It’s not always easy to come up with a headline for a newspaper story that will grab people’s attention and make them read the story. You know you’ve failed if the headline is interesting. If it’s racially offensive, however, that means you’ve really screwed up. The Antigo Daily Journal, a newspaper in northern Wisconsin, had…

There’s just more than a week remaining until the 51st Super Bowl, a time-honored tradition where two football teams compete to be the best in the land—and companies spend big-time bucks to come up with the craziest commercials imaginable to get you to buy their products. If you’re living in Georgia or the New England…

When you go in to get your hair cut, you’ll tend to get someone who wants to chat. Sometimes, the discussion will be interesting, but there are times when you feel the barber is chatting just to fill the air with noise. When Birdie spoke, however, it was usually wise to pay attention. With the…

In America, we take freedom of speech very seriously. It’s what the country was founded on, and whenever anyone tries to tread on our civil liberties, we come out swinging. Many of those strike-backs are justified, but some are not. The Daily Courier, the daily paper that covered where I grew up in Chino Valley,…

You have to wonder how screwed up someone has to be in order to prey on someone weaker than them. You also have to wonder how stupid they are in order to film said predatory act and run it live on Facebook for the whole world to see. America got to see the latest effort…

When Donald Trump was on the campaign trail, one of his campaign promises was to “drain the swamp” in Washington. It looks like he might want to start in his own house—that is, the House of Representatives. Republicans met prior to the start of the 115th Congress this week and voted, over the objections of…

I’m sitting here early on Christmas morning, darkness still outside—except for the ever-glowing string of Christmas lights on the tree and fence at my next door neighbor’s house. Every Christmas is a little different, but I was a little surprised to be conscious before 5 a.m. I finally got all the presents wrapped. It’s ironic…

While December is known as the Christmas season, it also marks the start of winter. After nearly three months of going from hot to cold and seeing the leaves change color and fall off the trees, we’re rewarded with snow. Most folks around where I live in Shawano find it hard to believe that Arizona…

You live your life playing by the rules, not mooching off the world or sticking it to innocent people, and are you rewarded for it? Not if you’re trying to buy a car. For the last six-and-a-half years, I’ve driven a 2004 Chrysler Sebring with hardly a problem. I’ve had to replace the battery and…

We’re on the eve of one of the biggest elections in recent memory. We’re also nearing the end of a long, nightmarish year where we, the American people, have been bombarded by the most negative political campaigns for the presidency that anyone can remember. We’ve got two main candidates that most voters wish they could…

There are plenty of us who would love to live forever. Besides the uncertainty some of us have, based on our actions in life, about whether or not we’re going to heaven or hell, there’s also the reality that death has become such a rigid affair. As Exhibit A, I present to you a recent…