by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 2, 2012 | Opinion
Back in the 1960s, Post cereals promoted its popular “Sugar Crisp” cereal with a singing cartoon character named Sugar Bear, who had first appeared on the Saturday morning “Linus the Lionhearted” cartoon show. Sugar Bear was sort of an ursine...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 31, 2012 | Opinion
With “Frankenstorm” Sandy finally dissipating and glimpses of sunshine returning to the East Coast, the most frightening thing remaining are the campaign commercials, each one an attempt to decapitate an opposing candidate through tactics ranging from...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 29, 2012 | Opinion
It seems lame to say — after they swept the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series — that I was pulling for the San Francisco Giants. The odd thing is how I came to care. Photo: Russell Yip, The Chronicle / SF Baseball is not generally high on my radar...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 26, 2012 | Opinion
When I was invited to review Marvin M. Ellison’s Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times (Fortress, 2012), I anticipated something along the lines of a more progressive interpretation of sexual ethics than the one traditionally espoused by the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 24, 2012 | Opinion
I read a lot of stuff relative to the ancient world that probably would not interest the average bear, but occasionally I run across articles that a broader audience of readers might find intriguing, so I thought I’d pass along a few recent links. Have you ever...
