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A snollygoster? No, just an independent thinker
The voice in my phone said, “We’re not selling anything.” Doubting that, I waited for the revelation, which soon followed. The call was a political ...
The voice in my phone said, “We’re not selling anything.” Doubting that, I waited for the revelation, which soon followed. The call was a political ...
Editor’s note. This is the first in a two-part series. The second can be found here.. In the beginning they were immigrants or pilgrims, fleeing ...
Editor’s note: This is the conclusion of a two-part column on this topic. The first installment can be found here. Since the middle of the ...
How is your aging going? Are there more surprises like wrinkles or more gray hairs than a while back? Do you need more sleep? Has ...
The average human’s attention span is…oh look, a bird! Has that happened to you? As your brain began the activity of saying something to someone, ...
Newspapers work to include a myriad of subject pieces to attract readers. For some, there is news, while for others the attraction might be a ...
Not being a subscriber to the New York Daily News, I cannot attest to the quality of that publication. But as a retired English professor, ...
Have you ever heard the question “What’s in a name?” When people ask that, it is often meant as a rhetorical inquiry, not with an ...
In the door pocket of my car is a much folded and unfolded map of Lafayette County. With it is a red magic marker, which ...
Some gossamer memory recently unleashed a veritable flood of questions. For some reason, the question of the cars I have owned came up. Mostly — ...
If my memory serves — and it often doesn’t — the first time I heard “post” used other than in “posthole digger” was in graduate ...
Times, they are a’changing! What with all the talk these days about words that are not to be used in public, one almost needs a ...
Finding television programs that are worth watching gets more difficult as time passes. A remote control device almost becomes an extension of the right hand. ...
SEC teams are on Monday’s college basketball schedule in one game, the Texas A&M Aggies taking on the…
The contests on the Monday college basketball schedule for which we have suggested picks against the spread include…
There are two games on the college basketball schedule on Monday that feature a ranked squad. That includes…
The Arizona Wildcats and the Baylor Bears take the court in one of two games on the college…
Five games on the Monday college basketball schedule feature a ranked team, including the matchup between the Duke…