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....
by Celia Rivenbark | Jul 29, 2019 | Weekly Column
There’s so much to love about my native Eastern North Carolina. Driving through the sweet “dog tongue” flower-scented countryside to Greenville recently reminded me why the area’s most famous cheerleader– internationally respected...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jul 22, 2019 | Weekly Column
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C.—The president of the United States today told First Lady Melania Trump she should leave the United States and go back to where she came from and that she should take her parents with her. “Turns out, Melania is from a...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jul 15, 2019 | Weekly Column
I don’t blame black folk for thinking we’ve lost our minds. The recent noisy—and racist– outrage over the casting of a young African American actress as Ariel in the new live-action version of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jul 8, 2019 | Weekly Column
Think of the Trump/Kim bromance as the updated version of “An Affair to Remember” and “Sleepless in Seattle.” In “Trump and Kim: An Affair That Makes Us Lose Sleep,” Trump puts it all on the line. (The updated part is he...
