I admit to looking at Sports Illustrated’s website SI.com frequently and I often read some of the lead stories. Some time ago, the writers put together a list of “25 Things They (the writers) Miss” in sports. I read the initial story, which was interesting, but today they published “25 More Things They Miss” and […]

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Here’s yet another reason to fear for the intelligence of the American public. No, not the health care debate or the “birthers.” I’m talking about the $58 million that “G.I. Joe – The Rise of Cobra” took in last weekend. Yes, I know that there were no recent (within 2 weeks anyway) action blockbusters to […]

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I have been busy giving my opinion through my own e-mail account. I sent the e-mail below to Ms. Julia Keller, cultural editor/writer for the Chicago Tribune. On Sunday, she wrote an articale where she defended the fact that she enjoys graphic novels (aka comics) to her high brow friends and was taking a beating […]

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• As Ryan O’Neal’s drug addict son calls him a self-centered jerk, one would ordinarily chalk that up to a family squabble. That is until he reportedly hit on his own daughter Tatum (knowingly? Unknowingly?) at his late girlfriend/wife Farrah Fawcett’s funeral. Creepy? No question. • To all “Birthers” – why don’t you just stop […]

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If there is one man in the world who will never be a finalist in any Father of the Year contest, it will be Joe Jackson. The patriarch of the Jackson family, he practiced his children relentlessly; beat them with belts at the very least, and terrorized the kids to fame and fortune. He 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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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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