The NFL season starts tonight with the Giants and Cowboys playing one night early as to not compete with President Obama’s Democratic nomination speech. Unfortunately, the game, and all games this coming weekend, will be played without the regular officials. They are being locked out by the league because the league and the union cannot […]

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I didn’t have an opportunity to write on this, but better late than never. Former Notre Dame running back and commentator Allen Pinkett was suspended without pay for last week’s game in Dublin versus Navy for saying on an interview with WSCR-AM of Chicago: “I’ve always felt like, to have a successful team, you have […]

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There were studies several years ago that showed that the psychology of most corporate CEOs showed sociopathic tendencies, meaning lacking a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. Most of them would love to be able to make money without employees (too expensive, and you have to deal with their issues, problems, etc.) or customers […]

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There was a big story this week about the supposed “girlfriend auditions” that were held by Scientology for the right to date/marry Tom Cruise. The cult is denying it; but “Crash’s” director Paul Haggis, who was a member for 35 years but left due to disillusionment, confirmed the story. Maybe they have a new way […]

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Lost in all the coverage of Ann Romney, Gov. Chris Christie, and Hurricane Isaac, there was a very disturbing event on the floor of the first day of the Republican National Convention. Two attendees were thrown out of the convention after throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, “this is how we feed […]

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Lance Armstrong gained his fame for never quitting – not against testicular cancer, not against the bike, and not in the mountains of the Tour de France. But, Armstrong is giving up this fight, some say the biggest of all, by choosing not to pursue arbitration in the drug case brought against him by the […]

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A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture on the MF Global scandal. For those of you who are unaware of it MF Global was a futures commission merchant, which is supposed to act as a conduit for investors to participate in the futures markets. Futures are hedge contracts established originally to protect farmers and […]

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