Archive | May, 2013

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. To millions of immigrants, these words meant something.  I’m sure they meant something to my father who arrived at Ellis […]

Memorial Day 2013

Today, while we’re enjoying the start of summer and backyard bar-b-ques and time with our families, let’s not forgot those fallen heroes who have died for our freedom. “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.  And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right me.”  […]

SANFORD AND WEINER – I KNEW THEY’D BE BACK

When both of these guys left public office a few years back, like cockroaches who’ll survive nuclear war, I knew we hadn’t seen the last of them.  I was right.  Former Republican Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina was just elected by a landslide to his old House of Representatives seat and Democrat Anthony Weiner, […]

ALCOHOL, SEX AND CYBERSPACE = SOCIOPATHIC BEHAVIOR

Three teenagers are facing charges of sexual battery, dissemination of child pornography and possession of child pornography in connection with their assault on 15-year old, Audrie Potts. First of all, I hate that the media refers to these savages as “16-year old boys.”  When you turn 13, you’re a teenager; you’re no longer a “boy.” […]

IS THIS COUNTRY GOING NUTS OR WHAT?

I don’t know if we’re turning into a bunch of spineless, whiny, wussies or if we’re just going nuts.  This endless quest to be politically correct in all areas of our lives is just plain crazy. Take for example this pathological need to change how we normally speak.  The University of North Carolina will no […]

B-I-N-G-O: EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN

When I read an article a couple of weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “How Do you Spell Hipster?  It Could Be B-I-N-G-O,” I laughed out loud. Why?  Because even though I was a closet bingo player in my youth, I believed the perception people had of bingo enthusiasts back then was that […]