My column in the SJ-R today takes a look at how the diamond industry is peddling their wares by proposing the offensive notion that achieving marital bliss is as easy as giving your favorite material girl an expensive ring. I decry this practice as belittling to women and suspect that the industry will be sent […]

AT&T Wireless is so pleased with how I’ve represented myself as their customer (I pay my bill on time, I never cuss across their network) that they’ve invited me back for another two-year stint. It’s quite an honor, to be sure.
AT&T has also taken what I’m assuming is the rare step of allowing me […]

I seem to recall that during the last national election cycle, gay marriage was a hot issue. This time around, except for when discussing Rudy’s precarious position with social conservatives, the topic hasn’t come up all that much. Why is that?
My position was then and remains today: why should I care if gays get married? […]

Excuse me, not to be rude, but could you please pay cash, get a debit card, or get your check-writing self to the back of the check-out line. The times, it seems, have past you by. Society will no longer abide your antiquated form of payment.
By the time you’ve filled in the blanks and had […]

Kathleen Parker had an interesting column in yesterday’s SJ-R. In it, she put forth the premise that many supporters are attracted to the idea of Barack Obama, the hope and change and all that, rather than to the man himself, who Parker finds somewhat unidentifiable up to this point.
On the Democrat side of the ledger, […]