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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...

LUCKY GARVIN: Dr. Culpepper

I punched in the phone number of my long-time friend, partner and punishment, Dr. Beauregard Stonewall Culpepper. He answered. I began, “Dr. Cul…” “Hold on...

JOY SYLVESTER JOHNSON: We Are Called to Unity Not Uniformity

Most people have two thumbs. I, the ouconsummate overachiever, have ten. In my mind, I still believe it I have the ability to patch the drywall,...

DICK BAYNTON: Amy Wax – Truth Teller

There may not be a single reader of this column who knows the name Amy Wax who has about as many degrees as a...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: An Emerging Emergency  

Sir William Osler, the father of modern medicine, famously said in 1884, “Humans are distinguished from all other species in their desire to take...

DICK BAYNTON: Hatred Is Not A Strategy

It is highly probable that most of us would believe that hatred could be appropriately defined by the plans and actions of Adolf Hitler...

LUCKY GARVIN: Second-Guessing Your Wife

I want to tell you a story; then I’ll tell the rest of the story: Although males and females use the very same words, they...