TIMES HAVE CHANGED
When I was a little kid, it never occurred to my classmates and I that some crazed adult might burst into the elementary school and attempt to murder us. Back in that day,...
PEARL HARBOR DAY
December 7, 1941, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt correctly predicted would live in infamy. What followed reshaped the world, and very much shaped my generation, the boomers, because our parents and our culture had...
TOXIN-ANTI-TOXIN: A HERO’S STORY
In medicine, grave circumstances sometimes require toxin-anti-toxin therapy: poison against poison. Chemotherapy may make a cancer patient feel sick in different ways, but it can save the patient’s life; therapeutic radiation may have ugly...
TAKING CARE WITH MIDSUMMER OUTDOOR ACTIVITY
So, here we are in the dead of summer. It’s a safe bet that “Backwoods Home” kinda folks are outdoor kinda folks, and whether it’s work or play, are gonna be out in the...
FRESH TAKES ON RECENTLY DISCUSSED ISSUES
We’ve been discussing the “high capacity magazine controversy” here of late, and it’s good to see someone getting the message across in mainstream media. Here’s what novelist/critic Stephen Hunter, one of the best writers...