How about Some Good News—Any Good News

I don’t expect the sources from which I get my news to sugarcoat it or to avoid the unsavory aspects of life for uplifting human-interest stories. But sometimes the bad news does seem to have almost completely crowded out any good news. Consider the following headlines from a late August news summary from Channel 10,…

Footnote to the News (1): Missing Pieces in Mississippi

Anyone who doubts that history repeats itself has not been paying attention to the news this past week. If you recall, in 2001, as all attention seemed to be focused on the rubble of the World Trade Center towers, letters containing anthrax started showing up at the offices of newspapers and U.S. Senators. This week,…