by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 3, 2018 | Weekly Column
I don’t know why you hipster whiners are crying in your cruelty-free IPAs after hearing the latest report warning of the devastating impact of climate change expected in the next 80 years. The report, involving 13 federal agencies and more than...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 26, 2018 | Weekly Column
Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way and we can resume our national bitterness, can we talk turkey for just a sec? Literally, I mean. As in: When did it become cool to bash turkey, the venerable superstar of the traditional holiday table? Turkey-bashing...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 19, 2018 | Weekly Column
Believe it or not, I now have something in common with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz and two more prominent Republicans: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former EPA chief Scott Pruitt. No, I don’t collect the fresh...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 12, 2018 | Weekly Column
The famous Trump baby blimp that debuted earlier this year in London to protest the president’s visit is on a sort of world tour these days and it made a stop in my hometown recently. I paid a few bucks toward hurricane relief to have my picture taken with...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 5, 2018 | Weekly Column
I have to admit, coffee came outta my nose when I read the name President Donald Trump chose for the military operation to keep those worn-out, rag-tag refugee families from entering the United States at our border with Mexico. Operation Faithful Patriot...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 29, 2018 | Weekly Column
When money is literally the only currency you have, it’s hard to imagine that everybody else doesn’t look at life the same way. When your soul is bereft of any loftier goals, making more money dictates every decision you make and every action you take....
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 22, 2018 | Weekly Column
Y’all know what Stockholm Syndrome is, right? It’s when a person who has been kidnapped or has become a captive of some kind starts to develop feelings of trust, even affection, toward their captor. To put it another way, the boot’s pressing...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 15, 2018 | Weekly Column
As we speed through the pumpkin latte swirl that is October, it seems as if everyone is talking about the midterm elections. Everywhere I go, I hear this cheery mantra: “I don’t care how you vote, just make sure you vote in the midterm elections...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 8, 2018 | Weekly Column
Like many of you I suspect, Brett Kavanaugh’s recent Supreme Court confirmation debacle has caused me to question the very foundation of American jurisprudence, to ponder the role of tribal politics in a deeply divided nation and most of all to wonder...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 1, 2018 | Weekly Column
Twelve days after Hurricane Florence came ashore nine miles from my house, it’s hard to think about anything else. What have I learned? I mean, besides how to operate a chain saw without severing an artery. That’s easy… People are uncommonly kind....
