by Advocate Staff | Dec 28, 2015 | Articles
It’s been a while, but the Advocate’s Halos and Horns review of the past year is back! Last year, the popular series took a hiatus as a new staff came on. And before that the section had been shrinking year after year. I love Halos and Horns. Growing up, it was my...
by Chuck Shepherd | Dec 28, 2015 | Articles, News, News of the Weird
According to the flabbergasted sheriff of rural Chesterfield County, South Carolina, “This has completely changed our definition of (what constitutes) an ‘ass-load’ of guns.” Brent Nicholson, 51, had been storing more than 7,000 firearms in his home and a storage...
by Kristin Palpini | Dec 21, 2015 | Articles
Sitting around the office discussing the news and spilling coffee down my sweater, I can’t believe we’re almost to 2016 and a proper to-go coffee cup lid is yet to be invented — or at least, widely used. My gripes got the Advocate staff thinking about what other...
by Chuck Shepherd | Dec 21, 2015 | Articles, News, News of the Weird
As if 2015 weren’t bad enough for the Department of Homeland Security — e.g., in June, internal DHS tests revealed that its Transportation Security Administration failed to stop 67 of 70 guns passing through airport screeners — a U.S. congressman revealed in December...
by Kristin Palpini | Dec 21, 2015 | Articles, Arts
At the Advocate, we love “difficult” women. The label is often applied to women who speak their minds without apology, have sincere desires, and are tenacious in reaching their goals — all things we really admire in people. But only as they apply to women are these...
