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Mike Hendricks
Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.
Columns Archive
- When there's war, people die (5/8/20)
- Heading South (11/8/19)
- A look back (11/1/19)
- Have we all gone mad? (10/25/19)
- A trip south (9/27/19)
- Bail bonds and bounty hunters (9/6/19)
- Selective thinking (8/30/19)
- Is legalized gambling a boon or bust? (8/16/19)
- Then and now (8/9/19)
- The newest addiction (8/2/19)
- Remembering Gene O. Morris (7/26/19)
- One of those weeks (7/19/19)
- The day the earth changed (7/12/19)
- Quality Time (7/5/19)
- A town in mourning (6/21/19)
- UFO's revisited (6/14/19)
- A date with destiny (5/31/19)
- The end of an era (5/24/19)
- Addiction vs. Dependence (5/10/19)
- A little trip away (5/3/19)
- The future of work (4/26/19)
- Follow the leader (4/19/19)
- Stretching the truth (4/12/19)
- Becoming you (4/5/19)
- High crimes and misdemeanors (3/29/19)
- The art of teaching (3/22/19)
- A different kind of week (3/15/19)
- Handicapping the 2020 presidential election (3/8/19)
- The worst is yet to come (3/1/19)
- It happened in a heartbeat (or a lifetime) (2/22/19)
- Understanding the consequences (2/8/19)
- It's not what, it's why (1/25/19)
- The price of greed (1/11/19)
- Pelosi, McConnell and Trump (1/4/19)
- Post-Christmas observations (12/28/18)
- My flights aren't like Dick Trail's (12/21/18)
- A true Arkansas snowfall (12/7/18)
- My annual journey (11/30/18)
- The holiday season (11/23/18)
- Habit or addiction? (11/16/18)
- A blue wave or a blue ripple (11/9/18)
- We've been here before (11/2/18)
- Is Megan Kelly being picked on? (10/26/18)
- The Magical Mystery Tour (10/19/18)
- Live PD (10/12/18)
- Sexual harassment and a done deal? (10/5/18)
- Does attending college make students more liberal (9/21/18)
- What was Nike thinking? (9/14/18)
- Anonymous political columns (9/7/18)
- John McCain, American hero (8/31/18)
- Two ways of doing something (8/24/18)
- Fake news vs. real news (8/17/18)
- The Me2 movement (7/27/18)
- Hard to believe (7/20/18)
- Scotus and the Democrats (7/6/18)
- Home is where the heart is (6/29/18)
- A week in Arkansas (6/22/18)
- The good old days were good for everybody (6/15/18)
- Colleges are upside down (6/8/18)
- My two cents worth (6/1/18)
- The Fourth Estate (5/25/18)
- Happy Mother's Day (5/11/18)
- MCC then and now (5/4/18)
- Whoever has the microphone (4/27/18)
- Bad Moon Rising (4/13/18)
- The cop shop (4/6/18)
- Roundtrip to Denver (3/30/18)
- Was no respect justified? (3/16/18)
- What a winter (2/23/18)
- The 'Me Too' movement (2/16/18)
- The good old days (2/9/18)
- The good old days (2/9/18)
- A new breakfast option (2/2/18)
- Not the same (1/26/18)
- A change of direction (1/19/18)
- The problem with millennials, their parents (12/29/17)
- The spirit of Christmas (12/22/17)
- The miracle in Alabama (12/15/17)
- Michael's big birthday (12/8/17)
- Sexual harassment 101 (12/1/17)
- Odds and ends (11/24/17)
- Revisiting Bill Clinton (11/17/17)
- Unanswered prayers (11/10/17)
- And the beat goes on (10/27/17)
- The great conundrum for women (10/20/17)
- Football saturday (10/13/17)
- Mass murder (10/6/17)
- Anthem protests and the rule (9/29/17)
- Planet X (9/22/17)
- Affirmative action (9/15/17)
- How things have changed (9/8/17)
- A suspicious death (9/1/17)
- An interesting weekend (8/25/17)
- College then and now (8/18/17)
- Love and war (8/11/17)
- Don't ignore the advice (8/4/17)
- He's got everybody fooled (7/28/17)
- A bad vacation (7/21/17)
- Life and death (7/7/17)
- Cops don't get a fair shake (6/30/17)
- The two most dangerous words (6/23/17)
- No such thing as a free lunch (6/16/17)
- Sometimes it's more than a game (6/9/17)
- Free speech and the First Amendment (6/2/17)
- Before rules and laws (5/26/17)
- We never know for sure (5/19/17)
- Prejudice or behavior (5/12/17)
- Odds and ends (5/5/17)
- The first hundred days (4/28/17)
- The coming employment crisis (4/21/17)
