Editorial

Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying point in Charlottesville, Virginia.

I’ve been feeling particularly pensive in recent days. Perhaps it’s because my baby will soon be driving. How is that possible? He’s like, four. Two years ago, he came up to my shoulder.

There are people in my life who want me to give up coffee. 

Concerned, well-intentioned people. People who love me and want me to be the best I can be. 

On Aug. 23, 1892, a Gainesville newspaper confirmed the rumored death of a local politician turned train robber. 

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How is it possible that there are still 365 days in the year, but the summer season keeps shrinking? Where has it disappeared to? Has summer gone on a crash diet?

Venezuela is a woeful reminder that no country is so rich that it can’t be driven into the ground by revolutionary socialism.

David S. Terry,  a Texas expatriate with a red-hot temper, ran into a Supreme Court justice on Aug. 14, 1889 and gave his mortal enemy a piece of his mind and the back of his hand.