October 11, 2011 One of the corners from which some measure of support came for Hank Williams Jr. after his comments on last week's "Fox & Friends" program was Whoopi Goldberg on "The View." This morning, Hank Jr. pa
October 10, 2011
October 6, 2011 The firestorm created by Hank Williams Jr.'s comments regarding the President Barack Obama/House Speaker John Boehner golf outing earlier this week seems to have legs. ESPN is now saying they aren't just discontinuing Hank'
September 26, 2011 I go to Kroger. And I love the U-Scan--you know, the device that lets you check yourself out. They have similar self-service at Wal-mart. It's convenient. It's fast. And, sometimes...it's a nuisance.
This week, things start getting interesting in college football with a handful of conference games, a couple of contests between ranked teams and, arguably, the non-conference game of the year under the lights in Tallahassee. Here are the highlights for the Top 25:
September 15, 2011 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I believe those rights are designated as unalienable. So, hopefully, when we exercise those rights, we won't be relieved of our duties. Let's take the argument to Michigan.
September 14, 2011 Photos in the September 12th issue of the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer of Pfc. Brandon S. Mullins' graveside service struck me so, that I decided to A) save the newspaper, and B) write about saving newspapers. My father had always done that. My mother still does. My sister and I have hung on to a few. It seems to be a family trait—an unusual one, maybe, but a trait nonetheless. But as I was locating old newspapers and clips, I noticed something at the bottom of a basket in my mother’s living room. It was a scrapbook—and a game changer. As it turns out, it was a scrapbook full of history. So I altered my plans.
September 13, 2011 You know the rules at work, right? If you have a unisex bathroom, leave the toilet seat up. If there’s less than inch of coffee at the bottom of the pot, empty it before it burns and smells like brimstone. Same with popcorn—monitor, monitor, monitor, or it will stink. And above all, LOCK THE DOORS! There are many more, but for the sake of social sanctity on the job, let’s not break these. There are some, however, that you can! Let’s investigate.
When the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, the surrounding streets were enshrouded in plumes of smoke and massive clouds of dust.
Artist Xu Bing collected much of this dust and ten years later has used it as material for an installation called Where Does the Dust Collect? Blowing the dust onto the floor of an exhibition space with a leaf blower, he then stenciled a zen poem into it.
Working with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the oral history project StoryCorps is on a mission to record at least one story honoring each of the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center that occurred on February 26, 1993 and on September 11, 2001.
The victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were remembered at a ceremony marking the 10-year anniversary of the tragic events on Sunday.
