by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 16, 2009 | Opinion
Here’s a bill that should have no trouble making it through Congress: on Tuesday the House of Representatives approved a bill to ban the abrupt increase in volume that’s all too typical of television commercials. An identical bill is making its way through...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 14, 2009 | Opinion
With my schedule based on a university calendar and a son in a year round middle school, our family is prone to taking vacations at odd times of the year.So here we are, in the middle of December, in a nearly deserted oceanfront resort in Virginia Beach. From our...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 11, 2009 | Opinion
I confess that, though I started it twice, I never made it all the way through Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I’m not at all afraid of long books, but I could never stir up much interest in the Napoleonic wars or the aristocratic Russian families affected by...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 9, 2009 | Opinion
Andy Schlafly’s “Conservative Bible Project” has been getting far more attention than it deserves already, but its agenda is worrisome enough to deserve comment nonetheless. Schlafly, the son of arch-conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 7, 2009 | Opinion
To my knowledge, “Duck Tuesday” does not exist outside my own skull, but I’d like to propose it as a new addition to the “get ready for Christmas” calendar. In recent years we’ve become accustomed to “Black Friday” and...
