Reid Collins
Christmas is for children, a cynic once said. Not so, it can argued, when the message should be dearer to those adults to whom the promise is more near in time. Ah, well, let’s see what Christmas, 2006, could bring….
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. But he is not the fellow posing as Santa when he messages you on the Internet, so do not under any circumstance answer any of that mail. The real Santa does not have…
Now and again we are given an illustration. No caption. Just an illustration. So picture this. Hundreds of Americans are sleeping in tents, many in abominable weather, to keep a place in line in the hope of purchasing for several…
With due respect for all veterans on Veterans’ Day, for many it is still “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” that freed a nation from the toils of a conflict that forever changed a nation….
Wonder why the nation was kept waiting into Wednesday to learn which party may be dominant in the United States Senate? The state of gold and silver: Montana. And lord only knows if the result is knowable even now! Yellowstone…
Newsman Christopher Glenn was a friend and colleague of mine, so it was with interest and sadness that I read his obituary provided by Associated Press in the Washington Post. “Christopher Glenn, 68, a longtime CBS news correspondent who anchored…
“Most Republicans are sticking together.”— Speaker Hastert’s spokesman on the Foley affair Good grief! Isn’t there another way to phrase this?
President Bush should thank his lucky stars for the Woodward book! The media love for the author assures its continual coverage, up to and including the refutations to come. Meanwhile, eclipsed by the Woodward work is a book more devastating…
While we await the latest secret intelligence estimate to be revealed, here is another mystery the media may wrestle to the ground: whose responsibility is it to give wildfires their names? We are told that the media favorite, the “Day”…
Every tragedy contains a little lesson. The Montreal killings informs us that the perpetrator, Kimveer Gill, was fond of playing the Internet game, “Super Columbine Massacre.” The lesson: there is such a game. Derivative lesson: it can’t be long now.
