Just a decade ago, telephone answering machines were the butt of jokes, the object of scorn. Widely available since the late 1970s, they were just a blip on the consumer scene in the early ’80s. As ...

Answering machines were still something new on the scene in 1984. And this one, it could be said, changed the course of Georgia politics. And is still doing so. The electronic gizmo belonged to Julian ...

Note to readers: Much of what follows was drawn from a column first published in 2015: The case can be made that John Lewis’ 33-year career in Congress has its roots in an ill-conceived attempt at ...

For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one ...

If there's one thing Mark Craig never did, it was hit "erase" on his answering machine. "What's an answering machine," you ask? Well, back in the olden days of the nineteen-hundred-and-eighties, they ...

Saturday, May 28 marks the 18th anniversary of the day that Saturday Night Live star and comedy legend Phil Hartman was murdered in his sleep by his wife, Brynn Omdahl. So many years later and just ...

There are cringe-worthy scenes, and then there are scenes that make you so uncomfortable that you immediately wish you were literally anywhere else doing literally anything else. Such is true of the ...