by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 2, 2013 | Opinion
On Hallowe’en night I was buying gas near Aiken, South Carolina, and was deeply engrossed in washing my windshield when my peripheral vision caught a white mini-van coasting up to the adjoining pump. My attention was focused on a couple of stubborn bug streaks...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 30, 2013 | Opinion
As big cuts in supplemental nutrition programs take effect on Nov. 1, the fast food industry continues to thrive on subsidies from the federal government. There’s no law that says congress will pay $1.2 billion annually to subsidize McDonald’s, for...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 28, 2013 | Opinion
I was working at a card table in front of the TV on Sunday afternoon so I could keep tabs on the Goody’s 500 NASCAR race at Martinsville, and most of the race was typical short-track racing: lots of bumping and shoving, spinouts, and drivers getting...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 25, 2013 | Opinion
You knew it all along, didn’t you — that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine? To lab rats, at least. And I suspect there’s a little rat in all of us. The Oreos don’t even have to be the deep fried variety currently on sale at the North Carolina...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 21, 2013 | Opinion
Perhaps you saw one of the recent articles about how the Kenya Wildlife Service is planning to implant microchips in the horns of every rhino in its country, hoping it will help them to track, capture, and prosecute poachers. Last year, according to the article, 745...
