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BOB BROWN: The Recent Sale of the Brooklyn Bridge, Part One

The 2025 election results in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Seattle are troubling to me, a student of the human mind. The election of “democratic socialists,” and the...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s “Great Gatsby Party” At His Mar-a-Lago Club on October 31 Was In Poor Taste

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is our country’s largest anti-hunger program for men,...

FRED FIRST: Winter is Coming: Make Ready!

Though a few poetic souls and tree-hugging types like me will make soft cooing noises...

BOB BROWN: “I don’t see how I can go on like this”

The round, sad Asian American face of the 26-year-old single Soldier sitting uncomfortably in front...

SCOT BELLAVIA: God in the Library

Talking to strangers about God is a muscle I don’t work very often. But I...

A Little History on What Month You’re In and Why

As we move from July into August, all thoughts turn to sandy beaches, lazy afternoons, and the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, the year...

A Move From Black Death to Sustainability?

The numbers are beyond comprehension for the global catastrophe that continues to unfold in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven human deaths.  Thirty species of...

Where Canines Fail Can Felines Fill In?

Friends, following my last column in which I described the increased population of rodents in my neighborhood as a burgeoning concern, I was...

The Season of Spiders Draws Nigh

It is now officially the middle of summer—not the weatherman official but the Goose Creek local-native official middle of the summer. And so...

Recipe of the Week: Shrimp Tacos

We should not define ourselves by our profession or by our children or by where we live or by how much money we have...

Processed Foods Found to Be as Addictive as Drugs

Hey Mister, can you help me out?  I need a fix.  Can you lend me for a Big Mac? In a newly released...