- My Uncle Bill (4/14/17)
- A high school diploma is no longer enough (4/7/17)
- A new parental paradigm (3/31/17)
- An interesting journey (3/24/17)
- Safe zones for politics (3/17/17)
- Safe zones for politics (3/17/17)
- What we do with drug offenders (3/10/17)
- A role model not to follow (3/3/17)
- A science guy (2/24/17)
- The first month (2/17/17)
- A world at war (2/10/17)
- A world at war (2/10/17)
- Stereotypes of racial prejudice (2/3/17)
- The nature of the beast (1/27/17)
- Changing of the guard (1/20/17)
- A winter storm for the weekend (1/13/17)
- My Arkansas visit (1/6/17)
- Late Christmas gift ideas (12/23/16)
- An Arkansas Christmas (12/16/16)
- Strangers among us (12/9/16)
- Is honesty the best policy (12/2/16)
- Winning and losing (11/25/16)
- It's over before it starts (11/18/16)
- A crazy end to a crazy election cycle (11/11/16)
- The pros and cons of gerrymandering (11/4/16)
- Can the violence be stopped? (10/28/16)
- Conspiracy theories, Donald Trump and the presidential election (10/21/16)
- Conspiracy theories, Donald Trump and the presidential election (10/21/16)
- An interesting journey (10/14/16)
- Another road trip (10/7/16)
- Is high voter turnout good? (9/30/16)
- Problems in Tulsa (9/23/16)
- Problems in Tulsa (9/23/16)
- Kneeling during the national anthem (9/16/16)
- Our family background shapes us (9/9/16)
- Sometimes losing is winning (9/2/16)
- Good flight out, not so good back (8/19/16)
- The legacy of unions (8/12/16)
- The legacy of unions (8/12/16)
- Our faulty memories (8/5/16)
- What was he thinking? (7/29/16)
- We're at a crossroads (7/22/16)
- Choosing a life partner isn't easy (7/15/16)
- So many forks in the road (7/8/16)
- Any day is a great day to fly Boutique (7/1/16)
- With a little help from my friends (6/24/16)
- Las Vegas, then and now (6/17/16)
- How to have a great marriage (or not) (6/10/16)
- The most exciting weekend of the year (6/3/16)
- Impacting on crime (5/27/16)
- The hidden killer (5/20/16)
- Facism and Donald Trump (5/13/16)
- Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton (5/6/16)
- Doors close and doors open (4/29/16)
- The MCC honors convocation (4/22/16)
- The Police Olympics (4/8/16)
- The laziest town in Nebraska (4/1/16)
- How many friends do you have? (3/25/16)
- Too many hotel rooms, not enough restaurants (3/18/16)
- The anti-trump campaign (3/11/16)
- The Nebraska Democratic presidential caucus (3/4/16)
- The risk of dietary supplements (2/26/16)
- Should he stay or should he go? (2/19/16)
- I miss the Elks Club (2/12/16)
- The presidential campaigns (2/5/16)
- The end of a career (1/29/16)
- The worst week ever (1/22/16)
- Believing it doesn't make it true (1/8/16)
- You don't know what you think you know (12/24/15)
- Things have to change (12/18/15)
- Hoping for the best (12/11/15)
- The craziness continues (12/4/15)
- A lifetime ago (11/27/15)
- Some crimes don't deserve a plea bargain (11/20/15)
- Character's no longer important (11/13/15)
- Eating will kill you (11/6/15)
- The Republican debate, round three (10/30/15)
- The bug or the windshield (10/23/15)
- The Democratic presidential debate (10/16/15)
- Two years and counting (10/9/15)
- What's wrong with people? (10/2/15)
- The mythology of Ronald Reagan (9/18/15)
- Fourteen years later (9/11/15)
- Football's back, and other games (9/4/15)
- From the Penthouse to the Outhouse (8/21/15)
- Bad customer service (8/14/15)
- Bits 'n pieces (8/7/15)
- The nanny state (7/31/15)
- Not everybody's worthy (7/24/15)
- The Supreme Court (7/17/15)
- Eureka moments can become eureka events (7/10/15)
- Two Supreme Court decisions that defied conventional wisdom (7/2/15)
- Religion in America (6/26/15)
- The College World Series (6/19/15)
- Wars and rumors of wars (6/12/15)
- The death penalty (6/5/15)
- They don't know us and we don't know them (5/29/15)
- Texas under martial law (5/22/15)
- The good news you didn't hear (5/8/15)
