January 1, 2010 RSS feed / Opinion/Crime

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Visit The Dead Librarian to find your roots

Photo and story by Julia Rogers Hook
When a person is in search of their history, sometimes it’s the dead who speak the loudest and tell them the most, according to Debbie Bloom, Columbia’s Richland County Library local history manager and creator of the Dead Librarian blog. More...

The hunter and bald eagle

Spaulding is a novice hunter who gets busted in the mountain wilderness by a U. S. Forest Ranger. He’s charged with eating a bald eagle! That’s about as un–American as anything I can think of — eating our national bird. More...

It’s not a criticism; It’s an observation

The Pope and ET
By Mike Cox

When Copernicus denounced the Ptolemaic theory in 1514 and claimed the sun was the center of the universe and the Earth rotated around it, the whole world of science changed. From that moment on every theory and study about outer space was altered. More...

Forty Something

Just rub an onion on it
By Mike Maddock

In my most recent battle with the aging process, I’ve discovered the fountain of youth is apparently overflowing with pigeon pea paste. More...


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