Columns
Here’s a Thought: Opening Act
By Taylor Mason
For those of you not familiar with how I roll: I’ve been a comedian for 25-plus years and been an “opening act” for a variety of performers. Some highlights. ...
Here's a Thought: Death by Cancer
By Taylor Mason
My sister-in-law passed away last Thursday, felled by cancer after a seven-year battle. She was a dignified, lovely, inspiring wife and mother who beat the odds over and over again.
Time Out: Safety ‘Net
By Patty Elder
Summer in DC means storms, and storms mean power outages. And power outages bring out my worst fear, and it's NOT the dark. ...
Here’s a Thought: Hot Enough for Ya?
By Taylor Mason
The heat was debilitating this summer, so much so that the word “hot” doesn’t do justice to the grades of temperature we've sweated these past few months.
Time Out: Make Yourself at Home
By Cara Garretson
It’s beach week, and so far so good. We bust into our rented beach house and it looks great – the bathrooms are sparkling, the décor is charming, the kitchen is retro. ...
It’s getting to be that time of year again: Spring Break. What to do? Who can afford Disney for a family of five in this economy? So here's the next best thing. ...
Accentuate the Whut?
April 13th, 2010 Posted by Teresa Roberts Logan - The Laughing Redhead in Social Issues
I just read today online that the Oklahoma Tea Party, taking Sarah Palin at her “Reload” word, is trying to form a militia. Sigh.
So, one way I will combat the feelings this dredges up, making me want to say to some certain dopey factions in our country, the paranoid, the loose cannons (literally), and the just plain loopy, “Get a hobby” (this is the nice version), I want to focus on some positive responses to some very negative behaviors which have been going on in our country.
This first one is a response, a Christian PSA in which people affirm that they are “social jus...
Miss Beverly Hills
February 26th, 2010 Posted by Teresa Roberts Logan - The Laughing Redhead in Social Issues
So, this week, Miss Beverly Hills stated that it’s “pretty black and white” that God thinks gays should be put to death. (Check it out)
Whaaaaat???!!!
Man, just one more of these, and I’ll stop looking to vapid California beauty queens to be my moral arbiters! I cannot even tell you how disappointed I was when Carrie Prejean fell off my “Future Mentors” list. ...
And, yes, there is a “Miss Beverly Hills.” Snicker. Okay, that was was mean, but . . . guffaw! There is a “Miss Beverly Hills!”
Miss BH, Lauren Ashley, was reading Leviticus, she says....
One day a church leader pointed out that I only volunteered for things that put me in some kind of limelight. Boy, did he nail it.
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