With all the recent attention turned to attachment parenting – highlighted by the Time Magazine Mother’s Day cover of a toddler using a step-stool to breastfeed – perhaps the topic can be spun in a different direction.
You would think as an opinion columnist that I would have strong takes on most issues. In reality, I’m ambivalent in most debates. What usually gets me cranked up is the line of argumentation most people take to make their points. Instead of being adamantly for an issue, I’m simply against people blowing hot air.
Technology is a double-edged sword. We love the boundaries it can break down, but sometimes we hate having those barriers smashed.
I’ve spent so much of the past few months telling you things I don’t like, that perhaps it is time for a spring cleaning of the bad thoughts and bring to the forefront things I do like.
There are a few absolutes in life: death, taxes and making the opinions of those who disagree with you as extreme as possible.
I don’t know quite what to make of the Trayvon Martin case, and as an average white guy, anything negative say will inevitably be called race-mongering by people who seem to have made a career of following polarizing cases.
I’m not fleet of foot. I’m not ashamed to say it.
We take a lot of care not to offend people.
I ruffled a few feathers last week on society’s newest self-policing area, an Internet message board. I had the audacity to make fun of Gary Banning.
In a span of a month, I’ll have packed my bags and headed to Irmo for three weekend trips. I can guarantee you that had you told me this tidbit 10 years ago, I’d have thought winning the lottery had the same probability.
My son’s basketball team finished the year the opposite of undefeated.
In the aftermath of a riot that broke out during a recent Egyptian soccer match and killed close to a hundred people, I heard an interesting comment:
Ever since the story of Thomas doubting Jesus had returned from the dead, we have been a cynical lot. To believe something, we often need to see proof.
On Sunday, I will be joining millions of other Americans partaking in the annual ritual of watching the Super Bowl. But watching is just one part of the event.