Category: Gary D. Gaddy Columns
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Duke discovers it’s in North Carolina
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University President Richard Broadhead announced today that researchers from the University's geography department had just discovered that the Duke campus was physically located in the state…
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UNC finds cure for Political Incorrectness
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Political Incorrectness (PnC), a neurological condition often characterized by scholars as narrow-mindedness, can now be effectively and efficiently cured, researchers at the University of North Carolina…
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Expanding on the ACC expansion
After demonstrating that football is bigger than basketball at UNC (11/27/06), I will now undertake a much easier task: to show, two and a half years into the new and…
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ACC intellectualizes athletic schedule
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Under continuing criticism that it "overemphasizes athletics," the Atlantic Coast Conference has decided to add chess, bridge, crosswords and sudoku to its roster of public competitions. ACC…
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Leaving our state’s education to chance
Most of my columns to this point have been about various aspects of sport. This column is also about one of my very favorite sports: government bashing. Just like when…
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Fair or Unfair? A John Edwards Quiz
Many claims have been made concerning Chapel Hill's very own John Edwards, one of the leading prematurely announced candidates for the Democrat nomination for the presidency of the United States…
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My next job? North Carolina State House Historian
Sometimes we just don't know God's plans for our lives but we still feel like we are being prepared for something bigger. I have often wondered during my arduous two-…
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Devil’s Dictionary of college football bowls
Now that the college football bowl season is over, I would like to explain it to those many of you who are still confused. With apologies to Ambrose Bierce (the…
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How Everybody Wins: They Cheat!
Having exposed the Wake Forest University Demon Deacon football team for what they are (liars, cheats and thieves), I am now embroiled in further controversy. The vast unwashed masses which…
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Crazy: America’s Mental Health Madness
Sometimes the journalist comes to the story; sometimes the story comes to the journalist. This time the story came to Pete Earley, and it wasn't pretty. "Crazy" is one of…
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