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Today's Opinions

  • COLUMN: Hooray for Hollywood!

    The Oscar nominations are in, and the 85th annual Academy Awards will be aired on Sunday, Feb. 24, so make sure you watch to see who goes home with the gold.

    And by the way, I read that gold 14-inch high statue weighs more than eight pounds and costs $500 to make. 

    The Oscars are one of my favorite awards presentations. When my favorite stars walk the red carpet, I can see the worst- and best-dressed in all the latest fashion. I love playing fashion police. 

    Joan Rivers and I could have a blast. Her wit is a little quicker than mine, though.

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  • COLUMN: Reasons to laugh in seasons of sadness

    Most of us know what it’s like to laugh at the wrong time.

    The character Ray Barone in the sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond, got himself in a peck of trouble when his wife Debra confided in him that her parents were getting a divorce. Typical of Raymond, instead of being empathic, he found the situation laughable and couldn’t restrain his snicker. Debra made him pay severally for his faux pas.

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  • COLUMN: Army comatives

    Combatives: A term popularized by the United States Army referring to hand-to-hand combat training. 

    I’m getting old.

    I first enlisted into the military in 1975.

    Yep, I’ve seen a bunch during nine years of active duty and another 29 years of reserve time in both the Navy and the Army. The trouble is, as I near 55, I just can’t remember much of it anymore.

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  • Things are never as they seem

    I’m guilty of a grievous breech of southern etiquette.  I fail to wave back to people when driving down the road.  
    If you’ve ever waved to me when you’ve seen me driving then please don’t take offense if I didn’t wave back. I never see anything except those white and yellow lines while driving down the road. I never look into other people’s cars while driving. I didn’t even know that people were waving to me until my kids mentioned it one day.  

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  • The unforgiving nature of the Internet

    The Internet: That daily source of information upon which so many of us depend for so much —from the daily news to updates on friends and their status — cannot only be an avenue offering help for today and even hope for tomorrow, but also unfortunately, an escort to our demise, bouncing us along the boulevard of broken dreams, pointing us finally to the exit ramp that lands us in a parking lot bound by past mistakes.

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  • St. Dominic's hosts 'Night of Knights'

    St. Dominic Elementary School will host its inaugural “Night of Knights” alumni celebration on Feb. 9 at St. Dominic Parish Community Center. I’ll give you a little more information about this at the end of the column.
    But first, as in all good schools, let’s have a history lesson.

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  • LETTER: Reader disagrees about gun control comments

     To the editor: 

    This is in reference to my friend Ken Begley’s column last week (“NRA: Shooting from the hip”). 

    He has let the horror of the slaughter in Connecticut cloud his logic.

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  • Finding the 'real deal'

    "You don’t seem like a preacher, at least not a typical one. You’re ‘the real deal.’”

    The comment, coming from an inmate in jail, I took as a compliment, although I frequently ask myself if I’m really real.

    His comment was followed by a question: “How did you ever get to be a preacher in the first place? (“Do you think I should have been something else?” I am tempted to ask.)

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