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ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I do I watch maybe two or three. I prefer to watch innings because frankly...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again–home for almost 40 years, and...

SCOT BELLAVIA: Am I Proud to Be an American?

How proud are you to be an American? I posted that question on Facebook a few...

BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers...

DICK BAYNTON: Independence Day #242, 2018

Not everyone realizes that The Revolutionary War lasted over 8 years - from 1775 to 1783. Officially, the conflict began when the Colonial Militia...

The Bears of Kings Canyon

The hand-written notice at the campground registration kiosk is an eyebrow-raiser. It says, "Attention: Bears have been breaking into cars here. DO NOT store...

DON RIPPERT: Virginia is For Lov . . . Er, Haters. 

Perhaps we need to revisit Virginia’s public accommodation laws. A sad scene unfolded in Lexington, VA last Friday evening.  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s Press...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Is The Sky Really Falling?

Back in the day when bedtime stories were read to children, one of the favorites was that of Henny-Penny, the chicken that had an...

JOY SYLVESTER JOHNSON: Vanishing Discretion

At age three my grand daughter Faryn has no shame about her body. In fact she is happiest sans any clothes at all. All...

BRUCE RINKER: Fragmented Schooling

Mitchell Thomashow is an eminent science educator and writer who founded the Environmental Studies program at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH....