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Friends visited while in Colorado

Bill was one of the old friends I looked up while Ginnie and I were in Loveland, Colorado. He had pretty much disappeared from the scene, like a rainbow come and gone. The phone number I had for him was no longer in service, but I was able to get his address from another friend. Bill and I had ...

The Gender Gap grows wider and wider

The gender gap, we’re informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since the election of 1980, when men were more willing than women to vote for Ronald Reagan and oust Jimmy Carter. That spurred political journalists to emit ...

Drunk and Defiant: ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’ tops the charts

Every year, there’s a song of summer. It’s often something to argue over when conversation lags at the barbecue. In 2013, feminists attacked Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” for allegedly glamorizing sexual violence. “Blurred Lines” was a huge hit. According to Rolling Stone, ...

Electric bicycles join horse-drawn buggies in Iowa Amish communities

Buggyland will never be Buggyland again. The New Order Amish bishop has lifted the ban on bicycles and a wave of motion has washed over us all. For a hundred years, both the Old Order Amish, the more conservative sect, and the New Order Amish, the more liberal, shunned cars and trucks, ...

Give the House Freedom Caucus the credit it deserves

Hardline Republicans — specifically those members of the House Freedom Caucus — are being derided in the press, as if they’ve been playing some kind of a game. That is, threatening to not vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill, when, supposedly, everyone knew, in the end, they would cave ...