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Reg Henry: We live in Most Interesting Man times
A TV commercial for Dos Equis beer featured the “Most Interesting Man in the World.” Do you recall this ad?
1 week ago
Reg Henry: Finding purpose in life between dogs
In retirement, ever mobile, one cannot always commit to a canine. But lady luck has shone upon me: Being a hip uncle nearby pooches.
1 month ago
Reg Henry: Luck of the DNA: My eyes are smiling
Ireland accounted for an estimated 55 percent of my DNA, Great Britain 14 percent and Scandinavia 10 percent.
1 month ago
Reg Henry: How to destroy America: an evil-genius guide
My plan starts with a government of the people, that can only be destroyed if the people are confused, cynical and estranged from reality.
1 month ago
Reg Henry: No worries? No way
What with mass shootings, police shootings, Brexit and Trump, this seems a pretty good time to worry.
2 months ago
Reg Henry: This verbal tic makes Trump tick, OK?
In the big mouth of Mr. Trump, “OK” can be part threat, and part invitation to listeners to accept something stupid as fact.
3 months ago
Reg Henry: Stalling on Garland, GOP defiles Constitution
Doing nothing on Supreme Court vacancy is the one option the Founding Fathers did not anticipate.
3 months ago
Reg Henry: Of bathrooms, birth certificates and overreach
North Carolina is in a tizzy over where transgender people may heed nature’s call, but Obama administration reaction plays into worst fears.
4 months ago
Reg Henry: Look on the bright side of the Trump rise
Who could have guessed that inflaming the party’s base by promoting universal cynicism and discord would lead to a political revolution?
4 months ago
Reg Henry: A little hipster grows in Brooklyn
America has always been great and every new American born free of the old prejudices makes it better.
5 months ago
Reg Henry: It's a presidential primary for the birds
Bernie Sanders is an odd duck, even in a year when the strangest flock of feather brains is stirring.
5 months ago
Reg Henry: Men behaving badly get $140 million?
Hulk Hogan’s victory over Gawker for publishing a sex video of him is one ugly way to think about the First Amendment.
6 months ago
Reg Henry: 'Trump will never win' and other fantasies
Trump is not a conservative. Yet many Republicans don’t care about the values and beliefs they were supposed to care about. They’re suckers.
6 months ago
Reg Henry: Basking in the wisdom of little kids
I went back to Australia for my lesson, kneeling down before my grandchildren, ages 4 and 2, to soak up the life affirmation.
7 months ago
Reg Henry: The rules for wearing my new Speedo
In retirement, I have become a swimmer. That requires a proper swim suit. Which my wife bought me, and then recoiled in horror.
7 months ago
Reg Henry: America needs an anger management class
A poll announced earlier this month confirmed what we already knew — that Americans are in a growing state of rage.
8 months ago
Reg Henry: Trump is a great, and I mean it
(Don’t tell his supporters but this column is reverse psychology.) HEY FOLKS, THIS LIBERAL MEDIA GUY THINKS DONALD IS THE BEST THING EVER.
8 months ago
Reg Henry: The Wild West lives in gun-totin' USA
Many think the solution to more gun violence is more guns. We are all safer, right? Absolutely, as long as the Tooth Fairy has a pistol.
8 months ago
Reg Henry: At 'Star Wars,' the force (of youth) awakens
Where were you, in 1977, when the first Star Wars movie came out? Well, that was a galaxy far, far away.
8 months ago
Reg Henry: Women, it’s your year (thank heavens)
Bold prediction: Hillary Clinton will be elected president next year. That’s just one leading indicator of womankind’s advancement.
8 months ago
Reg Henry: Christmas spirit is immune to the elements
The traditions are joyful window-dressing to the miracle of the story. In other words, Jesus is not offended by a lack of snow.
9 months ago
Reg Henry: Embracing the bliss of rejecting reality
I don’t want climate change doom from scientific know-it-alls. I want the luxury of blissful denial. I want to become a conservative.
9 months ago
Reg Henry: Trump and Cruz, crusaders for insanity
Trump keeps transgressing the limits of human decency; Cruz wants to ensure that terrorists can get lethal weapons. Life is a carnival.
9 months ago
Reg Henry: A ray of hope in humor-deficient times
I am often contacted by readers lacking any obvious sense of humor. Sadly, they take everything I write literally.
9 months ago
Reg Henry: Nothing to fear except fearful common sense
Common sense suggests we defeat Islamic terrorism with the help of decent Muslims who want to be our friends.
10 months ago
Reg Henry: It’s best for us to carry on, calm or not
The British slogan that never got to promote wartime sang-froid is subject to endless jokey variations today. We were once amused.
10 months ago
Reg Henry: Fitbit and other algorithms of tyranny
Much of modern living makes life worse. Exhibit A: Fitbit, the intrusive device that disables the body’s natural state (such as, repose).
10 months ago
Reg Henry: GOP’s media complaints are laughable
The CNBC debate reminded me a bit of Oscar Wilde’s famous quip about fox hunting — the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.
10 months ago
Reg Henry: All-day breakfast is a half-baked idea
Breakfast all day sounds like a bit more than we should bite off.
11 months ago
Reg Henry: Jerks can still do good, as Steve Jobs showed
If Jobs was a jerk, at least he was a successful one.
11 months ago
Reg Henry: Playboy’s cover-up is barely shocking
The Playboy cover-up seems more than just a bare reaction to the times.
11 months ago
Reg Henry: He’s gone but dying someday to return
He’s dying for a chance to return to Pittsburgh, but maybe not real soon.
11 months ago
Reg Henry: The refugee crisis that we cannot ignore
Our nation, so long the world’s moral conscience, has not shown as much public sympathy toward these refugees as might have been expected.
12 months ago
Reg Henry: Republicans make politics seem like kids' stuff
At the GOP presidential debates, most of the candidates displayed political outlooks suitable for children’s story. Like these ...
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Hamilton’s just the man for $10 bill
Hamilton’s the wrong man to downgrade on American currency.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Sherlock stories show novel strengths
What makes Sherlock Holmes so enduringly popular? It’s elementary to any reader.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: GOP elite created its Trump troubles
Trump’s success is the sorry result the GOP elite deserves.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Just grin and bear NYC’s topless
NYC officials need more of a grin-and-bear-it attitude about Times Square’s topless women.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Oh, what a glorious mess grandkids make
They arrive and cause a commotion that never stops — until they leave, and a deafening silence sets in.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: The anti-PC crowd’s criticism misfires
In these politically correct times, people go way overboard in denouncing what’s PC.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: We must trumpet Trump to the gods
We send an open letter to the gods on behalf of the mighty Donald Trump.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: If a man falls in the woods, who hears?
Hiking in the Adirondacks, I made one false move and, boom, a wounded ankle. What ensued was a parable for our times.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Irritation from passwords is no secret
It’s no secret how passwords can drive a man crazy.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: The hottest thing about men is grilling
When the heat gets hot, the men get grilling.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Marriage decision timed to perfection
Court’s timing on gay marriage decision couldn’t have been better.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: U.S. pols just keep getting curiouser
Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland has nothing on modern America’s curious state.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Road trash picker nearly cleaned up
There’s money to be made in cleaning up highways, if only for a minute.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Warnings desired for women’s sex pill
Women’s form of Viagra will need its own warnings.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: FIFA gives us something to kick about
FIFA indictments just might kick off much wider sports investigations.
1 year ago
Reg Henry: Honor the fallen but not follies of war
Memorial Day brings grim reminders of the what’s wrong with the present.
1 year ago
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