May 21, 2010 RSS feed / Opinion/Crime

Forty– something

Parental intelligence varies with age

Some wonder why teenage kids often believe their parents are (to put it nicely) slightly less than intelligent. More...

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a slick and slimy killer one of the u.S.’s worst environmental disasters

When I was a kid our family lived in Mobile, Alabama. We enjoyed the “fish jubilee” over on the Baldwin County side of Mobile Bay. More...

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

reliving old movies

I watched Ernest Borgnine as Ragnar rape and pillage the Irish countryside in The Vikings before I could drive. The movie featured marauding savages terrorizing English rich folks, and then partying like it was 999. More...

Don’t tell my mom

Vinny is 17 years old and has already dropped out of school. He thinks he’s a really cool tough guy and can make money by preying on “suckers,” as he calls them. More...