We've a Good Thing Going In Montana BY DAVID S. LEWIS 12/25/15 The thing about the 24-hour news cycle is that, well, it lasts 24 hours. Short of 9-11 and Watergate, important news quickly gets displaced by the next event, and the cumulative effect resembles a collective Attention Deficit Disorder. A monthly, though, sets a whole other pace. Within these pages more … [Read more...]
Decoding the Origins of Political Correctness
What’s a Shaputz? BY DAVID S. LEWIS To answer the question, What’s a shaputz?, requires some background. —Back in school, we mischievous adolescents played the following practical joke on various people, and it never failed to achieve the desired result. When a classmate happened to make what would now be called an insensitive remark about, say, someone’s ethnicity, or … [Read more...]