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BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then starts the bedtime rodeo that includes 4 meltdowns, 3 sips of water, 2 more...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Israel’s Second Sum Of All Fears

I first heard about a dirty bomb in early September 1993 when an IBM coworker,...

BOB BROWN: What Happened to Happiness?

We can quibble about the origin, even the definition or meaning of “happiness,” but I’m...

FRED FIRST: Homeward Bound

It would happen: the trip back to Floyd. And then it wouldn’t. And then it...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) Needs To Be Censured

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), who appears to be a self-important crackpot, tried hysterically (without officially...

It’s Time to Take Some Facts for a Walk

Here are three data points that have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.  Nothing at all.  1. The Humane Society estimates that...

We Are Always Teaching

How well do you know your children?  Luckily, most parents would answer that question confidently with an assurance that they know their kids...

Faithful Waiting

A young couple learns that they are pregnant.  The first days upon making this discovery are filled with the waxing and waning sensations of...

What’s An Education For Anyway?

In the 1950s when I attended Mary Baldwin College religious diversity was obvious in our "Day Student Club."  My friends included two Roman...

One Subaru – Sunny Side Up

It was miserable, cold and wet. The wind made the umbrella in my hand a pathetic mockery of shelter from the storm. It would...

Darwin for Modernity

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. On 24 November 2010, the world celebrated the 151st anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin...