October 5, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Newspaper stiffs, the ones I’ve known and the one that is me, are not political in the organized party sense. You get jaundiced early in the game covering template speeches and… Continue reading

September 28, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Slicing a sandwich is such an easy thing, routine, quickly forgotten, or is it? We all have our habits, instilled by family, by culture, by individual preference, even a bit of… Continue reading

September 21, 2025 By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com When I was editorial page editor of the former Rockland Journal-News in Nyack, N.Y., I met a bully. Not in person but in writing. Part of the job was to read what… Continue reading

September 14, 2025 By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      As newspapers morph from print to digital, even disappear, an old habit does as well: The two, three-finger exercise.       Remember your father or mother reading the paper, either… Continue reading

September 7, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Some of us passed the driver’s license test when, if you took it on a car with automatic transmission, your document was stamped with a warning that you could drive only… Continue reading

September 1, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Hail unions on this Labor Day weekend. Once upon a time in post-war America, in the small towns, in the big cities, the middle class was growing, aided by the great… Continue reading

August 24, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III the columnrule.com With the uber-hot summer hitting my part of the Northeast this summer, especially with southern-style high humidity, memory returns to a then rural part of the universe in New York… Continue reading

August 17, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com How do you sit with silence? There are withdrawal symptoms when you stop talking to someone you have met almost every day. Perhaps the person moved away or passed or the… Continue reading

August 10, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com If you live in an area long enough – some decades – and you drive the same roads or walk the same paths, you can in memory visit other times, say… Continue reading

August 3, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com I am not monkeying around, truly. Just using a “monkey wrench,” a screw-adjustable tightener/loosener probably given that term by the British because their 18th-19th century “coach” wrenches had jaws that looked… Continue reading