"When humor goes, there goes civilization." — Erma Bombeck

We are more than a month into the legalized betting world in Tennessee, and unless it happened and no one told me, our ethics are intact.

Two Chattanooga women have put a silver lining in one of the cloudiest years in the history of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

It's clear we can expect scary COVID-19 headlines for a while — despite the good news of late about vaccines on the horizon.

There is a serial killer roaming among us, and its name is COVID-19.

The devil went down to Georgia. He was lookin' for a soul to steal.

Local and national public health officials could say "we told you so," but what would be the point?

A prophet, it is said in the Bible, is seldom heard in his own land.

One doesn't have to look very far to find articles that suggest our neighbors in the state of Georgia are racist for holding runoff elections in which it is required that the winner have a majority of the votes.

Prepare yourselves. Even as millions sicken and one American dies per minute, we once again are being distracted by Donald Trump's shenanigans.

President Donald Trump was right about the "deep state" — sort of. There exist, in government, people and forces rigged to foil disruption.

Public opinion polls in the aftermath of the election (if you choose to believe them) have put me in mind of the Fighting Chicken Lips, a group of young men I encountered at a tender age.

You aren't a conservative if you believe in conspiracy theories.

It may take a terrorist attack, a war or some other national emergency, but America will one day thank Justice Neil Gorsuch for his stirring words last week in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo.

In three separate announcements in recent weeks, three scientific teams at different pharmaceutical companies have given a weary, frightened world what it needs: a verifiable path to defeat the coronavirus pandemic, end the suffering and start the process of returning life to the normal rhythms of "before."