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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won the Nathan‘s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which was located at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New...

BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

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...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

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

LIZA FIELD: Not My Job?

Environmental stewardship is everyone’s responsibility, including Congress’s. That is why I worked so diligently ... to protect the Endangered Species Act. —Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth Does the...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Love Your Enemies? Not Likely!

Well, it’s happened again and I don’t suppose anyone is really surprised.  A terribly misguided person (or group) has found it expedient to blow...

LUCKY GARVIN: Lost in Translation

As I have previously written, as a lad I had but two ambitions for later life. One was medicine. But, prior to that, I...

JOY SYLVESTER JOHNSON: Are You A Living Parprosdokian?

A parprosdokian is a sentence which consists of two parts. The first is a well known figure of speech and the second is an...

DICK BAYNTON: Tolerance Revisited

Although the local circulation of our ‘The Roanoke Star.com’ is many thousands, the Internet that is home to our publication has outreach to everyone...

The Great Ignoble Apathy Among 21st Century People of Faith

  During a recent family visit, my 10-year-old nephew asked me what I thought about the current tenant of The White House. I responded, “I...