- I shouldn't have done it, but I did (5/1/15)
- The thin blue line (4/17/15)
- That's what friends are for (4/10/15)
- The truth will set you free (4/3/15)
- Everything old is new again (3/20/15)
- A great place to eat (3/13/15)
- Bad things are now good things (3/6/15)
- Melting pot vs. cultural diversity (2/27/15)
- If loving you is wrong (2/20/15)
- A solution to football withdrawal (2/13/15)
- When first we practice to deceive (2/6/15)
- Sometimes stranger than fiction (1/30/15)
- Three minutes to doomsday (1/23/15)
- I'm not a scientist ... (1/16/15)
- Cancer and bad luck (1/9/15)
- Considering my options (1/2/15)
- One with the universe (12/26/14)
- Fleetwood Mac and more (12/19/14)
- Protest is protected; rioting is not (12/12/14)
- Nebraska hires Pelini's alter ego (12/5/14)
- Are the skies safe? (11/21/14)
- The right to die (11/14/14)
- Election results not surprising (11/7/14)
- Are voter ID laws partisan? (10/31/14)
- We should be careful of machines (10/24/14)
- Finish what you start (10/17/14)
- One year later (10/10/14)
- Who's the enemy? (10/3/14)
- What does domestic violence look like? (9/26/14)
- A competitive governor's race? (9/19/14)
- Goodbye, my friend (9/12/14)
- Natural selection (8/29/14)
- The Ferguson fiasco (8/22/14)
- A typical (for me) trip to Denver (8/8/14)
- Militarizing the police (8/1/14)
- We're not in charge (7/25/14)
- A really bad day (7/18/14)
- Time to reconsider the drinking age (6/27/14)
- Some things you may not know (6/20/14)
- The choices we make (6/13/14)
- It's time to rethink funerals (6/6/14)
- We're not all the same (5/30/14)
- It's hard to get there from here (5/23/14)
- Racism is alive and well in America (5/9/14)
- An election strategy that wasn't used (5/2/14)
- A law that must be enforced and prosecuted (4/25/14)
- Competition for good jobs still tough (4/18/14)
- An election and a correction (4/11/14)
- Surviving your hospital stay (4/4/14)
- What to do about bullying (3/28/14)
- Sometimes we make mistakes (3/21/14)
- The crisis for blacks continues (3/14/14)
- America's retirement crisis (2/28/14)
- Las Vegas and the Mob (2/21/14)
- The folly of Valentine's Day (2/14/14)
- America's biggest party (2/7/14)
- Storms and rumors of storms (1/31/14)
- Good guys vs. bad guys (1/17/14)
- Stranded in Denver (1/10/14)
- Using my sixth sense (1/3/14)
- Flying down to Bentonville (12/27/13)
- It's not about free speech (12/20/13)
- Civil discourse (12/13/13)
- Paying for my sins (12/6/13)
- The heartache of the holidays (11/29/13)
- A thousand days (11/22/13)
- Ignorance is bliss (11/15/13)
- Is immortality achievable? (11/8/13)
- The rest of the story (11/1/13)
- Actions have consequences (10/25/13)
- A close call (10/18/13)
- Never the full story (10/4/13)
- Peaceful and serene (9/27/13)
- Pick a coin; any coin (9/20/13)
- To intervene or not (9/13/13)
- The real purpose of education (9/6/13)
- When golf is more than a game (8/30/13)
- The folly of campaign speeches (8/23/13)
- Edited for content (8/16/13)
- The importance of family (8/9/13)
- Nothing's changed but the names (8/2/13)
- Some different things (7/26/13)
- How the mass media plays us (7/19/13)
- The pros and cons of plea bargaining (7/12/13)
- Ron Crowe (7/5/13)
- Inside the shadow of our minds (6/28/13)
- Support of affirmative action continues to decline (6/14/13)
- The love we lost (6/7/13)
- You can't serve two masters (5/31/13)
- We're not always right (5/24/13)
- Sliding toward Prohibition ... again (5/17/13)
- The dark side of social medial (5/10/13)
- Music is the doctor of my soul (5/3/13)
- Fantasizing about Powerball (4/26/13)
- Honored and privileged (4/19/13)
- A special anniversary (4/12/13)
- Two who reached for the stars and beyond (4/5/13)
- The whole truth and nothing but the truth (3/29/13)
- Warrior or war-monger (3/22/13)
- The have lots, the have some and the have little (3/15/13)
- A melancholy trip (3/8/13)
- Bits and pieces (3/1/13)
- The forecasters got it half right (2/22/13)
