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The future looks like a crapshoot

You might say I’ve been a cockeyed optimist all these years. Or foolish and naive. I’ve never been with the people who proclaim that the country and the world are going to hell, that we’re doomed, that life will be miserable in the year ... well, anytime in the future.“I’m glad I’m ...

Don’t run out of toilet paper

?I read an expression the other day: “Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end of the roll, the faster it goes.” If I were writing this two years ago, it would be with a lot deeper fear, but there are always lifeĢƵ question marks.?My wife tested positive for ...

Time to retire the perp walk

<em>EditorĢƵ note: Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond in on sabbatical. This is a reprint of a column from 2019.</em>LetĢƵ talk about a police practice known as the perp walk. ItĢƵ the walk of shame of a suspected perpetrator of a crime, usually in a case ...

A plea for compromise

I’m still trying to process what to write about something for which I feel so much passion. It used to be the Democrats primarily stood for social justice and Republicans stood for individual justice, and then the two sides would debate and come together on compromises that allowed our ...

Have we finally decided enough is enough?

Want to fully appreciate the strangeness of our times and the peculiar set of priorities some of us have? Think about this: It might well be easier in some places for a teenager to get their hands on an assault weapon than a copy of a novel like “The HandmaidĢƵ Tale” or a history of ...