Nuclear war was invented 80 years ago today. It was tried again three days later. Perhaps unfortunately, it worked.
NHK, Japan’s equivalent to our PBS, makes much of the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As you would expect, it is unreservedly condemned.
When we learned Sunday of the death of Tom Lehrer, my reaction was that I suspect was that of many: He was still alive?
For being as young as it is, all-news television has been through a lot of changes, most of them for the worse.
It’s not to everyone’s taste, but a substantial group of humans who are free to roam the earth like to collect stuff. Some focus their collections — stamps, coins — but others of us are not prejudiced. We collect anything that is interesting.
There’s been a lot of news lately, as you might have noticed. You might, too, have noticed that getting actual, accurate news coverage seems all but impossible.
We need to define terms. Our culture is always ready to debate and toss accusations, but we fail to stop and see if we even mean the same things by the words we hurl. No wonder we never settled anything.
There is so much we could discuss, practically all of it obvious and troubling.
I’m exhausted. Worn down from dealing with the medical system that is supposed to heal us. It shouldn’t be this way and we have the technological means to fix at least some of it right now.
When I walked into the newsroom of The Athens News, nearly 19 years ago, the first thing I noticed was the clocks.
Get ready for the onslaught of stories and advertisements from people you probably shouldn’t trust, subject: prostate cancer.