by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 14, 2019 | Weekly Column
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham reports he’s feeling “fit as a fiddle” after spine surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina last week. “See, I’d misplaced the ol’ backbone,” Graham told reporters...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 7, 2019 | Weekly Column
Aunt Verlie was panic-stricken by the time I arrived at the If You’re Not Livin’, You’re Dyin’ Eldercare Villas. Someone had been calling all day long—actually, several someone’s–leaving messages saying her assets (Seriously?...
by Celia Rivenbark | Sep 30, 2019 | Weekly Column
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today President Donald J. Trump made good on a longtime threat and gunned down someone on Fifth Avenue in New York City. “I hadda do it,” Trump explained with a disarming grin and shrug of his powerful shoulders. During a hastily...
by Celia Rivenbark | Sep 23, 2019 | Weekly Column
Most of y’all have probably read about the Pennsylvania couple that spent $120,000 accidentally dropped into their checking account at BB&T. It didn’t take Robert and Tiffany Williams long to spend most of the “found” money on a...
by Celia Rivenbark | Sep 9, 2019 | Weekly Column
If you need further proof we’re losing our collective minds these days, consider what happened at a Popeye’s restaurant in Houston, Texas, recently. Apparently, there are two things Americans can’t stand being denied: guns and trendy fried...
by Celia Rivenbark | Sep 2, 2019 | Weekly Column
Lost in all the kerfuffle of not buying Greenland, proclaiming to be The Chosen One and callously reneging on a pledge to support background checks for gun sales last week was a delicious morsel from the man himself admitting ON VIDEO he likes to give himself...
by Celia Rivenbark | Aug 26, 2019 | Weekly Column
At first, I thought it was an aberration, just a good friend trying to make life easier for me after a festive birthday dinner. Her tone was firm, leaving no room for even a mouse-squeak of a protest. “Don’t write me a thank you note; it’s...
by Celia Rivenbark | Aug 19, 2019 | Weekly Column
OK, somebody get the paddles and plant ’em on Uncle Joe’s bird-boned chest and yell “CLEAR!!!” Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden needs a serious reboot after last week. Although eloquent in a lofty anti-bigotry speech early on, the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Aug 12, 2019 | Weekly Column
In these terrible times we must cling to things that restore joy to our world-weary souls…visiting a waterfall, picking daisies in a meadow with a giggling grandchild, sharing a banana split with a sweetheart, watching Mitch McConnell’s jaw clench til his...
by Celia Rivenbark | Aug 5, 2019 | Weekly Column
My friend shook her head slowly when I asked if she had noticed –then again, how could she not? – Chris Matthews seems to have a stubborn chest cold because he has been coughing a lot more on TV than usual, which, as I reminded her, was already plenty annoying....
