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  • Friday Comic: It Could Be Worse0

    “It Could Be Worse.” Credit: OwenComics (store). Twitter: @owenbroadcast. Instagram: @owenbroadcast. ITO Save this article to favorites

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  • The Value of Silence: 3 Thoughts from Proverbs

    The Value of Silence: 3 Thoughts from Proverbs4

    These last few weeks have attacked me with musings on silence. It started with an anonymous quote I couldn’t shake off (“Never miss an opportunity to remain silent”) and threaded its way through my intellectual and social life. I began to see my unwarranted eagerness to speak in classroom discussions, group conversations, and even social

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  • The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting

    The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting1

    I consider myself a scholarly expert on the Berenstain Bears. Not because I’ve actually written any scholarly works on the series of books by Stan and Jan Berenstain, but just because I’m an academic and I have read and reread dozens of Berenstain books for more than a decade with first one daughter and now

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  • California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?

    California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?7

    “I’m going to have to ask you to put your cigarette out.” I was a college student working as a waiter at a Wisconsin restaurant more than twenty years ago when I sheepishly said these words. I didn’t like saying them, and was frustrated I had to. The guest, who was sitting with his date

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  • MrBeast and the Trans Agenda in Gen Z Entertainment

    MrBeast and the Trans Agenda in Gen Z Entertainment6

    Last week the internet was shocked to learn that popular YouTuber MrBeast’s co-host Chris Tyson now fancies himself transgender. After a Twitter user tweeted a picture of a newly effeminate Tyson and asked what had happened, Tyson replied, “HRT [hormone replacement therapy], and it’s only been 2 months.” If you’re like me, you might be

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  • Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense

    Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense5

    “Stupid is as stupid does.” That saying, popularized by the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, has been around a good while. The expression means that a person’s intelligence can be judged by his actions. Someone can have a law degree from Yale, but if he drives his car at 35 mph on an acceleration ramp while

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  • Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’

    Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’0

    Poetry is not my strong suit, I’m no good at writing verse. My prose may be no better, but at least I could do worse. Oh my gosh, I’m a poet and don’t know it! If it hadn’t been for a couple good English teachers in high school, I might have never read more than

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  • No College Mandates’ Lucia Sinatra Defends Informed Consent

    No College Mandates’ Lucia Sinatra Defends Informed Consent2

    In the view of attorney Lucia Sinatra, allowing college students to have informed consent and the ability to choose or reject COVID-19 vaccination—without fear of losing their educational path—is a simple right of a free people. That’s one reason why she co-founded No College Mandates, an advocacy group fighting for students’ right to make their

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  • ‘Little Platoons’: The Family Will Win

    ‘Little Platoons’: The Family Will Win4

    In my younger years, my mother bought a recording of the musical South Pacific. We kids played it so often that we learned most of the songs by heart. This past week, one of the songs, “Cockeyed Optimist,” as sung by Mitzi Gaynor, kept popping into my head. Here are a few lines: I have

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