by Celia Rivenbark | Jun 3, 2019 | Weekly Column
Lately, I’ve been pondering what it means to be a North Carolinian. As in Tar Heel born (in a doctor’s office, no less), Tar Heel bred (never lived more than 37 miles from home, just like Jesus) and, yes, like the song says, when I die, I’ll be...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 27, 2019 | Weekly Column
Nearly 75 percent of Americans– men and women—say they don’t want Roe v. Wade overturned. So how did we get here? How did we get to this place where Chinese factories are working overtime to make those white-bonneted, blood-red...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 20, 2019 | Weekly Column
Although I almost hate to write this out loud, it’s time to tell “the others” the truth: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just messin’ with you. I hate to tell you because it’s hilarious when y’all get all high horsey about how...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 13, 2019 | Weekly Column
I was reading the comments attached to a news story about public school teachers staging a rally in my home state of North Carolina (“Come for the No. 34 ranking in nationwide teacher pay; stay for the barbecue”) when it hit me: People really are...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 6, 2019 | Weekly Column
I’m not sure if “Jeopardy!” brainbot James Holzhauer is politically inclined but I’m recruiting him to run against Trump in 2020 because I don’t think it’s possible for James to lose to anyone. We can work on his...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 30, 2019 | Weekly Column
MEDIA ROUNDTABLE SOMEWHERE IN D.C.— Moderator: Ok, everybody, take your seats. I just wanted to huddle up and talk about all this flak we’re taking for not treating women presidential candidates the same as men… Lou Dobbs: Harpies, magpies,...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 22, 2019 | Weekly Column
President Trump, who often exaggerates when it comes to numbers and statistics of the “biggest” or the “most we’ve ever seen” should be believed 100 percent if he brags of having the largest number of open appointments and unfilled...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 15, 2019 | Weekly Column
The only kind of golf I know how to play is wacky golf. Which is, as it turns out, true of Donald Trump as well. He throws opponents’ balls into the water while they’re not looking. He claims to have won tournaments he never played in. He says he...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 12, 2019 | Weekly Column
I can’t quite get over how the long-awaited first all-female space walk was casually nixed recently because of…a wardrobe snafu. For quite some time, we’d heard NASA describing plans for the historic walk timed to coincide with National...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 1, 2019 | Weekly Column
You know what I think about when I picture a typical country club? I envision a sunny second-floor ballroom, members and guests savoring a sumptuous Sunday buffet while watching genial golfers gathered below on lime-green tees. You know what I don’t...