- How old is too old? (2/15/13)
- The rich get richer in college football (2/8/13)
- The burning bed (2/1/13)
- The rest of the story (1/25/13)
- My Christmas vacation (1/11/13)
- Saying good by to an old friend (1/4/13)
- The end of the world ... again (12/21/12)
- A white Christmas and beyond (12/14/12)
- The bigger they are, the harder they fall (12/7/12)
- My last column ... almost (11/30/12)
- Thoughts about Thanksgiving (11/23/12)
- A nation divided? (11/16/12)
- The numbers behind the numbers (11/9/12)
- The doctor is out (10/26/12)
- Here comes the judge (10/19/12)
- Proof of heaven ... or not (10/12/12)
- Life is good (mostly) (10/5/12)
- He wasn't what I expected (9/28/12)
- Bob Kerrey in McCook today (9/21/12)
- How Boys State affected me (9/14/12)
- Getting off the schneid (9/7/12)
- Rebirth is always good (8/31/12)
- The end and the beginning (8/24/12)
- The good, the bad and the disappointing (8/17/12)
- Polygamous and polyamorist relationships (8/3/12)
- The Joe Pa conundrum (7/27/12)
- Another mass murder (7/20/12)
- The unemployment crisis (7/13/12)
- Winning is everything (7/6/12)
- Obama's health care bill is law, for now (6/29/12)
- The good, the bad and the ugly (6/22/12)
- Too many heroes (6/15/12)
- The perfect marriage: Part Two (6/8/12)
- The perfect marriage (6/1/12)
- Equal opportunity for all (5/25/12)
- Pomp and Circumstance (5/18/12)
- Anonymity strikes again (5/11/12)
- The roots of racism (5/4/12)
- Friday night lights (4/27/12)
- Two giants of rock 'n' roll leave us behind (4/20/12)
- The most important job in the world (4/13/12)
- It's not always how it seems (3/30/12)
- Flying the friendly skies (3/23/12)
- The new DSM and what it means to you (3/16/12)
- Living alone isn't what it used to be (3/9/12)
- The winter of our discontent (3/2/12)
- You do the math (2/24/12)
- Things you might want to know (2/17/12)
- Looking a gift horse in the mouth (2/10/12)
- A lot, a little, or none (2/3/12)
- Health, hope and healing (1/27/12)
- From stability to who knows what (1/20/12)
- The week in review (1/6/12)
- Three things that will change human relationships (12/30/11)
- A strange but enjoyable trip (12/23/11)
- Far too many addictions (12/9/11)
- Stupid is as stupid does (12/2/11)
- A melancholy Thanksgiving (11/25/11)
- Garbage in, garbage out (11/18/11)
- Another 'good-guy' scandal (11/11/11)
- A revolution's going on (11/4/11)
- Sissies and tomboys (10/28/11)
- Why we are the way we are (10/21/11)
- A birthday, TJ's Family Fun Center and a standoff (10/14/11)
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month (10/7/11)
- Summer's drawing to a close (9/30/11)
- Identity theft (9/23/11)
- The folly of moving violations (9/16/11)
- One is the loneliest number (9/2/11)
- They're all the same (8/19/11)
- A bad week for many (8/12/11)
- Synchronicity (8/5/11)
- We only come around once (7/29/11)
- You don't know your neighbor (7/22/11)
- What's it all about? (7/15/11)
- The Casey Anthony verdict (7/8/11)
- A couple of things (7/1/11)
- A very peculiar thing (6/24/11)
- Signs of testosterone overload (6/17/11)
- Farewell to a good friend (6/10/11)
- The best day of the year (6/3/11)
- A maligned profession (5/27/11)
- When addictions aren't addictions (5/20/11)
- A life-changing weekend for many (5/13/11)
- Seal Team Six (5/6/11)
- Liar, liar, pants on fire (4/29/11)
- An amazing weather day (4/15/11)
- Be careful who you trust (4/8/11)
- Dumb, stupid or both? (4/1/11)
- The good guys and the bad guys (3/25/11)
- Earthquakes and tsunamis (3/18/11)
- Is cryonics for you? (3/11/11)
- Remembering my heritage (3/4/11)
- When it's man vs. the computer, the computer usually wins (2/25/11)
- Does tiger parenting work? (2/18/11)
- Jack Nicholson and me (2/11/11)
- A Rotarian again (2/4/11)
- A rush to judgment (1/28/11)
- What's wrong with our schools? (1/21/11)
- The tragedy in Arizona could happen anywhere (1/14/11)
- Bo Pelini and the end of the world (1/7/11)
