In a time where chaos reigns, the memorial service for Jimmy Carter was a formal and traditional ritual that seemed almost anachronistic. It was as decent and gracious as the man himself.

somehow humans have managed to contaminate land and the atmosphere, the same land that went unharmed for thousands of years with Indigenous inhabitants. Some of the most educated among us now look to them for answers.

Kitty’s was hoppin’, mostly on knee and hip replacements. Between the Magellan fishing shirts and the guayaberas, there wasn’t a tucked-in shirt in the house. Kirk started hitting the famous cowbell beat to kick off “Honky Tonk Woman,” and the place erupted.

For more than two centuries, we have been standing on documents assuming they provided an impenetrable foundation only to learn that we’re floating on a leaky life raft.

"There are recurrent types of people who will return to their folly as a dog to his vomit. They play the same roles and do similar things every 80 years, according to the theory." Rinse. Repeat.

People who believe it’s okay to force women to have babies, to cheat fellow humans out of jobs, homes, and opportunities, or to shove children to their deaths in bodies of water, evidently operate from a belief system that people who look like them are valuable and those who don’t are not.

In his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” Hunter claimed he had “no recollection of our encounter.” That recollection was no doubt clouded by a Vesuvius of Peruvian Marching Powder.

Just take your deal and go away.