Last year a poor priest in Italy accidentally turned on the software special-effects filters before streaming Mass to the faithful. It gained …
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a new column series, “Athens Ability,” created by the Athens City Commission on Disabilities.
Rush Limbaugh was a friend of mine.
Oliver Cromwell died in September 1658; two and a half years later he was executed.
In the course of writing a column one encounters items of interest that may not be enough to sustain a whole weekly screed but that are worth …
You may have heard the story that broke late last week about the fellow whose exotic sex play involved a Chinese-made gadget called a “chastit…
In a far corner of my office-library-study is a digital clock with large red numerals. Most of the time it is blinking, because it’s inconveni…
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In a far corner of my office-library-study is a digital clock with large red numerals. Most of the time it is blinking, because it’s inconveni…
It’s inauguration day. Some of the events are calm and predictable; let us pray that all of them are, but as I write this I do not know and wo…
In 1937, as he told it, a newly qualified veterinarian named Alf Wight took a job – hard to find at the time – with a practice in Yorkshire in…
Last week the actor Anthony Hopkins put online a video recording of himself expressing happiness over 45 years of sobriety. In 1975, he said, …
Cooking programs on television have evolved over the years, not always for the better.
By Dennis E. Powell
By Dennis E. Powell
A casual observer might have found it surprising the way word spread, ten, now almost 11, years ago, when Pete Smith died. He’d been terribly …
The chimney sweep made his occasional visit last week, so my cunning plan for winter warmth and a good night’s sleep proceeds apace.
What I thought I’d seen didn’t register until I was 10 or 15 feet down the aisle, so I had to turn around and go back to confirm that yes, the…
It seems likely that before very long there will be a vaccine to prevent infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen that produces the dis…
By Dennis E. Powell
By Dennis E. Powell
You probably didn’t awaken this morning wondering what George Washington was up to 250 years ago today. But that information is or ought to be…
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Someday — it’s on my list of projects — I’ll write a comprehensive history of geegaws and gadgets sold on television, directly to viewers who …
One morning as we spoke after catching a horse that had gotten loose, a neighbor in Connecticut told me he was going to have to get his house …
Sometimes when a person dies it can be good to let thoughts calm a bit before trying to write anything about the departed.
It is said – there’s debate whether it’s true – that upon his retirement President Eisenhower was asked if he had made any mistakes while in o…
By Dennis E. Powell
There sits on my desk a little tchotchke, my share of the booty from my friend John Halley’s office Christmas distribution a few years ago. It…
There are now adults who have no real memory of the events of September 11, 2001.This shouldn’t be a surprise — that day is to 2020 as Pearl H…