• An important question: how stupid is Rod Blagojevich? Like Paris Hilton about 1 year ago, he seems to be everywhere – plugging his book, “Celebrity Apprentice.” And now he’s made a comment (and apologized for it) for saying that he (Blagojevich) was “blacker than (President Barack) Obama.” Of course, this is pretty stupid since […]

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A whole lot of little stories and random thoughts this time around: • Congratulations to Andre Dawson on his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. It was richly deserved of a great player who did it all: hit for power; hit for average; played the field well, had a great arm, and was an […]

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It this the Wild West? That was my thought when I saw that police are investigating Washington Wizards’ stars Gilbert Arenas and teammate Javaris Crittenton allegedly drew guns on each other during a locker-room argument over a gambling debt. The story at first was bad enough when it was reported that Arenas brought unloaded guns […]

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As you may know, I used to work for one of the federal banking regulators. I don’t want to go into which one because this will be a fairly inflammatory piece. Anyway, like most bureaucracies, it is headed by people whose sole ability has been to either hook themselves to a supervisor who likes them, […]

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As a result of the young ages of the Indignant Children, I have to tutor them on certain things, onw of them being mathematics. The wife and I are working with them on their letters and numbers. And I am reminded that when one starts counting, you begin with the number 1. You don’t start […]

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• It is very sad to hear of the silly death of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry. Apparently, during a fight with his fiancée, she drove off in a pickup truck. The 26-year-old Henry jumped in the cab of the truck, but fell out of the truck. He was found on a residential road […]

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Sometimes I look at people on the commuter train, around my neighborhood, at sports events, and think how blissfully ignorant these people are. They think they have the world by the short hairs and it would take an alarming event to jar them from their stupor. Such a thing happened to one Alexi Dohnal. She […]

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