I took this month’s Dark and Stormy Book Club selection, The Book Thief, with me to the beach last week. (Little light reading on WWII-era Germany for the beach, Bo? Well, yeah. I don’t have any need for reading levity on vacation. One of the best ones I ever took was a survivor’s account of … Read more
Back when the cost of a fill-up was closer to a lunch check than the electric bill, I heard a (self-identified liberal) member of my family bitching about “the conservatives trying to take away our SUVs.” This gave me pause, for it’s generally on the political left that the loudest environmentalist voices are heard. “How … Read more
“It sounds like Central Collections has become a black hole,” Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield said Monday, during a Dallas County, Texas commissioners’ meeting. And somebody screamed racism. Commissioner John Wiley Price said “black hole” was a racist term, and also indicted “angel food cake” and “devil’s food cake” in his tirade. This has understandably drawn comparisons … Read more