Here's a thought experiment: Can any of you recall what Guy Reschenthaler - our congressman - actually looks like? I recollect him as a tall, lean fella, with a strong chin and crystalline eyes. Think actor Jon Hamm, only better looking and in infinitely better shape. Now I may be wrong, ...
"... I owe my soul to the company store." The finger-snapping 1950's song "Sixteen Tons" performed by Tennessee Ernie Ford tells the story of a luckless coal miner who works and works while digging himself deeper into debt, all because of meager wages and the credit he's used to buy food and ...
It's almost certain Democrats will have a majority in the House of Representatives, and maybe control of the Senate, come January 2027. All of this as a result of Donald Trump's unpopularity due largely to the administration's debacle in Iran and the tie-up of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, ...
As recently as early summer, artificial intelligence, or AI, was far from the center of public concern or worry. Now, it's at center stage, though to many it remains a mystery. During a recent class reunion, a friend confided that AI was a head-scratcher. "I don't know anything about it," he ...
At the height of mourning for President John F. Kennedy following his assassination, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, felt herself under pressure to buckle to demands that the national performing arts center planned for Washington, D.C., be named after her husband. She protested. "I don't think ...
The hero of the American Revolution had certain attributes. One was an exacting nature. George Washington insisted on doing things right. That accounts for his chagrin upon seeing for the first time, in September 1784, the mill he owned at present-day Perryopolis. The mill, he wrote, was in ...
