A Rush to judgment

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham It’s time that somebody says this – so here goes. Leave Rush Limbaugh alone. Got it? I know what the liberal media is trying to get you to believe, but … Good, we’re on the same page. The guy’s a blowhard, sure – I’ll concede that. He once…

Fat chance

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Isn’t it weird how much we worry about the fact that we’re fat? And don’t think that we don’t all spend way too much time on this. “Hannah says I’m fat,” my 7-year-old niece Rachel said, referring to criticisms from her sister, who is exactly one pound lighter,…

A seller’s market

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham If I could make it through life without anybody trying to sell me anything, I’d be just fine. This is why I don’t like shopping, for starters. “Sir, can I help you?” I am almost always asked when I do decide to go shopping. Or can’t avoid it…

Do you believe in ghosts?

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham Brenda Gordon didn’t want to admit to herself that she believed in ghosts. Being confronted with evidence of their existence will tend to make a believer out of anybody, of course. “I moved into the house that my dad lived in, and he’s been dead since 1997, and the…

PB&Gone

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I have this running game that I’m playing with the guy in charge of ordering at the grocery store. The game: I buy two boxes of Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp each week, and he keeps the Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp coming.

Declaration of (public broadcast) independence

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham It’s spring, which means it’s probably time for Congress to threaten to cut funding for public broadcasting. A move by a congressional subcommittee to slash funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that was reversed last week by the House Appropriations Committee had people again discussing the merits of taxpayer funding…

Summer in the Shenandoah Valley

Chris Graham

Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected]   The Valley has been changing, and the daylight stretching out, as the solstice draws near. There’s a fullness along the country roads where trees recently bare take on a middle-aged kind of thickness, swaying contentedly with the last of spring breezes. The cacophony of cicadas, tree…