by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 15, 2021 | Weekly Column
Soooo, quick question to all the parents who are screeching at their local school board meetings because their lil darlins have been exposed to Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” Yeah. That Toni Morrison. The one with the Pulitzer Prize, the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 8, 2021 | Weekly Column
I’m going to sit down and send a week’s pay to the folks at Snopes so they can continue the Lord’s work of using research and facts the rest of us are too lazy to mess with to combat the spread of misinformation on the internet. As...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 2, 2021 | Weekly Column
Can writers really be replaced by artificial intelligence programs? I haven’t been this worried since I heard about the infinite monkey theorem. That’s where a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 25, 2021 | Weekly Column
I have a modest proposal for how to deal with the tax cheats named in the “Pandora Papers” that jaw-dropping global investigation into the bank accounts of some of the world’s richest people. Journalists in 117 countries spent years examining...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 11, 2021 | Weekly Column
While I’m plenty sympathetic to young people who say Instagram makes them feel bad about themselves through body-shaming and general taunting and bullying, I have yet to see even a paragraph about what it does to us older folk. Where’s your...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 4, 2021 | Weekly Column
I wouldn’t have thought it possible a few months ago but, yes, 2021 is saying “hold my beer” to 2020 when it comes to curious behavior. Why do I say that? Because 2021 will forever be—among other things–the year a distressing number of...
