This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Kids are smart. We were kids. We were smart. Right? “Smart” doesn’t mean quoting what someone else wrote or finding our way to Tahlequah. Smart...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Lots of times people want handouts, but there are those who seriously want to work. Patrick Hoagland, 30, of Phoenix was laid off. After a...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Our Parks commission has meetings, called workshops but they qualify as meetings because the commissioners are meeting as we see it. They walk around...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Has anyone ever told you to go jump in the lake? In Jeju, an island off South Korea, women who seem to have mermaid genes...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Facing east were 13 colonies full of people in a raw, unmapped land, staring at the Atlantic Ocean. Inhabitants were taxed, but not allowed...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

We don’t have that many killer whales in the Ozarks, none would be the correct number, but women of the Ozarks share a phenomenon...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Did you ever adopt a dog at the shelter? Name it, feed it, drive with it, let it sleep in the house, and finally,...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Kids are doing remarkable things. In past issues we’ve featured teenagers who insisted on doing things their way – saving part-time paychecks to buy...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Ernesto Rodriguez answers his phone. Yikes! He’s real! He lives on Catalina Island off the southern California coast, is a former psychologist, and took a...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Alex Ruiz is a server at Cinco de Mayo Mexican Grill in Douglasville, Georgia. Recently a man walked in, ordered his food and sat down...