There was no Labor Day holiday for Chicago criminals, who murdered nine people and wounded another 51; most (if not all) were black or brown people with names and stories we will never know. Meanwhile, crime is down sharply in Washington, D.C.
The plays of Athens often ended with frozen conflict rather than resolution. The gods would step in, or some new institution would be invented to keep the cycle of vengeance from consuming the city. That is the best that can be hoped for in Ukraine today.
There is this wonderful person I met at Children's Hospital named John. He is winning his battle against cancer because of his deep faith, limitless hope and loving support of caring family and friends.
If you have ever watched the old movie “Conagher,” a Western based on a rough 'n' tough cowboy with a gigantic sense of right and wrong, then you might well remember the story line’s leading lady. An attractive young widow with two children, left in a lonely shack out in the boonies after the supposed death of her husband.
The Highland County Fair, 1963: The balance of the summer of 1963 went by in a bucolic manner. The weather was unremarkable for summertime. My 4-H pig, Julius Caesar, grew nicely, innocently unaware of this fate. I treated him like a pet and mentally ignored the coming end.
I remember how I always looked forward to the times my Nana would come to our city house and visit with us. She was magical. She sang the most wonderful songs.
Today as throughout history, the lure of Russia for U.S. businesses remains a mirage. Moscow desperately desires access to Western capital and technology but in the end offers little in return.
Three U.S. warships, a nuclear submarine, and a Marine detachment are sliding into the Caribbean. By themselves they cannot bring down Nicolas Maduro, but they can blockade ports, choke resupply, and cripple the refineries and substations that keep his state on life support.
Those who grew up in the 20th and 21st centuries have spent their lives in an environment saturated with cautionary tales about technology and human error, projections of ancient flood myths onto modern scenarios in which the hubris of our species brings our downfall.
Free time and greed, in its basest form, results in murder. Cain used a rock to kill his brother, Abel. It was cheap, just pick it up off the ground. Today, our weapons may not be so cheap, but they are designed to be impulsive.
Although it is remembered by all as a horrific natural disaster connected to the deaths of close to 1,400 people and the displacement of hundreds of thousands more, this was a man-made tragedy, at least in New Orleans. Longstanding warnings about problems in the levees built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were ignored, leading to the epic floods.
