Editorial

by DANNY TYREE “D o you mind if we have leftovers?” When my wife poses that question, I always answer, “No, that’s fine,” because (a) I genuinely enjoy leftovers, (b) I don’t want to cause extra trouble for her and (c) I can’t afford the airline tickets to transport a Tupperware container of six-day-old broccoli to all those “starving children on the other side of the world who would give their right arm for a fraction of the food you and your siblings are wasting.”

- The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops

I s the glass half empty or half full?

I n the age of Amazon, delivery apps and curbside pickup, Black Friday is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

T he director of the FBI and the head of Britain’s MI5 security service recently made an unprecedented joint appearance to warn the world of a singular danger.

P lease pardon me, but I am always overcome by mawkish sentimentality at this time of year.

D o we prefer abortion? It’s something we must ask ourselves given the election results in places like Michigan and California, where some radical changes have been made to those states’ constitutions regarding abortion rights. In Montana, voters chose not to protect infants born alive in a botched abortion. Do people really believe that’s OK? Has 49 years of legal abortion numbed us to violence and inhumanity?