I've seen a lot of embarassing things in my lifetime...but how would you like to be one of the wonderful citizens of the city of Toronto. Mayor Rob Ford continues to feed the evening news with wonderful sound bites that Saturday Night Live must struggle with to actually find something funnier than the real thing. Again, my guess is it's only funn …
I don't mean this to be argumentative (not that I ever would, lol) but I hear continuously about the "Core Curriculum" controversy that is exploding throughout the social media world. I have to admit that I don't have an opinion on it and I really don't understnad it. My son is in 6th grade, his first year in Middle School, and I don't notice any …
I heard Chuck Schumer on the radio today. This is not going to be a partisan attack on him (or an attack on him of any kind), as I believe that regardless of your political ideology, many could relate to his feelings on an emotional level. He made a statement pertaining to the (paraphrased) immorality of the premium increases for flood insurance …
Most people have heard about the Running Back Adrian Petersen's two year old son who was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend. At least two different sports columnists wrote pieces decrying Petersen's personality and lifestyle choices for having multiple children with different mothers without being involved in their lives. Both or these rep …
I turned on Saturday Night the previous week the way one looks at a car accident as they cruise by in traffic. After the VMA's I figured blowing up would be too obvious and PR rehab was the prescription, but whay I got was a surprise. Miley Cyrus was the host AND musical guest (I wonder why?). The humor was only mildly self-deprecating, less …
A little while back our firm needed a place for a series of presentations in Manhattan. I reached out to the loyal Gotham network and I was introduced to Ashley Jurgensen. Ashley is the owner of a fantastic facility called Top of The Garden Event Space. While I assumed that the company name referred to its proximity, I didn't realize the tru …
Here is a test for everyone. The condemnation of the federal government right now is pretty universal throughout the country. Nitwits, tools, terrorists, arsonists, cowards, bullies are only the types of names that are fit for print here in our family-friendly blog. There are much worse being distributed in other venues. I want to pose a tes …
The NCAA just pulled back on some of the punishments it imposed on Penn St University resulting from the Jerry Sanduskey scandal. Already, there are opinions forming on both sides. Some say reducing the sanctions are wroong, others have gone so far as to say that the sanctions were overly inflicting and that the roll-back should actually come wit …
Every year coaching hockey we have a draft. Each team is allowed to protect 5 kids from year-to-year, as they enter the division at 14 and leave at 17. It is always a big challenge dealing with the kids that go back into the draft, particularly when we are not able to get them back on my team. Last year, the last kid picked in the draft absolute …
The other day I was picking up breakfast from the deli for my family. I grabbed a Nestle vanilla milk for my son and waited for my order. The counter person packed my order, I paid and then I grabbed my bag and the Nestle chocalate milk on the counter and left. On the way home, I looked down and noticed that I must have grabbed someone else's ch …
OK, so Scraps is now gone all night Sat, all day Sunday (I call but few places are open) and now Monday morning I start making calls again. The Islip town shelter gives me the name and number of a young woman who picked up a dog of similar description late Sat. and I call the woman around 10am. She grills me a bit on describing the dog and asks m …
As we wrapped up our day over a beer, I remarked to my wife, "We were victims of not-for-profit, psychopathic, serial dognappers!" Ironically, I had just recently commented on Fred's blog about our young dog that we had "rescued" after he had lost his home in a fire. I was not dying to get a second dog, but the rescue dog group had a table at my …
Last Thursday, after having numerous softball games cancelled for rain this season, we were pumped to play our final regular season game on the schedule. The forecast was for possible showers all day and evening. I trepidaciously took my son to the Mets game (courtesy of Vincent Russo & Associates, Elder Law Specialists - thanks again) and we …
Perhaps you have felt it in the past, but just not realized what it was or how severely it has affected you and the others around you. NASA has determined that within the next several months, the Sun's magnetic field will 'flip'. In fact, the process has already begun as the North Pole of the Sun flipped pre-maturely last year, leaving the Sun …
Alex Rodriguez was always disliked, even often called 'Lightning Rod' for not being able to avoid trouble. But the level of hatred is reaching nuclear proportions...and it's just getting started. Let me assure everyone that I am neither defending A-Rod, nor producing any confusion as to his guilt or need for punishment, This is simply a mocking …
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