by John D. Pierce | Sep 4, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce My lack of a strong interest in the current national political scene saves time and a good bit of frustration. However, it does produce a slither of guilt — since buying in long ago to the importance of being an informed voter. But I think enough...
by Leroy Seat | Sep 4, 2012 | Opinion
Every public speaker dreads them, but from time to time most make them anyway. I am referring to what are often called slips of the tongue. Or as Rev. William Archibald Spooner might say, tips of the slung. Spooner, who died Aug. 29, 1930, was an Englishman whose name...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Sep 4, 2012 | Opinion
The attitude of many laypersons to scientific and technical matters is one of reverence. They will drink in the fake profundities of, say, television science programs with a credulity quite as remarkable as that of any religious fundamentalist. Any statement has only...
by Trevor Barton | Sep 4, 2012 | Opinion
I love to receive letters. When I was a little boy, I lived on a long, straight street and could see the mail truck coming from a long way off. After the mailman stopped in front of our house, I ran down our front walkway with hope in my heart, between our two giant...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 3, 2012 | Opinion
I hate the very idea of war. Violence, guns, bombs — situations in which people equally devoted to their cause (or drafted into fighting) shoot or bomb and kill or wound each other — nothing about that is appealing. So why do I remain enamored with...
by Chuck Queen | Sep 3, 2012 | Opinion
In a go-go world, what could be worse than silence, being still, doing nothing? It is the “doing nothing” that engenders guilt and anxiety, that evokes fear. This is precisely why we so desperately need stillness. Stillness strips us of our illusions that...
