Robert Kagan鈥檚 鈥渓esson for all time鈥� is that peace 鈥� as in the absence of war among nations 鈥� is most often squandered when threats to the peace 鈥渁re not obvious and the need to do something is not obvious.鈥漈his, it seems obvious to say, makes keeping the peace extremely ...
More children were murdered in their school last week.Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee 鈥� 6 dead, 1 injured.That was followed by the usual flood of tearful 鈥渢houghts and prayers;鈥� feverish speculation about who the culprit might be; more tragic pictures of schoolchildren getting ...
Ed Yankovich has trouble remembering the last big Mitchell Day celebration. Was it five years ago, 10 years ago? Yankovich, former president of the United Mine Workers district headquartered in Uniontown, was unable to pin it down.鈥淚t was somewhere in that period of time,鈥� he said the other ...
Back when I worked in television in the early 1980s, I reviewed hundreds of movies each year.I had one fellow walk up to me and say, 鈥淚 disagree with your review of ...鈥� whatever the movie was.I asked him if he liked that movie. He told me he hadn鈥檛 even seen it. He just wanted to let me ...
I鈥檓 home. The furnace is running. OMG. After a week in balmy Florida, where I dipped into the hotel swimming pool, watched ballgames, and paraded around in shorts and T-shirts, the cold is hardly bearable.Flying from the Gulf Coast to the hill-top airport on the outskirts of Bridgeport, ...
I suppose 鈥渨oke鈥� is now a dirty word.For the better part of a century, the word, 鈥渨oke,鈥� hadn鈥檛 harmed anybody.It had long been a bit of African American vernacular which meant alert, or aware of racial and social injustices.That鈥檚 all.Somehow, folks on the political right, have ...
