Something has been bothering me. As a parent, maybe it’s bothering you. Recently the Parents’ Television Council (PTC) made it known they were also bothered. The PTC shouted at the tops of their lungs about inappropriate TV fare.
Sending out a slew of letters to affiliates of the CW Network concerning the network’s teen-targeted episode featuring inappropriate behavior, the PTC said affiliates airing the episode would be: “complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films.”
by Allyn Evans
on December 9, 2009, 3:04 pm
Tidings of comfort and joy
Nowadays we hardly get Thanksgiving over with before we start putting up the Christmas decorations. The stores have had them up since before Halloween, but that’s the retail business. This is, after all, the biggest money making time of the year, and they tell us that getting everybody in the mood to buy stuff is important to the economy. Which is probably true, especially in a year such as this one.
by Dawn Dillon Barrett
on December 9, 2009, 3:01 pm
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Sometimes we seem like people on a pleasure boat drifting down the Niagara river, unaware that there are waterfalls up ahead. I don't know what people think is going to happen when a nation that already sponsors international terrorism has nuclear bombs to give to terrorists around the world.
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for?
by Thomas Sowell
on December 9, 2009, 2:59 pm
Christmas Smiles
“Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration
is being wreathed in smiles.” ~ Anon
by Beth Jacks
on December 9, 2009, 2:56 pm
It was standing room only at the recent "Holiday Extravaganza" held at the Pike County Extension Office in Magnolia. Shretta Varnado, MSUES Family Resource Management Area Agent was the program coordinator/presenter. Other presenters included Christine Montgomery, MSUES Volunteer Money Mentor, Ernestine Varnado, St. Andrews Mission Parish Nurse, Frances Williams, Pike County 4-H Agent, LaToya Selmon, MSUES Health Area Agent and Navleen Pittman, Lawrence County 4-H Program Associate.
on December 8, 2009, 1:50 pm
Black Friday, the day when businesses hope that they, at our expense, get out of the red and into the black. In other words, they wish you would shop yourself into debt in order to get them out of it.
by Rev. W. Lamar Massingill
on December 2, 2009, 7:53 pm
Brussels Sprouts with Shallots and Mushrooms
3 pounds Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved lengthwise
1/3 cup olive oil
½ tablespoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon kosher salt
* freshly ground black pepper
Put oven rack in upper third of oven and preheat oven to 450 degrees. Toss Brussels sprouts with oil, garlic, salt and pepper, then spread out in 1 layer in 2 large shallow baking pans. Roast, stirring occasionally. Switch position of pans halfway through roasting, until tender and browned, 25 to 35 minutes.
For the shallots:
1 cup vegetable oil
by Ann McKeown
on December 2, 2009, 6:47 pm
It's been weeks since eyewitnesses reported that Maj. Nidal Hasan shouted "Allahu akbar" before spraying Fort Hood with gunfire, killing 13 people.
Since then we also learned that Hasan gave a medical lecture on beheading infidels and pouring burning oil down their throats (unfortunately not covered under the Senate health care bill). Some wondered if perhaps a pattern was beginning to emerge but were promptly dismissed as racist cranks.
by Ann Coulter
on December 2, 2009, 6:28 pm
“Colored lights, mistletoe, the smell of evergreen and at the end of the road there’s a sweet manger scene. Yes, there is a star shining bright over our hearts tonight. It’s a small town Mississippi Christmas and the only kind for me. Because a small town Mississippi Christmas is as good as it could ever be.”
by Paul Ott
on December 2, 2009, 6:25 pm
I caught the end of yet another episode of World’s Strictest Parents—the good part where parents retrieved their child and the teens showed gratitude and weren’t whining. For the most part, the parents appeared to be warm, loving and supportive. With seven episodes under my belt, I’d been wondering how things go so terribly wrong.
This time I had an answer. Permissiveness.
by Allyn Evans
on December 2, 2009, 6:21 pm
