I have sleep apnea. I didn’t think that I did because I never consciously woke up. I knew that I snored like a 747 at take-off which kept The Indignant Wife and Children out of my bedroom (a mixed blessing). But after spending a week in the same room in Disney World last February, my […]

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While the sale of the cubs is not final, it is obvious that The Tribune Company still owns the underachieving ballclub. Why else would the online Tribune report the following banal situation. A white flag with a blue “W,” flown when the Cubs win, and is a bone of hatred for White Sox fans, was […]

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I regularly go to bookstores and I also visit online bookseller Amazon, and I have been seeing one continuous, disturbing trend over the past few months: almost all the time, “Liberty and Tyranny” by Mark R. Levin has been at the top of the non-fiction best seller lists on The New York Times and on […]

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Swim club, Huntington I didn’t get around to this at the end of June/early July when swimming privileges for about 65 children from a Philadelphia area day care center were revoked after one visit to a predominantly white swim club despite the center having paid for it. Some black and Hispanic children said white club […]

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Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Ernest Hemingway is laughing his ass off. Why? Because there are morons who still participate in Pamplona, Spain’s annual running of the bulls. Usually, some slow poke just gets gored by a bull, or suffers scrapes and bruises from the bulls or from one of the other idiot runners as […]

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I think that everyone is shocked over the early death of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, apparently murdered by his 20-year-old mistress who then committed suicide. It’s the age old scenario: a man married for a long time with lots of kids, is bored with his marriage, finds some young woman, and sets her up […]

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I have tried very hard to avoid much of the hoopla over the life, death, and the world’s reaction to Michael Jackson. It has been difficult with wall-to-wall media coverage by the “straight” media like newspapers and magazines, along with the tabloids and television networks. And, I wasn’t particularly sad about it other than the […]

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