The late, great stand up artist George Carlin got it exactly right some years ago when he held forth on society's tendency to restructure verbal phraseology to make it easier on the ear, to render it less offensive, more comfortable. He famously offered several examples of this, including what ...
A recent letter to the editor asked if we (Americans? Yoopers?) are "gasoholics?" The writer explained how he recently purchased a Chevy EV pickup and is happily avoiding the volatile fuel prices of a declining petroleum resource, reducing his climate change impact and also the apparently ...
Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It's rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It's not a socialist country, but fans of a robust welfare state and high taxes see much to admire in the very progressive Norwegian model. It also benefits from having the ...
With the state of Michigan, according to its own records, raking in a veritable mountain of cash each year from legalized online gambling, it is not at all clear why Lansing isn't doing more to provide resources to deal with the inevitable result of all that betting: Compulsive ...
To the Journal editor: Dry pavements are now the lanes for those who walk and bike. The non-polluting means of getting around are less costly than driving. And if your lane took you out so far that you would like a ride back, try mass transit. Busses have bike racks. Cutting emissions for ...
In light of Trump's increasingly cruel and bonkers behavior — toward Iran, toward the pope, his posts, his bottomless vengeance, his continuing ICE raids, his continuing use of the Justice Department to target his enemies, his shameless corruption — many of you want to know: "What can I do ...