Tag Archives: Society

Olga Ivanovna is trapped in a small town. She leaps around, collecting every visiting "star", every scrap of local talent.

Here's the background and more on South Dakota's effort to pass an abortion ban that legislators hope will result in overturning Roe v. Wade

No hospitalized person, much less a wounded service member, deserves this particular kind of attention.

The ninth edition of the Carnival of Feminists led me to conduct a "count".

Is Bill Clinton not the quintessential baby boomer, exemplifying the towering contradictions of a generation? Clinton, who will turn 60 this August, embodies the precocious intellectualism, professional competence, gregarious openness, and idealistic good will of the tumescent cohort born between 1946 and 1964; yet our 42nd president seems unable to …

Presidents Day is little more than a three-day weekend and an excuse for retail promotions to most of us; something vaguely attached to the February birthdays of our most renowned presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But don’t all 43 chief execs, the men who have led our nation through …

Some lessons take longer to learn then others, but I think I've finally understood the meaning of lists.

All species, even ones like this that seem to have no redeeming qualities in terms of what they give back to the planet, have a role to play.

A look at various advertisements in this week’s local newspapers clearly seems to weigh in on the side of Lincoln and Washington.

...one of those rare occurrences where the music hasn't suffered to get the message out.