
David Reynolds: A Child’s Christmas
You remember the way it was on Christmas morning. You thought today would never come. December was twelve months long.

You remember the way it was on Christmas morning. You thought today would never come. December was twelve months long.

Transportation for the Elderly and Disabled (TED) Volunteer Coordinator Jacquie Horton will be mailing a holiday card to 37 TED volunteer drivers who have driven this year.

An ingenious new technique is making it quicker and easier for scientists to identify the function of uncharacterized proteins in cells. The method, developed by researchers primarily from the Wladek Minor laboratory at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, already is being used to solve some of the most stubborn mysteries of cellular function.

Moments in political history are hard to spot. However, I think I may have spotted one ten months ago. On Friday, February 10, 2012, at around 2:15 pm, there was a changing of the Old Guard of the Grand Old Party of the Old Dominion. That’s a lot of old. But that’s Virginia. Its past is never past.

An illegal hold really isn’t legal for five seconds because the ref starts counting to signal to the offending wrestler to break the hold. You knew that. You also knew that a gang of wrestlers kidnapping a rival and taking him away on the back of a truck really aren’t engaging in anything even remotely criminal, because if they were, they’d be in jail sometime after we’d get back from the next commercial break. So why do WWE and TNA – for that matter, Top Rope – keep trying to sell us on stuff both in the ring and out when we all know that not a sliver of it is on the up-and-up?

Think the blogosphere is overrated as a power source? Consider the latest from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC Council of Presidents issued a statement on Thursday to “express our commitment to preserve and prospect the future of our outstanding league.”

What is it about Republicans that they can’t stand a good political fight? Are they all of the established country club wing of the party who prefer the non-contact sports of golf and tennis to the rough and tumble of a good partisan fight? Are they all Charlie Brown’s up against a Lucy who keeps saying that she will not pull away the football?

The Holiday Fashion Showcase returns to downtown Waynesboro on Saturday for a little bit of Christmas cheer to get you ready for the holiday season.

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling announced Wednesday that he has suspended his campaign for the Republican Party gubernatorial nomination, calling the move “the right decision” and clearing the way for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to get the party nod.

Last week provided an interesting glimpse into the political right’s pathological dishonesty (and Rachel Maddow did an excellent job of calling attention to it). It turns out that the liars are prone to lying to themselves.
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