The movie Selma will be released next weekend and is already receiving great acclaim and Oscar buzz for its portrayal of Martin Luther King’s crusade for Civil Rights, centering in the demonstration he organized in Selma, Alabama. But narratives, even apparently factual movies, like to
A time-honored custom is to make New Year’s resolutions, decisions to use the new beginning offered by the new year to improve one’s life in some way. Reportedly, 50% of people make such resolutions, but 89% fail to keep them. This can be seen as
Now that it’s 2015, the next phase of Obamacare kicks in: Employers of more than 100 people must give them insurance benefits. This provision of the Affordable Care Act had been delayed by executive decree, but now it goes into effect. Most employers in
I was greatly disappointed in the third part of Peter Jackson’s makeshift trilogy based on The Hobbit. The Battle of the Five Armies was mostly, to use Milton’s words, tedious havoc. It was two-and-a-half hours of killing orcs, with little story beyond that. But here
I hope you had a big celebration last night and stayed up past midnight to see in the big holiday today. Namely, the commemoration of the circumcision and naming of Jesus, a ceremony that took place one week after His birth. To honor the occasion–and,
Now it’s time for you to make your predictions about what is going to happen in the new year that begins today. Then, on New Year’s Eve of 2015, we will review them to see who is the most far-sighted prognosticator. Again, the more specific,
You readers made some pretty good predictions last year. More than one of you predicted that gasoline prices would drop, that more states would legalize gay marriage and marijuana possession, that the Supreme Court would rule in ways that they did, in fact, rule. Some
The year’s most viewed post by far was not written this year, but rather in July 2011. And it wasn’t written by me, but by my liberal Democratic Southern Baptist musical genius brother, Jimmy. Here it is: The Devil’s interval. People who google this legendary
One of my long-time customs leading up to New Year’s is to read Dave Barry’s annual year in review. I like the month-by-month survey of what happened in the previous year. And that his commentary is hilarious. (more…)
The war in Afghanistan officially ended on Sunday. It lasted 13 years, the longest armed conflict in American history. The number of American and NATO soldiers killed was some 3,500. Once again, the United States ends a costly war far short of victory. In fact,
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