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Partial to home: Spicy, sweet, salty and sour -- all in the same bite
The first thing you want to ask Sao Timratthana is how he went from being a cook at a Buddhist monastery in Tibet to owning a Thai restaurant on Wilkins-Wise Road in Columbus, Mississippi.
Rheta Johnson: Confederacy of dunces
It was Cormac McCarthy cold, the wind rushing through deserted and dark buildings, whipping at loose trash that increasingly piled up on the rutted streets.
Leonard Pitts: You can't fix education by lowering the bar
As I recall, I scored 960 on my SAT. This was good enough for second best in my class and many congratulations and backslaps from teachers and administrators. Based on that, I thought I'd done pretty well.
Susan Estrich: The mandate to raise taxes on the 'rich'
Within days of winning the election, President Obama announced that his victory gave him a mandate to raise taxes on the "rich."
George Will: Digesting the lessons of Twinkies
Earthquakes may strike, dynasties may fall and locusts may devour the crops, but Oldsmobile and Pan Am are forever. Never mind.
George Will: For these things, we give thanks
Among the things for which Americans can be thankful on this weekend devoted to such is Washington's resolve to temper severity with mercy: It will seriously -- this time we really mean business; we are not going to be Greece, or worse, Illinois -- restrain spending but will not balance the budget on the backs of popcorn eaters.
Froma Harrop: Bobo and a Bigfoot skeptic, over drinks
Forgive me, Bobo, but I do not believe in Bigfoot. Nevertheless, it was a delight spending a Saturday afternoon with you -- the sasquatch hunter from Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" -- in, of all places, a midtown Manhattan bar.
Our view: Dreaming of a white Thanksmas ...
Happy Thanksgiving or -- as it will soon be called -- Thanksmas.
Leonard Pitts: Amid conflict, a time to give thanks
He had lost a son many years before, the boy barely more than a toddler when he died. Now another son was dead and grief sat on him like the shawl that draped his shoulders as he rattled around the big, cold house.
Our view: The wars we didn't have to fight
It is doubtful that Josie Shumake was chosen to speak at Tuesday's meeting of the Columbus Rotary Club in deference to Thanksgiving.
Susan Estrich: Half-full glasses
Like many people, I have a tendency to spend more time thinking about what's wrong than what's right, what's missing rather than what is there, what I don't have instead of what I do.
Voice of the people: Fred Bell
Our view: Shop locally and keep it in the family
In a Dispatch online poll a few days ago, we asked readers where they would likely do their Black Friday shopping. Although we make no claim of scientific accuracy, the poll results do at least provide some insight into the attitudes of our community.
Wyatt Emmerich: Search for graves of ancestors a life-affirming pilgrimage
It was maybe 20 years ago when I got a call from a woman I did not know. She had purchased the house of my recently deceased grandmother, Lyda Will Wyatt Emmerich.
Voice of the people:Melody Vydas
Voice of the people: Cameron Triplett
In a recent column, Leonard Pitts wrote of "The sad state of zealots with microphones."
Partial to home: Storytellers, present and past
If you took in any of the first annual Possum Town Tales Storytelling Festival, you don't need anyone to tell you how good it was.
George Will: Answerable to no one
There can be unseemly exposure of the mind as well as of the body, as the progressive mind is exposed in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a creature of the labyrinthine Dodd-Frank legislation. Judicial dismantling of the CFPB would affirm the rule of law and Congress's constitutional role.
Leonard Pitts: The sad state of zealots with microphones
America, you are an idiot. You are a moocher, a zombie, soulless, mouth-breathing, ignorant, greedy, self-indulgent, envious, shallow and lazy.
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