I’m beginning to think I’ve been wrong all these years in thinking that people who aren’t into sports have it all wrong. My reasoning has been that following a sports team closely, using the collective we in reference to its exploits and failings, being light as a feather happy when it wins, falling into a deep, existential funk when it falls short, is healthy because doing so makes one become part of something bigger than one’s own self. More and more these days, I’m starting to think that it’s all just a big waste of time and energy better spent, well, doing anything else, really.
The ACLU of Virginia expressed disappointment with a federal court decision that dismissed a complaint filed by a pregnant inmate against the Rappahannock Regional Jail Authority. The plaintiff in the case, Tiarra Fain, claimed that jail officials violated her Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment by keeping her restrained while she was in labor and after childbirth.
During two enrollment sessions in June, older adults with limited income will be eligible to receive $40 in coupons to purchase fresh, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and cut herbs at the Staunton, Verona, and Waynesboro Farmer’s Markets this summer, thanks to the Farm Market Fresh for Seniors Program jointly sponsored by Valley Program for Aging Services (VPAS), Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, and Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Claudia Emerson, distinguished professor, poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, will join the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of English in the College of Humanities and Sciences beginning Aug. 15.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics’ latest documentary, Out of Order, has won an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Best Topical Documentary.
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and State Sen. Mark Herring, candidate for attorney general of Virginia visited the McLean Metrorail Station, a new stop on the Silver Line on Tuesday.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Armed Services Committee, lauded on Friday important provisions he advocated for Virginia’s defense community that were included in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.
Edward Snowden, like the tail gunner in Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, didn’t get to unpack his bags. The modern-day Snowden isn’t dead, not yet, unlike Heller’s Snowden of yesteryear, who died on his first mission. The Snowden of yesteryear was a victim of circumstance; Edward Snowden is the master of his, for now, anyway.
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