by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 14, 2013 | Opinion
AP photo from foxnews.com, weapons from a gun buy-back program in Trenton, NJ.It’s enough to make you puke. As if North Carolina’s super-majority right-wing legislature hasn’t done enough to flaunt its power and make life harder for many of its...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 12, 2013 | Opinion
The current income disparity in the U.S. is enough to make most anyone despair — at least those outside the top ten percent. The rich have made out like bandits during the recovery from our most recent greed-induced “great recession,” while poor and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 9, 2013 | Opinion
“Green,” by Nathan SawayaHere’s a double-entendre for you — haven’t we all felt like this guy at some point? As if we wanted to just rip our heads right off? And the other side of the heads up: if you’d like to see some amazing art...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 5, 2013 | Opinion
Like many other people (especially older ones), I took note of the announcement that cognitive scientists have tested a video game that they say “can improve the short term memory and long term focus of older adults,” according to an article in the New...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 2, 2013 | Opinion
My cousin Rae Stribling died over the weekend, and one of God’s most unique people has made the transition from corporality to memory. Rae as a girl, along with my father (top) and my uncle Tom. Rae was my grandmother’s sister’s daughter and a...