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Column by David Cox Two Sundays ago, 33 pastors around the country by prearrangement preached sermons to their congregations that endorsed or opposed candidates for President of the United States. What’s more, they will send their sermon texts to the Internal Revenue Service to defy the ban on tax-exempt nonprofits engaging in partisan politics. Clearly,…
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Column by W.R. Marshall “A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.” – Thomas Pynchon Why Pynchon? Because he appeals to the intellect. And because it’s literal. There is a screaming across the sky, a constant shrill chorus filling the air. And it has…
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Column by Shepherd Bliss “Come to the table,” Slow Food Nation invited. And come to San Francisco over Labor Day weekend they did — around 50,000 people attending perhaps the largest food celebration in American history. Tables and straw bales appeared in the heart of the city’s Civic Center around a victory garden on about…
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Op-ed by Rick Gray Timing is everything. Four years ago, on Christmas night, I flew to Manchester, N.H., to spend a week of my precious winter holiday knocking on doors for Howard Dean. This year, I’ve slapped a McCain sticker on my bumper and agreed to write this piece. Let me explain. I’m a liberal,…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] “Sarah Palin represents everything they hate,” conservative radio host Laura Ingraham told an audience at the Republican National Convention this week. Which piqued my interest, because I’m guessing that I’m one of those they that she was referring to – a Democrat, a member of the news media. Come…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I was looking over a recent poll done by Sacred Heart University and had to do a double-take at the number of not-sures that was indicated in the poll. Sacred Heart had 22.3 percent of those surveyed saying that they would prefer to vote for “none of the above” in…
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Fear and Loathing in Staunton column by Chris Graham [email protected] Wanna know what has me riled up about Friday’s convictions in the Staunton Scopes Trial? No, it ain’t about protecting people’s rights to access porn. Stauntonians can still get their fix on Comcast or satellite TV or the Internet … Uh, wait. Check that part…
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Slow Food Nation leader Alice Waters – founder of Berkeley’s famous Chez Panisse Restaurant and author of eight food books – spoke at the small town (8,000 people) Sebastopol Farmers’ Market in Northern California Aug. 3. She was interviewed about the Aug. 29-31 SFN celebration to happen around San Francisco by…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The presumed number-one quarterback, Peter Lalich, is busted for underage possession of alcohol. Then one of the incoming starters on the offensive line, Will Barker, is among two UVa. players picked up for stealing beer from a nightclub on The Corner. And that was just last week’s news….
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen It started out as a really fun idea for a movie. With all the political hanky-panky in the past few years, the voting machine screw-ups and such, why not have an election so close that it comes down to one vote? Like, one anonymous, schlubby little guy…
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