Opinion
Faceless criminals
I'm relatively new to this whole reporting aspect of the "newspapering" world, so was a bit surprised to find that there are just some things you cannot print.
If you commit a cri...
Guys, you just CAN\'T win!
Finally, a gentlemen is born.
Well, I know there are real gentlemen out there, but sometimes we take them for granted.
It seems guys just can't win in our society.
If th...
The new F-word in collegiate basketball
Iowa State University women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly, according to an article in last week’s ESPN The Magazine, is a homophobe because he used the F-word.
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Free Speech does not mean anonymous speech
"What’s wrong, Mr. Close? Don’t you believe in free speech?"
It took a while for me to understand what the comment...
A closer look at the new Vinton residents who will \'get things done\'
Put yourself in the shoes – actually in the black government-issue work boots – of any of the 250 or so people who saw Vinton, Iowa, for the first time ye... Get everything you can out of Vinton Today!
Sometimes we get so used to all the features of the Vinton Today website, that we forget to mention once in a while other things we have going on as part of the site.
If you haven't already...
Speechless on Feb. 14
Somewhere a soldier
Sits drinking his Folger's
And wondering what words would rhyme
With "desert" and "sandstorm"
And "al-Muqdadiya&quo...
The enigma of breviloquence, continued
Comments from my flock of column readers – assuming, of course, that two constitutes a “flock” – indicate that I did not write nearly enough w...
The enigma of breviloquence
Several people in the past three years have offered advice about what I should do with this space.
Those who have not suggested using th...
Living with ADD: Attention Deficit Delight
I was sitting in a waiting room a while ago when I found proof that, yes, indeed, there is such a thing as a stupid question.
In fact, I read...