You know how you convince yourself that you absolutely hate something, only to discover that — as it turns out — you actually love it?When I was a lad of 8 or 9 years of age, I’d somehow convinced myself that I hated cheesecake. I’d never even tried the stuff, but just the combination ...
Have you any idea how difficult it is to responsibly dispose of more than 500 plastic one-gallon milk jugs?It’s nowhere near as easy as one might think. As proof, I offer Exhibit A: I’ve been driving around for the last couple of weeks with the bed of my pickup truck filled nearly to the ...
A football player refuses to stand for the national anthem, and suddenly he’s the fourth-most-hated person in America.How does that happen?One can at least understand why Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton make the list. But Colin Kaepernick? To borrow from the “<a ...
The registered trademark for the pharmaceutical company Mylan is the three-word slogan, “Seeing is believing.”Well, I’ve seen it, and I still don’t believe it.Indeed, many of us have road rash on our chins after hearing tales of the amazingly pricey EpiPen. In a world where old ...
Aside from an astronaut, a rock star, and a professional athlete, there were only two things I ever wanted to do when I grew up.Write, or teach.I weighed both options back in college (the ships having long since set sail on those first three career choices) before deciding on a journalism ...
Don’t you just hate it when <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> is right?Tuesday night, following a speech at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, Trump took to Twitter and called the media “desperate.” He’s right, you ...
