My wife left town to visit relatives, so I had the fridge and TV all to myself.
Over the past four decades, the rise in childhood obesity has significantly impacted many children, adolescents and adults. The Centers for Disease Control states that 1 in every 5 children in the United States is obese. Children with obesity are at a higher risk for developing chronic healt…
President Donald Trump has warned China that it must respond “humanely” to the protests in Hong Kong if it wants a trade deal, for the first time suggesting that the United States would impose costs on Beijing if it launched a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on the city. It’s about time. Ch…
When it comes to trade policy, President Donald Trump and his adviser Peter Navarro provide endless examples of incoherent economic thinking. They regularly claim that X is true, and then in the next breath, they assert that not-X is also correct. Let’s consider two recent examples.
When it comes to protecting yourself from cancer, don’t take the government’s word. Listen to the experts.
Once, back when my husband was in medical school, he found himself in an elevator with a woman he instantly recognized from something he’d read in the school paper. So he struck up a conversation with her.
For about a decade, I lived in an old dogtrot house. Also known as a dog run house, this vernacular style of home was popular throughout the upper South before electricity, fans and air conditioning. They were built for maximum ventilation, so folks could survive the sweltering hot summers. …
Speaking from the heart, she poured out their family story. Most of the time, we raise children hoping they are prepared to begin their own stories.
We all enjoy plants and flowers, whether in containers in our house or in our garden. We enjoy the bright colors and fragrance they give. We also enjoy our pets and the joy of their companionship and activity. Our pets and plants can coexist nicely with a few precautions.
Given its surplus of violence and scarcity of resources, Chicago surely has bigger things to worry about than the menace, as the city sees it, of Laura Pekarik’s cupcakes. Herewith redundant evidence of regulatory government’s unsleeping solicitousness for the strong.
Every year I get numerous phone calls from East Texas pond owners who lose partial or all their farm pond fish population to oxygen depletion. Oxygen depletion is not the only cause of fish die-offs in Texas ponds, but about 85% of the time it is the most common cause of fish kills. Pond own…
There is discrimination of all sorts, and that includes racial discrimination. Thus, it’s somewhat foolhardy to debate the existence of racial discrimination yesteryear or today. From a policy point of view, a far more useful question to ask is: How much of the plight of many blacks can be e…
Regimes, however intellectually disreputable, rarely are unable to attract intellectuals eager to rationalize the regimes’ behavior. America’s current administration has “national conservatives.” They advocate unprecedented expansion of government in order to purge America of excessive respe…
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They used to be as common as sonic booms.
When we were little kids getting ready to return to school during the last few weeks of summer vacation, the school supply list was pretty simple: a Big Chief Tablet, No. 2 pencils, the trapezoid-shaped eraser, notebook paper, spiral notebooks, a jar of paste, a bottle of glue, maybe some co…
The Better Business Bureau is warning seniors to be on the lookout for scam artists posing as DNA testers in an attempt to obtain Medicare numbers and other personal information. Also referred to as buccal swab tests, the process involves collecting DNA cells from inside an individual’s chec…
As soon as authorities said they suspected the El Paso mass shooter was the author of a hate-filled, white-supremacist online manifesto, Democrats began blaming President Donald Trump. “He is a racist,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., “and we’ve seen the consequences of it.” Sen. Bernie…
During the Labor Day holiday, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will partner with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to get drunken drivers off the roads and help save lives.
What do the French digital services tax, the employers’ share of payroll taxes and the corporate income tax all have in common? They are rarely shouldered by those entities and individuals targeted by legislators. In fact, one of the most important things to know about taxes is that the peop…
A friend of mine recently sent me a link to an article that I’ve had a hard time wrapping my mind around. The author was investigating “the growing movement of women who wish they’d never had kids.”
What do Pablo Picasso, Howard Hughes, Sonny Bono and Prince all have in common? Interestingly enough, despite all of their fame and fortune (and the myriad friends, associates, managers and advisers they must have had during their lifetimes), they all died without a will. According to a 2018…
I’ve been growing yellow squash (Cucurbita pepo melopepo) all of my life, because it’s my Momma’s favorite vegetable. One year she told me she could eat her weight in squash, so I planted an entire row for her. You should have heard her squeal when I showed up with 300 pounds of yellow squas…
Editor’s Note: This column, written by Smith County Master Gardener Tommie Grinnell, appeared in Texas Gardener Magazinie. It is reprinted with permission.
“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.”