- A different kind of Christmas (1/3/11)
- What would the world be like without Santa Claus (12/17/10)
- A conversation with my ex (12/10/10)
- New street signs and more (12/3/10)
- Melancholy holidays for many (11/26/10)
- The police and the public (11/19/10)
- And then there was you (11/12/10)
- The mid-term elections (11/5/10)
- Vote intelligently (10/29/10)
- Power, influence, control and ego (10/22/10)
- Domestic violence awareness month (10/15/10)
- A Facebook birthday (10/8/10)
- A chink in the armor of global warming (10/1/10)
- Too many laws (9/24/10)
- The pleasure principle (9/17/10)
- The big lie (9/10/10)
- It is what we say it is (9/3/10)
- Leave it all on the field (8/27/10)
- You got me in trouble (8/20/10)
- Why I dropped out (8/13/10)
- How to win the lottery (8/6/10)
- Why today's kids are fat (7/30/10)
- A rock 'n roll reunion (7/23/10)
- Addicted to love (7/16/10)
- Find something you enjoy (7/9/10)
- Bison 2010 this weekend (7/2/10)
- Morning Joe and Gen. Stanley McChrystal (6/25/10)
- Life is not a catchy little phrase (6/18/10)
- Privacy and social networking (6/11/10)
- The John Mullen Pro-Am and Ron Coleman Horse Race (6/4/10)
- The men and women in blue (5/28/10)
- Our biggest regret (5/21/10)
- Reward the good, fire the bad (5/14/10)
- Good luck, graduates; some think you'll need it (5/7/10)
- Thinking about different things (4/30/10)
- Why do we settle for less? (4/23/10)
- The marvels of technology (4/16/10)
- Tiger's back (4/9/10)
- Customer service (4/2/10)
- An interesting journey (3/26/10)
- Will gets married (3/19/10)
- The John Daly saga (3/12/10)
- Wasted days and wasted nights (3/5/10)
- The way we were (2/26/10)
- Wallismarsh -- Part II (2/19/10)
- Wallismarsh (2/12/10)
- Drugs and doctors (2/5/10)
- The art of the deal (1/29/10)
- Pants on the ground (1/22/10)
- Much ado about nothing (1/15/10)
- Come out and show your face (1/8/10)
- They're all patriots (12/31/09)
- Triumph and tragedy (12/24/09)
- When you stray, you pay (12/18/09)
- Two parties, different rules (12/11/09)
- No Mike at Night (12/4/09)
- The lack of self-respect (11/27/09)
- The Derail Bar and Grill (11/20/09)
- The face of America is changing (11/13/09)
- Our promises are our vows (11/6/09)
- Domestic Abuse Awareness Month (10/30/09)
- The herd mentality (10/23/09)
- A good Samaritan (10/16/09)
- Death (10/9/09)
- Be careful what you wish for (10/2/09)
- The way things would have been (9/25/09)
- Through with politics for a while (9/18/09)
- The oil capital of the world (9/11/09)
- I can't make you love me, if you don't (9/4/09)
- The amazing Facebook (8/28/09)
- It's that time of year again (8/21/09)
- A better way to watch TV (8/7/09)
- The seminal events of our life (7/31/09)
- Winning is everything (7/24/09)
- Be careful what you wish for (7/17/09)
- Another excellent adventure, Part III (7/10/09)
- Another excellent adventure II (6/26/09)
- Another excellent adventure (6/19/09)
- The political conundrum (6/12/09)
- John Mullen Pro Am is more than just a golf tournament (6/5/09)
- The demons within us (5/29/09)
- Sometimes friends get it wrong (5/22/09)
- The professor responds (5/15/09)
- Education, income and job security (5/8/09)
- Grading the professor (5/5/09)
- Golf season has officially started (5/1/09)
- The culture war continues (4/24/09)
- What's happening to religion? (4/17/09)
- Stuck in a snowdrift (4/10/09)
- After the love has gone (4/3/09)
- The electric chair debate (3/27/09)
- The greatest compliment a man gan get (3/20/09)
- In favor of merit pay (3/13/09)
- The choices we make change our lives forever (3/6/09)
- The dream weaver (2/27/09)
- My friend Jerry Porter (2/20/09)
- Dec. 21, 2012, The End of Days (2/13/09)
- A checklist for marriage (2/6/09)
- Against the Washington bailout (1/30/09)
- A new morning in America (1/23/09)
- I'll tell you what I would have done (1/17/09)
- The sociology of love and relationships (1/10/09)
- People need people (1/3/09)