Ina Hughs: Geeky kids needed to understand technology
Blessed are the geeks, for they shall inherit the Earth. Well, that's not really the gospel truth, but one has to wonder, considering the rate at which we are advancing in the world of technology. By...
View ArticleIna Hughs: God doesn't punish mothers through children
Yet another bullet fired from the anti-choice crowd.
View ArticleIna Hughs: Good luck trying to avoid political topics
Aristotle once said that man, by nature, is a political animal. That goes for women, too. There's no better proof than the fact that you can no longer turn on the TV or meet a friend for lunch or go to...
View ArticleIna Hughs: Detours sometimes lead to beauty
There's bad news, good news, and after that, some nagging news. It has to do with rockslides on the Interstate 40 pass between Newport, Tenn., and Canton, N.C.
View ArticleIna Hughs: Big checks, mean ads win campaigns
Money doesn't just talk. It buys elections.
View ArticleIna Hughs: Choosing Lenten sacrifices getting harder
Today marks the beginning of Lent, a Christian observance noting the 40 days before Easter.
View ArticleIna Hughs: Limbaugh and his ilk attacking freedom
In his latest fit of verbal flatulence, Rush Limbaugh suggests that women who get health care coverage for birth control are actually prostitutes. His whacky reasoning is stunning:
View ArticleIna Hughs: During dark times, a simple hymn shone bright
The year is 1857. James Buchanan succeeds Franklin Pierce as president in the only decade in American history that has four different leaders.
View ArticleIna Hughs: Motive key to placing blame in suicide
We've all done unkind things and we've all hurt people, sometimes carelessly, sometimes knowingly. Especially when we were young. For that reason, some say former Rutgers University freshman Dharun...
View ArticleIna Hughs: Every day a sabbath, each garden a sanctuary
Here in these mountains, every week is holy. On early winter mornings, come first light, fog covers ridges and curves through valleys like incense, while bone-bare trees dance all verses of "Morning...
View ArticleIna Hughs: Lesson plan: Do your own work
Call me naive. Call me a prude, a fuddy-duddy, a geek.
View ArticleIna Hughs: Some men too quick to assert manhood
Joel Stein is my kind of anti-hero hero. If you don't recognize the name, he's a columnist for Time magazine, and if you haven't read his latest on "Short-Haired Superheroes," you're missing out on a...
View ArticleIna Hughs: On pig's feet, Brussels sprout pie and bacon milkshakes
While kids in other families played "Cow Poker" on long car trips, the five of us used to play a game we made up called Odd Food Combinations.
View ArticleIna Hughs: Conservative justices strip Constitution bare
So. Conservative Republicans want less government intrusion into their rights and privacy. Have I got that right?
View ArticleIna Hughs: PTSD is more an injury than a disorder
The word "stressed" is really "desserts" spelled backwards. But try telling that to the estimated one in every five military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who have post-traumatic stress...
View ArticleIna Hughs: Personal preference not a basis for laws
"I know this is a very sensitive and tender issue, but this is personally what I believe."
View ArticleIna Hughs: Time off is not the same as time wasted
According the National Coalition for Safer Roads, more people run red lights on Memorial Day weekend than any other time: last year, more than 2.3 million drivers in 18 states, a 27 percent higher...
View ArticleIna Hughs: Does skipping ads make one a crook?
I'm expecting any day now for that little Jiminy Cricket voice in my head to tell me I am a dirty, low-down crook.
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