Hal's Column
5/17/2008
Here is your mission, 2008
Script proposal: "Mission Impossible 2008 -- Saving General Clinton" ...
5/10/2008
Inflation reminds me of the 1970s
It must be especially disconcerting for today's young workers -- those born in the past 30 years or so -- to see prices jumping wildly at the gasoline pump and at the grocery store. It's disconcerting enough for those of us who lived through the inflationary years of the 1970s and early 1980s. ...
5/3/2008
Obama makes a fine appearance
The crowd at the Beddingfield High School gym was eager and enthusiastic Monday night. Barack Obama was coming, and many in the audience were there to pay tribute to a personal hero. ...
4/26/2008
Need a brand? We got 'em
The Wilson County Tourism Development Authority is on the lookout for a new Wilson slogan, something that will "brand" the city and do as much for English grammar as "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." ...
4/19/2008
Irrelevance of race? Not yet
Mulatto, quadroon, octoroon. ...
4/12/2008
Death, taxes and software
Three days from now, millions of procrastinating Americans will be hustling to get their tax forms finished and in the mail before the annual deadline. I won't be among them. I finished my taxes and grudgingly wrote the check to the U.S. Treasury a few weeks ago. ...
5/17/2008
Here is your mission, 2008
Script proposal: "Mission Impossible 2008 -- Saving General Clinton" ...
5/10/2008
Inflation reminds me of the 1970s
It must be especially disconcerting for today's young workers -- those born in the past 30 years or so -- to see prices jumping wildly at the gasoline pump and at the grocery store. It's disconcerting enough for those of us who lived through the inflationary years of the 1970s and early 1980s. ...
5/3/2008
Obama makes a fine appearance
The crowd at the Beddingfield High School gym was eager and enthusiastic Monday night. Barack Obama was coming, and many in the audience were there to pay tribute to a personal hero. ...
4/26/2008
Need a brand? We got 'em
The Wilson County Tourism Development Authority is on the lookout for a new Wilson slogan, something that will "brand" the city and do as much for English grammar as "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." ...
4/19/2008
Irrelevance of race? Not yet
Mulatto, quadroon, octoroon. ...
4/12/2008
Death, taxes and software
Three days from now, millions of procrastinating Americans will be hustling to get their tax forms finished and in the mail before the annual deadline. I won't be among them. I finished my taxes and grudgingly wrote the check to the U.S. Treasury a few weeks ago. ...






