Opinion & Columns

A collar is the canine equivalent of the wedding ring. Once a collar is purchased for a dog, there is no going back.

“I think, fundamentally, drivers are wired wrong. At some point every driver will experience something that would give a normal person pause.”

Have you ever thought about the march of progress? For many millennia, our ancestors lived much the same way. You could die, be brought back to life 10,000 years later, and discover nothing had changed. Food was still wormy and rancid, tools were still made of rocks, folks still walked everywhere, and the Cubs were still losing. Then, a rapid series of developments dramatically increased the rate of human progress: the domestication of animals; the forging of metals; the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture; the emergence of written language, eventually followed by the printing press, which permitted the dissemination of ideas, which inevitably led to the computer chip, which culminated in our generation’s greatest invention, the battery-powered pepper-grinder.

He went from Indiana University of Pennsylvania to Elon University, then to James Madison before landing at IU as head coach—and never posted a losing record. The trend of success Cignetti has had for the last 14 years is virtually unmatched. We caught up with him just as his latest stunning season wrapped.

We’re all susceptible to getting swept up in the mob mentality of fandom to some degree.

To free up space in the garage, people are going to need to begin sharing tools—starting with my neighbors.

Reading other people’s bucket lists is fun, but I’ve never had the desire to compile one myself. Risk-takers yearn to climb Mount Everest and sail the blue Pacific, but boring people such as I are satisfied spending their days bundled up in an afghan while watching reruns of The Big Bang Theory and eating Double Stuf Oreos.

Thirty years ago, Lady Di married Prince Charles, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were born, and gas cost $1.25 a gallon. That same year, Dallas was the top TV show, President Reagan fired 11,000 striking air traffic controllers, and somebody introduced the term “Internet.”