Don't Say a Word
Have you noticed that the craze today is to reveal as much about ourselves as possible without uttering a word? Before a person even says hello, we have knowledge of his inner-most feelings and beliefs. How?
Have you noticed that the craze today is to reveal as much about ourselves as possible without uttering a word? Before a person even says hello, we have knowledge of his inner-most feelings and beliefs. How?
Peter Mandel | Posted 05.01.2012
Modesty has died. You hadn't noticed? Its quiet nature made it marginal. It caught a cold. It stayed in bed. Our fireworks and gunshots killed it off.
Posted 01.02.2012
The bumper sticker has never been a medium for high art, but one could argue that a select few have achieved relative greatness. We've all seen that o...
Posted 10.21.2011
It's not uncommon for political bumper stickers to crop up during campaigns, but sometimes an image goes above and beyond its simple purpose. This is ...
Posted 09.17.2011
Face it: bumper stickers usually aren't funny. Most of the time they're either cynical, self-righteous, corny or a combination of the three. But occas...
Martha Rosenberg | Posted 09.07.2011
Once upon a time, bumper stickers were a harmless way to engage other motorists on the merry way to work or a vacation in the Wisconsin Dells.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2011
The president has announced that after an initial drawdown in Afghanistan, the remaining troops will be withdrawn "at a steady pace" going into 2014. But that's not good enough. President Obama had an opportunity to pivot his policy on the war and he didn't take it.
Vaishali | Posted 11.17.2011
How is it that all the great spiritual sayings can fit on a bumper sticker? The reason is that Universal truth is simple and straightforward.
Carine Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011
That was the wording on a sticker I saw plastered on the left rear bumper of a beat-up, faded canary-yellow Impala probably manufactured in 1965. On t...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
BRIGANTINE, N.J. — First it was Bennies, then Shoobies. Now there's another derogatory nickname for summer tourists who visit the Jersey shore: ...
Scott Shrake | Posted 05.25.2011
Having been so inspired by the message T-shirts from last weekend's Restoring Honor rally in Washington, I spent the week traveling America's 50 state...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
So, it's been a month since Inauguration Day. What do you suppose the over/under was on "number of days" before the appearance of the first "Impeach ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Now that the elections is over, it's time to breathe a sigh of relief and pluck those Obama-Biden (or McCain-Palin) signs off your front lawn. And whi...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.17.2011
On my way to work in the morning, for the past few weeks, I've amused myself by keeping track of McCain and Obama bumper stickers in a nearby parking ...
Lance Simmens | Posted 05.25.2011
We have become a wistful electorate, intoxicated by the elixir of irresponsibility that I can only guess traces back to the gee-whiz, by golly folksiness of Gerry Ford.
Ann J. Atkinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Forget Zogby, Gallup, Chris Bower's daily swing state chart (newly tweaked) on Open Left, Intrade's prediction markets, ABC, CBS, and Fox/Rasmussen an...
Craig Bloomfield | Posted 05.25.2011
Driving through the neighborhood recently, it struck me that there are no signs anywhere. None for Obama, none for McCain, none for U.S. House District 10 incumbent Mark Kirk or his Democratic challenger, Dan Seals. The only signs to be seen -- and there are plenty of these -- are For Sale signs.
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 05.25.2011
The Times standards editor, Craig Whitney, recently was on a road-trip and while on the trip, saw some political bumper stickers. Said stickers are no...
Newsweek | Sharon Begley | Posted 11.17.2011
I used to think that the most dangerous thing about bumper stickers was that they make curious drivers inch ever closer to the car in front of them in...
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011
The Kennedy family has always had special meaning in my life. I know exactly where I was when a friend yelled out to me in 1963, "The president has been shot."
Laverne H. Bardy | Posted 05.08.2012