Christmas in Dixie

Everyone from chiropractors to registered nurses is touting ear stapling as the be-all, end-all New Age weight-loss strategy. Plug your ear with one staple, the story goes, and the fat slides off you like butter on top of a hot yeast roll...

Lured in by the comfy seats, plentiful electrical sockets, and lack of lunchtime traffic, I wrote for an hour or so at a local Starbucks today. (I know, I know ... they're the evil empire. But at least their wall-mounted menus aren't framed with...

If you live in Jackson, Mississippi, you've probably rented at least one movie from Video Library -- one of the largest video stores in the southeast, and Jackson's last independently-owned video store. For more than twenty-five years, my partner...