by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 28, 2013 | Opinion
I’ve refrained from comment on the ongoing flap over “Duck Dynasty” partriarch Phil Robertson’s comments about homosexuality in part because it seemed that more than enough had been said, and in part because the whole thing just seemed too...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 24, 2013 | Opinion
I don’t have many Christmas traditions, but there is one thing I try to do every year: at some point during the Christmas season, I watch Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas. The 48-minute muppet special first aired in 1977, so it’s been a part of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 20, 2013 | Opinion
After living in North Carolina for 34 years, I finally got around to visiting the Biltmore House, famously known as America’s largest private home. At 250 rooms and almost 180,000 square feet, the French Renaissance structure has few competitors. I confess to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 18, 2013 | Opinion
The appropriately massive memorial service for anti-apartheid activist and former South African president Nelson Mandela monopolized the news Dec. 10, as thousands gathered in a driving rain to hear an ark-load of speeches from political and religious leaders from...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 18, 2013 | Opinion
Daniel’s cryptic reference to a three-and-a-half year period for the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes comes to mind when I try to get my head around what time it is. It’s the last week of the semester and the middle of the Advent season, but I’m...
