| | | Yes kids, it's once again time for that magical moment that we call the Johnnie Carrier Mailbag. Let's check out what you, the reader, have on your mind. And I do mean you, the reader, since the mailbag contained only one stinking letter:
Dear Johnnie,
I hate my job. But I was raised not to be a quitter.
Full Story One hundred and ninety years ago, a great woman from Adams was born, and now her birthplace has been made into a museum. Susan B. Anthony, tireless advocate for the right of women to vote, was born Feb. 15, 1820. Probably most people, even in her hometown, are unaware of just what a remarkable woman she was.
Full Story Thursday February 4, 2010
First, the bad news -- reading books is about to become as complicated as listening to music has in the digital age.
Publishers and tech companies and online book distribution titans -- most specifically Amazon -- are gearing up for a battle that will no doubt punish the consumer, much as the Recording Industry Association of America has managed to pummel music
Full Story Thursday February 4, 2010
We're in the third stage of winter. In case you forgot, the first stage of winter is that little-kid feeling of the first snowfall. Seeing those first few flakes fall, you remember what it was like to go screeching down a hill, "hell bent for election" -- back to a day when a snow fort and Mom's homemade beef and barley soup were all you needed to stay
Full Story By the time you read this, Groundhog Day will have come and gone, and depending on one's perspective, we will have six more weeks of winter or not.
The second day of February, an old German holiday known as Candlemas Day, is the origin of the day that we now call Groundhog Day. The first Groundhog Day in this country was celebrated in Punxatawney, Pa.
Full Story Some notable Tuesdays have occurred recently. For example, this Tuesday was Groundhog Day, and the Tuesday before that was the State of the Union Address.
Thankfully, they didn't schedule them both for the same Tuesday. Although some people say that President Barack Obama pops his head out of the White House, and if he sees his shadow, there's six more weeks of recession.
Full Story It was the best Christmas present ever. No, it wasn't a Red Ryder BB gun. You don't give people with emotional disorders a gun. When will America realize this? Guns don't kill people; crazy people kill people. And I don't need the temptation.
My greatest Christmas present ever was a Sirius satellite radio.
Full Story Question: A married man, who believes that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry because it violates the sanctity of marriage, walks into a bar and sees many sexy women. What does he do?
Answer: Proposition 8.
Yes, America's favorite polarizing topic is up for debate yet again, as a new court case in California has been brought against Proposition 8, arguing that the same-sex
Full Story President Obama, with the approval of Congress, has granted billions of dollars of stimulus money to the bankers and big business magnates of this nation, hoping to jump start the economy and put people back to work.
Despite the effort, we still seem to be mired in the throes of a prolonged recession, with few, if any, signs of relief in sight.
Full Story The 183-page PDF file that constitutes the U.S. Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission can be reduced to three words and a simple admonition. The three-words: Money equals speech. The simple admonition: Political speech is political speech, even if it comes from a corporation.
Full Story For a while there, I couldn't really explain what interested me about the very public dispute between late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien and his television network, NBC. I'm not really keen on the entire genre of the late-night talk show, regardless who hosts. Watching them is like sitting through a long, televised publicity junket hosted by a wiseacre.
Full Story I have been approached by a few folks, who shall remain nameless for their own protection, to seriously get my common-man-and-woman theme into the political arena for the First District Representative race, better known as Dan Bosley's seat. And for some reason I just don't like the way that sounds.
Full Story The earthquake that hit Haiti is one more reason to be thankful that we live where we do. Although no place is absolutely safe, earthquakes in this area are as rare as hens with teeth, but I can recall a slight tremor that shook my home about five or six years ago.
Gwen and I were sitting at the kitchen table playing cards when something strange happened.
Full Story Some days, I'm not quite sure what to write about. I'll just sit at my computer, waiting for a sign of some sort, or maybe a -- *ringringring* *ringringring* "Hello! I'm with from the Scott Brown for Senate Campaign. We just want to let you know that Scott Brown is running for Senate, and you should vote for him.
Full Story I feel it's my civic duty as a married man of 22 years to share with the men of the nation just how to have a long-lasting relationship. Am I an authority? No. Just some regular guy who has been through the whole shooting match, with a desire to share his experience of how to capture and keep that savage beast, known as woman.
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