"One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is the dangers of contraception in this country. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things…
As I write this, we have 353 days left before the Mayan Apocalypto upsets the Earth's apple cart on December 21, 2012. That's when the 5,000-year-old Mayan calendar ends, and if you pay any attention to popular culture, you have no doubt read or heard that it will mark the "end of the world," or at the least a "cosmic change in consciousness" ...
E.L. Doctorow wrote, "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." Doctorow's metaphor works pretty well as a blueprint for living: Stay focused on the journey — the road we can see ahead ...
I'm writing this column later than usual on Tuesday morning, because I had more important things to do earlier — namely, filling out my March Madness brackets for the Flyer's office pool ...
Which leads me to put on my Dr. Phil face and say what has to be said: It's time for Memphis and Shelby County to start seeing other people. We've tried for years to patch things up, to come to some sort of mutual understanding, but we need to admit that we have irreconcilable differences. We don't even know each other any more ...