Oh, yeah, Easter in the 1950s. A time when the Easter Bunny wasn鈥檛 either a capitalistic corporate mascot or CGI nightmare, but a slightly disquieting, floppy-eared creature you might encounter in a department store, smelling a little like second-hand cigarette smoke. For kids like me, ...
Cheers: Cheers to Carmichaels softball pitcher Bailey Barnyak for reaching a career milestone in the Lady Mikes' 9-1 win over visiting West Greene last Friday. Barnyak struck out 14 batters in the game, including freshman Katie Brudnock in the third inning for No. 500 of her career. As ...
Drivers of a certain age might recall the days before cellphones encroached on our lives. It was an era free from constant communication with spouses, friends, co-workers and bosses. No text messages, no emails, no phone calls. No calendar alerts pinging reminders of forgotten ...
Cheers: High-fives to the Titanium Titans Robotics Team, whose members will be traveling to Houston, Texas, next week to participate in the FIRST Championship, a global competition for high school robotics teams. Fresh off an award-winning regional showing last week in Tennessee with its ...
Capitalism recognizes individual effort, private ownership, and the pursuit of financial independence through hard work, innovation and competition. Unregulated savage capitalism prioritizes profit over social well-being. A ...
As a 16-year-old, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, my world stopped. Of course, we had no information about his very active social life, his purported involvement with the significant other of a Mafia figure, the hatred from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the anti-Castro ...
