The National Lampoon magazine may no longer exist, which is something of a tragedy. There were so many wonderful things about it, from “Mrs. Agnew’s Diary” to Vinny Shinblind, the invisible sex maniac. There were stories that became movies and magazine parodies that were unsurpassed. But it was the Letters to the Editor section that …
As much as I hate to admit it, the apparently successful 50-year crusade to reverse Roe v Wade isn’t about protecting children or even babies. It’s about controlling women. and always has been. When Roe gave American women the right to safe and legal abortions in 1973, guess what other unrelated right they got a …
When I was little, back in the days of Howdy Doody, Davy Crockett and the Mouseketeers, I used to ask my mother a question. If there is Mothers Day and Fathers Day, why isn’t there a Children’s Day? Of course her response was that every day is Children’s Day. Whether that’s true or not, mothers …
If the news out of Washington is true, and if the Supreme Court is about to overturn Roe v Wade, all I can say is that it was pretty much inevitable. Ever since Mitch McConnell essentially stole two seats on the court, a solid right-wing majority has been poised to take down Roe and take …
I grew up thinking Pete Rose was a wonderful player. From the time I was 13 or 14 and for the next 20 years or so, he was my favorite athlete. When I became a professional sportswriter, I interviewed him four times — in 1982, ’84, ’85 and then in the early ’90s after he …
I’ll bet you didn’t know that when Congress voted on the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery, Connecticut voted to keep slavery. Actually, it didn’t happen that way. But if you saw Stephen Spielberg’s movie “Lincoln,” the screenwriters made it happen that way because they thought it would be more dramatic. I’ll bet you didn’t know …
“You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear. You’ve got to be taught from year to year. It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear. You’ve got to be carefully taught.” Hating people who are different from ourselves isn’t something that is hard wired into our brains. When Richard Rodgers wrote “You’ve …
Many people work hard at the necessities of parenting. It is literally the most important thing many of us will ever do in our lives. My daughter and her husband are wonderful parents to the six children in their blended family, and one of the things truly special about them is the effort they put …
Am I an American … or a Georgian? Are my rights restricted by the state in which I live, or do I have additional rights because of my residence? There are plenty of states with a live-and-let-live attitude, tolerant of people who are different and live outside the mainstream, and others are much more live …
I’m proud I had the opportunity in the last election cycle to vote against David Perdue. Twice. If only I lived one Congressional district to the northwest, I could take pride in voting against the Klan Moim, Marjorie Taylor Greene. And I will probably get the chance this fall to vote against Herschel Walker, Brian …
