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Displaying items by tag: lancemartin

Friday, 01 August 2014 15:35

A primer on columns

I'm going to make a concerted effort to have a column or editorial once a week.

Published in Opinion
Tuesday, 22 July 2014 16:42

Is it because you're bald?

Even after Andre Agassi came out of the closet as bald and even after Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio, we, as hairless people, are still discriminated against.

Published in Opinion
Monday, 30 June 2014 14:52

Drawing a red card on Coulter's column

I think about the only point Ann Coulter made in her pointless column about soccer is that she should be red-carded for ignorance.

Published in Opinion

Perhaps the most ludicrous thing I've heard on ESPN radio, between apologizing for the Miami Heat's poor performance in the NBA finals, was the notion that a U.S. FIFA World Cup championship would erase the finest accomplishment in our country's sports history — the 1980 men's hockey gold medal in the Winter Games.

Published in Opinion
Friday, 23 May 2014 14:53

The last movie I saw in Roanoke Rapids

The last movie I saw in Roanoke Rapids was the Dark Knight. I plan to see more here now.

Published in Opinion
Tuesday, 29 April 2014 08:17

Appreciation of the river under the dome

Fifteen minutes under The GeoDome, you come to realize we are truly the river, or, perhaps, the river is us.

Published in Opinion
Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:38

Ask me why we can't have nice things

If you ask me why we can't have nice things, my answer would be a blunt because our attitudes stink.

Published in Opinion
Tuesday, 18 February 2014 10:16

The Friday of my discontent

In most instances imaginable, I am weird.

Published in Opinion
Monday, 03 February 2014 16:03

Here's that list of Coke products to boycott

Here, to begin with, is the exhaustive list of Coca-Cola products you will have to boycott if you found the soda company's stirring, patriotic ad aired during the Super Bowl offensive.

Published in Opinion
Monday, 27 January 2014 13:07

Ruminations on milk and bread

The funniest thing about winter, other than leathery-skinned tanned people fainting when the mercury drops below 50, is the milk and bread crowd.

Published in Opinion
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