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WRITE ON: Black Thursday and the Wyoming Wingnuts
Here's a question: Where did you learn how to read? I don't remember anybody teaching me but obviously somebody did. I do remember lots of classes later on about grammar, usage, punctuation,
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WRITE ON: The World Is Too Much With Us
When I was just a little boy, back in the days when sex was dirty and the air was clean, I got caught smoking by my parents. They had hosted a party the night before, and I got up before them on the morning after. I made a bee line straight for the "rec room" in the basement of our house in
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WRITE ON: On Civility
There is an old joke about two men arguing with each other. Finally, one says to the other: "You're an idiot!" To which the other man responds: "I'd like a second opinion." The first man replies: "Okay-- you're ugly, too."
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WRITE ON: Tacky
Tacky. The word means showy, gaudy, characterized by a lack of good breeding, and in just plain poor taste. It was the first word that popped into my head when I heard that the Clintons -- former President Bill and Secretary of State Hillary -- were about to spend between two and four million
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WRITE ON: My Guilty Television Pleasures
99% of what's on television is a complete waste of time. I wonder if we can agree on that. It is time which could be better spent on other things. But watch we do, either out of laziness, a lack of creativity, or because not watching would bring other things into play -- like talking to each other or
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WRITE ON: What We Hold In Our Hands
It's probably a good thing animals can't talk. I don't think we'd like to hear what they have to say. If it were possible for the other creatures on this planet to speak, what would they be telling us?
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WRITE ON: "Bugly"
This morning a poem popped into my head for no good reason other than there's so much empty space to fill up there:
"Bugly"Some wild critters give us the jitters
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WRITE ON: Letting The (Super) Market Decide
As a writer I am fascinated by words. The invention of language was perhaps man's greatest achievement. Think of what life would be like without it. Can you even imagine a world without words? We've gone from a primitive past before language to a present with more words in the English language than you can shake a stick (or a spear) at. Shakespeare's love of the language was ironically displayed in
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The Debt Relief Rip-off
It's a fairytale so tragic, there's no prince to break the spell
But now I'm counting on a miracle.
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WRITE ON: "A Sea of Troubles"
When Hamlet talks of facing a "sea of troubles," he might as well be referring to what is currently washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. At the time he says this, Hamlet is considering suicide. Now comes word of a charter boat captain with the oddly
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