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Dec 19, 20183 min read

Please, Mr. President, we're counting on you to stop these assaults.

This is a 100 percent true Christmas story: Several Decembers ago, I staggered out of Macy's at the Streets of Southpoint Mall in Durham,...

Dec 4, 20183 min read

If you can't trust a man in a suit - can you automatically trust one in a ratty T shirt and hood

If you're in doubt, here are four ways to know you're old: ◆You wear your belt four inches below your chin. ◆ You sing the praises of...

Nov 13, 20183 min read

WAKE UP, AMERICA. Russian takeover plot underfoot.

Russians trying to derail our political system from inside the White House? Who knows? Russian's trying to derail every other aspect of...

Nov 7, 20183 min read

Coach K won even before the season started. Darn.

It'll surprise no one to hear that, growing up in Chicago, Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski was an adolescent weisenheimer. He was,...

Nov 5, 20183 min read

How do you fix a broken heart and country?

Ahhh, now I remember. For a second there, I was about to forget why facing the world eyeball-to-eyeball first thing in the morning isn't...

Nov 5, 20182 min read

Here's Why I'll Never Vote... (early).

Is this is the most important election of our lifetime, one that will signal to the world the kind of nation we aspire to be? That's what...

Oct 25, 20183 min read

I feel sorry for you, Governor

Some of the people at the Durham Rescue Mission's recent annual fall banquet had tales of woe, tales of decades-long battles with booze...

Oct 22, 20182 min read

Rae Carruth, despite his tale of woe, is NOT the victim here

Hey y'all. Listen up. Don't go being mean to Rae Carruth. As he left prison recently after completing an 18-year bid for conspiring to...

Oct 11, 20183 min read

"Say, homes. You Gon' Eat That Jell-O Puddin'?"

Okay, now that Bill Cosby is ensconced in a prison cell, wondering why he didn't liquidate his assets and flee to a country with no...