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She got the call today, one out of the grey And when the smoke cleared, it took her breath away She said she didn’t believe ‘it could happen to me’ I guess we’re all one phone call from our knees We’re gonna get there soon –Mat Kearney, “Closer to Love“ Ten years ago, on September …

Floods of short duration are best, for they don’t allow class envy a chance to bubble to the surface. The reader need merely select any story from the current crop of flood-related articles on the local newspaper’s website, and go to the comments accompanying it. You have your random religious nutter sprinkled in and about …

Several months ago, I watched Frontline’s report entitled Digital Nation. I admit I came to it with a preconceived notion that these darn kids and their digital lives were no good. While I like gadgets and have plenty of my own that I’ve integrated into my life, I still come from a generation in which email didn’t …

Q. How do you know if a columnist is upset about the recent election, but is trying to hide it behind intellectual patronization? A. By making note of the amount of quotation marks used in the column. (e.g. The “voters” made a “decision” and did what they thought “best.”) Interestingly enough, when the Democrats swept …

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been completely confused as to what has been going on in Washington D.C. regarding the health care legislation. At some point I lost track of who was voting for what, and what had passed and what had not. So, I turned to my “official (and anonymous) Capitol …