by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 9, 2018 | Weekly Column |
Let’s just cut to the chase and stipulate that arming classroom teachers, aides, lunchroom ladies, janitors, etc. is the dumbest idea since the Snuggie. It seriously makes that blanket with sleeves look like the discovery of penicillin, amiright?...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 5, 2018 | Weekly Column |
Donald Trump’s Dickensian suggestion that food stamps should be replaced by home-delivered boxes of canned food—think Blue Apron with less pancetta-wrapped halibut and more expired chili and dented peaches—didn’t get a lot of love when it was...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 26, 2018 | Weekly Column |
Hello. You have reached the White House switchboard. Your call is very important to us and will be answered in the order received. In order to reduce wait time, please listen carefully to the following menu as some of our options may have changed. If you...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 19, 2018 | Weekly Column |
Note to readers (and a warning): This is the first non-political/Trump column I have written in more than a year. I thought it might be fun to give readers (and myself) a week off. That said, I have rarely had more hate mail on any column than I have had on this one....
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 12, 2018 | Weekly Column |
There is something mysteriously absent from the White House these days and people are starting to talk about it. No, not Melania, although that’s a solid guess. I’m referring, of course, to the lack of a White House pet for the first time in...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 5, 2018 | Weekly Column |
When I was a kid, anytime the Rev. Billy Graham’s crusade was televised, we were expected to stop catching lightnin’ bugs in mayonnaise jars—the pastime of choice on a steamy Southern night– and head inside. We would take our places on the...
