by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 28, 2017 | Weekly Column
Poor judicial candidate Matthew Petersen, looking every inch the earnest blonde BYU grad that he is, got grilled like a slab of mahi last week, oddly by friendly fire. Freshman Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, channeling the disbelief and...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 18, 2017 | Weekly Column
Every town in America liked Christmas a lot But the man in the White House most certainly did not! The Trump hated the holidays! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why—we don’t know the reason It could be, perhaps, that his hands were...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 11, 2017 | Weekly Column
While “Wall Street Journal” reporter Daniel Pearl, a highly respected war correspondent, was risking his life to cover the chilling rise of Al-Queda in Pakistan in February 2002, Donald Trump was busy with other matters. Trump was preparing to film a...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 4, 2017 | Weekly Column
It’s raining men. As I write this, veteran journalist Charlie Rose stands accused of walking around nekkid in front of younger female staffers, Sen. Al Franken may have to resign his seat on account of gropery and 88-year-old Michigan Congressman John...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 27, 2017 | Weekly Column
Every time I see Paul Ryan gleefully hold up that tiny postcard he claims we can use to file our taxes one day, I’m reminded of an old Jerry Seinfeld riff on those stores that promise your new prescription eyeglasses will be ready in under an hour....
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 20, 2017 | Weekly Column
For four years now, I’ve dreaded seeing the traffic light turn red at one particular intersection in my town. For as long as 70 seconds I’m subjected to the heavenly aroma hovering in the air. There is no escape from the poultry perfume that is...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 13, 2017 | Weekly Column
One of Donald Trump’s harshest critics has been South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Unlike Republican senators Corker and Flake who have nothing to lose from criticizing Trump because they aren’t running for re-election, Graham has skin in this...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 6, 2017 | Weekly Column
OK, let’s go over this again, shall we, Mr. President? You clearly didn’t take my well-intentioned advice in the past so I’ll try once more. And while it is true the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 30, 2017 | Weekly Column
I remember the first time it happened to me. The man who signed my paycheck sent me to look for some supplies in his office. But when I opened the bottom drawer, it was a stack of pornographic magazines greeting me instead of the payroll ledger he’d...
by Celia Rivenbark | Oct 23, 2017 | Weekly Column
When did “Conservatives,” the perpetually pinch-faced, fiscally constipated buzz killers morph into Beyonce buying a multimillion-dollar “dragon egg,” because she saw one on “Game of Thrones” and just had to have it?...
