By: Jack Hindon Set in New Orleans back in the '60's, A Confederacy of Dunces is, next to Mark Twain, possibly one of the greatest pieces of Southern literature of all time. When I was first introduced to the book all I was told was that the author, John…
By: Ingril Stobenich There are certain movies that don't need special effects and CGI to move you, to remind you that there is a certain beauty in simplicity. The Big Kahuna does just that. Made back in '99, the film starred Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, and Peter Facinelli. There…
By: Meconstrue We are not at the top of the food chain. Grizzlies, some would say, are at the top of the food chain for land animals. In the sea it's octopuses, the elusive giant ones that eat sharks. We've conquered them though. We can best a bear or…
By: Gina Volpe Not since discovering that a mentally handicapped person from my class got married before me have I been as shocked as I was to learn there are still people in their twenties who are virgins. I thought virgins over the age of 16 had gone extinct,…
By: Michael Tuosto In their Wall Street Journal article entitled Charges Stir Church’s Abuse Scandal, Dinah Brin and Peter Loftus report that 21 priests accused of sexually abusing minors were placed on leave by the Philadelphia Catholic Archdiocese. The article also reminds readers that the issue of clergy taking…
By: Michael Tuosto Often the American 2nd Amendment gun debate revolves around tragedies like the one in Tuscon, Ariz. This is understandable since it was a tragedy “close to home." In fact, at our home, America. For me, the renewed efforts to further restrict gun rights, due to this…
By Jim Hoover Five faces tell the story – or stories, as it might be -- of Fox News Network. It tells a narrative of angst and spectacle that bends minds, heaves hearts, presses attitudes, and makes pupils wide. Bill O’Reilly, a Fox news icon, is depicted with a…
By: Max P. Domer Since its spiritual founding in 1916, Planned Parenthood has had its share of controversy. When Margret Sanger, an early proponent of birth control and the original president of what would become the organization we have today, founded the first American birth control clinic in Brooklyn,…
By: Amy Shakewell When the film maker Michael Moore first moved to Traverse City, Mich. there was a lot of ruckus made about his intention to improve T.C. Some were optimistic about his arrival, others not so much. We had letters to the editor of the local Record Eagle…
Ray’s Boom Boom Room By Ray Rife – raysbbr@gmail.com Welcome to Ray’s “Boom-Boom” Room. I live in the beautiful city of Atlanta and the weather was fantastic for most of the week. Once the weekend came, it was almost sinful. Spring is in the air. The dreaded…