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Are you ready for some football?
It is that time of season when sports fans are inundated with football. You have high school football on Friday nights, college football on Saturdays and NFL football on Sundays. But wait. Nowadays you pretty much have some kind of football about every day of the week. While high school football is routinely on Friday…
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The Democratic Party is changing
This is not the Democratic Party of our parents or grandparents. If you have been paying attention to primary elections across the United States, you have probably noticed the growing influence of democratic socialists within Democratic politics. Several candidates affiliated with or backed by the Democratic Socialists of America have won Democratic nominations this year,…
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Orange barrels, potholes, gas prices and a legend
Do you not wish you had bought stock in the orange and white construction barrels and cones? Just between Williamson and Charleston on Corridor G, there always seems to be ongoing roadwork and plenty of barrels to redirect traffic. Now, if you drive from Williamson on U.S. 119 to Pikeville, you will see many of…
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Back to school memories
Summer vacation breaks were much longer in years past. It is surprising how soon many school districts return to school in this day and age. Many of them go back the first week of August—most a few days after that. I know I am giving away my “baby boomer” age. But we did not go…
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Term limits needed for Congress
I have felt for years that the United States needs term limits for the U.S. Senate and congressional seats. I will go a step further and say we need them for local and state offices like state senators and delegates. Career politicians eventually get complacent, and I feel they are more concerned about getting reelected…
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My favorite football movies
With gridiron season nearly upon us, I thought about all the football movies made over the years. If you do the research, there are a lot more than you think, going all the way back to the 1920s. There are several great older black-and-white movies, like “Horse Feathers” with the Marx Brothers, “Knute Rockne-All American”…
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Cleaning out the notebook
It is sometimes difficult to come up with a topic for a weekly column. So there are notes I keep on various subjects that are not necessarily long enough for a column. But if I combine them, it can provide some interesting tidbits that readers may find informative or even useful. So here we go…
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It is an Appalachian food thing
Growing up in this region of Appalachia, you likely ate certain foods you might not find elsewhere in the country. Appalachian cuisine is a style of food from the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. For example, most of us grew up eating soup (pinto) beans and cornbread.…
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Inconsistent English language
Did you ever wonder why the word pneumonia starts with a “p.” I mean the first letter is silent and really does not belong. My dad Sam Lovern always laughed at the spelling of this word and said it should be pronounced “pugh-moan-yuh.” Thus we have the age-old question of the inconsistent English language that…
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How do you like your hot dog?
I hope you and your family had a blessed Fourth of July holiday weekend. I am sure there were a lot of barbecues – or, as we say in this region, “cookouts.” No doubt there was a lot of hot dog consumption across the United States. While lying in bed recuperating from my recent knee surgery,…
