There are several three-lettered acronyms that invoke anxiety, such as FBI, IRS and IOU. An acronym that should be added to that list is DIY. “Do it yourself” sounds seductively simple. While there are numerous things that people should definitely do themselves – such as blowing their ...
President Trump's tariffs aren't popular, but he's found a way to make them even less so — a trade war with America's most inoffensive ally. When one thinks of countries that deserve to be subjected to a steady stream of insults (it's Lake America now, not Lake Ontario) and a punishing ...
In April of 2020, San Clemente, Calif., dumped 37 tons of sand into a skate park to keep teenagers out of it. Down the coast, deputies arrested a man for paddleboarding alone in the Pacific Ocean. Towns unbolted basketball rims. The mayor of Los Angeles told Angelenos that snitches get ...
It’s all in the name To the editor: When I was a kid, we had a city dump a mile north of town. It was for household garbage to get piled up and burned once a month, if the wind was right. When we moved to Fairmont, the city dump was a little northeast of town. It had an incinerator for household garbage, a good tall stack to get the smoke high enough to dissipate. Seemed to work just fine, regardless of wind direction. So, it looks like the preferred method of getting rid of garbage has always been to take it to the dump and burn it. (Up until recently, now we have to bury it, ...
Don't look now, but we seem to have a moral panic on our hands. The term moral panic, at least as a social science concept, is relatively modern. It was coined by Stanley Cohen in the 1972 book "Folk Devils and Moral Panics." Moral panics emerge when large numbers of people start to freak out ...
When American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery, while factories blackened the skies of American cities. Yet some of the same people who ...
