Children scream for a variety of reasons. Although always distressing to hear, the underlying cause can usually be identified.
Dave Granlund cartoon on drones and President Obama.
Vacation season is fast approaching, and you know what that means. It’s time to stock up on products that will aid digestion and other troubles that ensue, if you catch my distended drift.
Editors lead a fast-paced, action-filled professional life. The day starts early and ends late, and it’s stem-to-stern packed with sitting and staring at text on a computer screen in hopes of finding a misplaced comma or a conjunction in the wrong font. It’s not for those who pale at the sight of a clumsy prepositional phrase.
Dave Granlund cartoon on Anthony Weiner running for mayor of New York City.
Forty years ago in the dark ages of air travel, in-flight entertainment was not nearly as advanced as it is today. Back when I was a kid, all they had were drop down screens from the ceiling that showed one movie. Today most planes have personal video screens at each seat with a hundred channels and thirty movies to choose from, as well as video games, dining options, and shopping. True, you have to get practically butt naked to go through security, pack all your toiletries in containers the size of a lipstick, and pay extra for just about everything, including your luggage, food, movies, and eventually, I’m sure, even use of the bathroom.
Weekly financial Q-and-A, with advice on moving and paying off a mortgage.
It turns out that sitting in a rental car beside the speaker at a drive-through restaurant is a bad time to try to figure out where on the door you can find the switch that rolls down the window.
It was entirely unremarkable. As a newsman, that is usually the worst possible condition. Events that are really good or really bad tend to be far more noteworthy. But when Dawit took the field for his first tee ball game, it was entirely unremarkable.
Great Clips, which is a hair salon chain so successful that it does surveys when it’s not cutting people’s hair, has put together a list of the greatest and worst hairstyles of all time. And the sheer effort they were able to expend in doing so proves that society, as a whole, is spending WAY too much time thinking about hair.
On Monday afternoon, it was a big deal to me that my third-grader has trouble catching pop-ups in baseball. I was so happy that he had pulled his B+ math grade up to an A- by the end of the school year. Those things seemed so important. And then a huge tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., and wiped out the Plaza Tower Elementary School.
Disparate “crises” in three corners of the Obama administration, and the efforts of the political establishment to weave them into a single narrative about presidential decline, have so dominated talk in the nation’s capital these last two weeks that you might think nothing else is going on the world.
Last week was a great week for Obama-haters. They’ve been writing and calling me to gloat: Obama’s mired in scandal, they crow. His agenda is stalled. He’s sleazy, tyrannical and incompetent, heading up a corrupt administration – just like we’ve been saying for years. Not so fast.
Columnist Loretta LaRoche says she eventually came to realize that she had put much too much energy into trying to change or manipulate events and people so that they resembled the movie in her mind.
In the decade of the 1950s, WWI veterans were reaching their 60s and 70s, which meant there were many military funerals. Then and now a part of a military funeral is the playing of taps on a trumpet. During that decade I was a high school trumpet player.
My sister loves Facebook. I know that a lot of people do, but she takes it too far. She posts personal information all the time! She even posted about an argument she and I had – something I considered to be a private conversation! Now, our entire family knows about it and I’m really embarrassed. I know it’s her page and I can’t control what she posts, but I think that was really rude. What should I do?
