http://www.enewscourier.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:23:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_318192618.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_318192618.html Leave it to the Brits to come up with something even more useless than the royal family or those soldiers with the big, furry hats. This month in a London shopping center, they have introduced the Manpod, a tiny cubicle filled with entertainment and electronic devices where a man can sit in the middle of the mall while his wife is shopping. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:08:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_311191336.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_311191336.html Remember those commercials that showed us how our brains on drugs might look — you know, the egg sizzling in a frying pan? The problem is, some people’s brains were already fried BEFORE using illegal substances. So they just jumped from the frying pan into the stupid sauce. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_304170449.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_304170449.html We in the newsroom are not the types to joke about someone’s misfortune. I mean, y’all know I try not to judge, right? But it’s not every day you hear a dispatcher tell officers to hurry to Elm Street where a man is swerving down the road driving his motorized wheelchair. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:18:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_297232418.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_297232418.html I heard some news last week that nearly made me spit out my Hershey bar, so y’all know it must have been truly disturbing. It’s about Barbie — hold your breath — she’s got cankles. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_290180000.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_290180000.html I am now accepting tips and I don’t mean those along the lines of “Your column stinks.” I mean the green kind. The kind of tip that goes in the bank. Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:39:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_283194635.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_283194635.html Sigh. I’ve grown accustomed to the fact that my teen daughter has to teach me to text message and set up a Facebook page, but who would have guessed I would need her help navigating the grocery aisles? Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:38:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_276213933.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_276213933.html Y’all remember last year when I wrote about pantyhose and tried to warn men that wearing pantyhose would lead to the downfall of their entire gender? Alas, it seems my warnings have come to naught. Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:23:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_269212306.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_269212306.html I know this kind of column makes my friends nervous (“What guy is gonna want to date her now?”) but I tell them not to worry: As a general rule, boneheads don’t know they’re boneheads and, thus, won’t know this column is about them. Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_262191027.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_262191027.html Who’s in charge of revoking Southern membership? We need to find him and tell him to kick Atlanta-born Kanye West out of our club. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:41:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_102062248.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_102062248.html Kelly Kazek was born in Warner Robins, Ga., in whichever year adds up to her being 35. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:19:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_254141853.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_254141853.html Then it occurred to me that chefs like to use many words to describe food that I would like to use to describe myself.Rich. Sweet. Non-fat. Tart.Well, that last one not so much.But voluptuous? Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:45:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_248194457.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_248194457.html So that’s my column on humor writing, which, by the way, was not a ploy to plug my book.Just be sure to look for my next book: “Peanut Butter on My Cat: Things Drunk Dogs Do.” Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:02:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_241220633.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_241220633.html While I am known for my propensity for living on the edge — like raising a 16 year old, three cats and a cell-phone-and-hammer-eating beagle puppy all by my onesies — I do not typically do things that put my very life in jeopardy. But today I feel I must take this risk. Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:49:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_234185458.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_234185458.html I was driving along, minding my own business. But the site of a small, yellow, diamond-shaped sign with three little words nearly made me run off the road. Baby on Board. Innocent-seeming words, perhaps, but frightening in their cuteness to anyone who lived through the 1980s. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:28:00 +0000 http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_226182816.html http://www.enewscourier.com/columns/local_story_226182816.html We in the South cannot hold a proper funeral without at least half a dozen pecan pies, a couple of sweet tater casseroles, some nanner pudding, 10 or so congealed salads with canned fruit suspended in them, two peach cobblers and an eight-layer chocolate-strawberry trifle.It just wouldn’t be fittin.’