Technology is such an integral part of our lives that it behooves you to be savvy in the ways of the digital domain. And tech is so simple! You need only two things to be a cyber warrior: 1. A doctorate's in computer science. 2. A tanker truck filled with Sam Adams beer...

For weeks now folks have been complaining about TSA and its invasive search procedures. Full-body scanners and aggressive pat-downs don't agree with the flying public. I haven't traveled by air recently so I can't say one way or the other if the procedures are invasive. Personally I wouldn't want the full-body scanner treatment - not until I've lost 40 pounds. And if the pat-down I receive from security personnel is "aggressive" I'd at least like to have their telephone number...

Thursday I wrote a check to pay off my credit card balance. It wasn't a lot of money as the crow borrows but it was enough to cause my eyebrows to go up the way your eyebrows go up when you climb into those fat jeans and they cut off the circulation to your head...

I'm a journalist, not a doctor. If I were the latter, you'd see me at the golf course. Because I'm the former, you see me at the thrift store. But just because I didn't graduate from med school doesn't mean I can't make a few common-sense, connect-the-dots assumptions about the health of American children...

Doesn't matter. The names have become so strange I can't relate to them. For instance, one of the top girls' names is predicted to be "Bella." Are you kidding? Bella, as in "Twilight"? Try explaining to your daughter she was named for a vampire's broody girlfriend...

The problem of inappropriate posts on the website isn't specific to the Mountain Home News. The following blog was written by Del Stone Jr. of the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach, FL. But it reflects some of our own attitudes here about those who abuse the comment opportunity we provide them...