Tragedy explored in ‘Broken Heart Land’
His family doesn't know if Zack actually heard any of it firsthand. Maybe he was at that City Council meeting (some people swear he was) or maybe not. Either way,...
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Beware the unimaginable
The signs were all there. This is what jumps out at you in perusing postmortems of the two greatest surprise attacks in American history. In the days and weeks leading...
Casey Kasem, hip to be square
He remembered everything about that night. He remembered the song they slow danced to -- "You Are My Lady." He remembered the play of the lights in her hair as...
Lest we forget, aging has its downside
I am standing at the front door, locked out of my own house. If this were a movie, it'd be raining. Thankfully, this isn't so it isn't. But the reality...
Forced faith is not faith
In a prison in Khartoum, a dusty city on the banks of the ancient Nile in the African nation of Sudan, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim waits. She is not alone in...
NRA backtracks from rare instance of making sense
A few days ago, the NRA inadvertently said something reasonable. This, in response to a series of protests in Texas. It seems advocates of the right to carry firearms openly...
Running out of words to describe mass shootings
I am running out of words. Some crackpot who couldn't get a date stabs and shoots his way across the Southern California college town of Isla Vista, killing six people...
It’s time to show our veterans some love
"I want a love I can see. That's the only kind that means a thing to me. Don't want a love you have to tell me about. That kind of...
Double standard when women attack men
What if he had smacked her one? She's going after him with fists and feet. What if he had defended himself in kind? Or what if he had been the...
When women attack men — a double standard
What if he had smacked her one? She's going after him with fists and feet. What if he had defended himself in kind? Or what if he had been the...