http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists Reg Henry's column en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Thu, 9 Sep 2010 01:09:58 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085729-154.stm?cmpid=henry.xml Americans live in the Home of the Brave but sometimes you would never know it from some of their preposterous fears. Every so often, a new fear will circulate among the public like a bolt of electricity to thrill people with imaginary dread. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10244/1084042-154.stm?cmpid=henry.xml When my father was about 95 and living in a nursing home, he complained to me about the younger women he had met there. "These younger women," he said, "they can't make good conversation -- they don't know anything about football." His younger women oblivious to football would have been in their 80s at the time. Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10237/1082378-154.stm?cmpid=henry.xml The recent Pew Research Center poll that found almost one in five Americans believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim raises a delicate question. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10230/1080720-154.stm?cmpid=henry.xml When the great Monty Python team wanted to switch to something different in their TV show, Graham Chapman would come on dressed as a British colonel and officiously move everyone along because the skit had become "far too silly." Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10223/1079040-154.stm?cmpid=henry.xml Today we shall put aside all political battles to discuss a more insidious conflict: The one constantly waged between mankind and machines. It must first be understood that some people have technological aptitude. Others -- and that includes me -- have technological ineptitude. We who are not at peace with technology pay dearly for this. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400