OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: How we offend
I'm starting to think that if there's anything at which Americans most truly excel, it's at finding offense.
Brenda Looper
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Political whiplash
Anyone else feel like they've been hit by a truck?
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Cool it down
I well remember the day that Ronald Reagan was shot. Our class had its usual TV time (usually "Electric Company," I believe) when news came of the attempted as…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Yelling at clouds
OK, I know it's been really hot out there and (hopefully) cooler in your homes, but I'm concerned about some of y'all. Maybe a welfare check is in order. At th…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Love of country
With Independence Day upon us, celebrating 248 years as a nation, my thoughts turn, as they often do, to the meaning of patriotism.
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Out of the heat
It's finally officially summer, and even before the season began, my opinion of it remained the same.
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Let people rule
This past weekend was pretty busy for me, with finishing up one house/cat-sitting gig and getting ready for another, going to a ceramics sale for a friend who'…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Can the jargon
I get a lot of press releases on my work email.
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Partisan pits
We did this to ourselves. We have no one else to blame.
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Not so funny
I joke. A lot. Mostly at my own expense, but sometimes it's watching the reaction of a cat I'm sitting who is bound and determined to find the cat purring in m…