by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 8, 2013 | Opinion
I have probably taken pictures of them, just children, young girls holding neon-colored signs like “God hates fags.” They couldn’t have been old enough to understand what the sign meant, but the indoctrination imposed upon Fred Phielps’...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 7, 2013 | Opinion
North Carolina’s new governor has raised the ire of educators in the state’s university system by suggesting that the only purpose of higher education worth funding is training that will lead directly to jobs. I suspect he’s not the only governor...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 6, 2013 | Opinion
Lord, don’t we love to call others culpable. Even when there’s no skin off our nose, we enjoy the chance to put the onus on folk who might possibly be responsible for any sort of misfortune. Sometimes people deserve it, of course. But sometimes things just...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 4, 2013 | Opinion
You can tell a lot about a person by what he or she leaves behind. That would be particularly true when someone dies and family members or friends pick through the finances, belongings, or correspondence of the deceased. Was the person a giver or a hoarder? A saver or...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 1, 2013 | Opinion
A couple of thoughts that follow on two earlier blogs … Last Friday I meandered on the subject of living and walking positively, with one’s head up, as opposed to stumbling along heads-down in a perpetual pity party. Photo from allaboutbirds.comI’ve...
