mississippi
It’s great to be back. By “back,” I don’t mean in the geographic sense. A Mississippi native, I’m currently on Long Island, outside New York ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, February 20, 2017 6:23 am
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