I was listening to the radio today (KYW1060 news radio, as usual), and a story came on about a peaceful demonstration that took place yesterday at Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia called "Tokin' Back the Wall." Originally, the gathering was meant to protest a ban the city had put in place on people sitting on the … Continue reading Things I Have No Idea How to Do
Well the big day has finally arrived. Donald J. Trump is the 45th President of the United States. He was certainly not the person I was hoping would become President, having openly noted my support for Hillary Clinton. But he won the requisite number of electoral votes, and he is now our President. I've always felt … Continue reading I Wish You the Best, Mr. President
OK class, let's break the word down: Centennial = 100 years Septcentennial = seven * 100 years = 700 years Semiseptcentennial = one-half of 700 years = 350 years Demisemiseptcentennial = one-half of 350 years = 175 years That's how old Villanova University is this year, and tonight was the opening night of a series … Continue reading It’s Demisemiseptcentennial Time!!
FiveThirtyEight, sometimes referred to as 538, is a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging. The website, which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college, was founded on March 7, 2008, as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver. … Continue reading Who Would Have Thought? NFL Referees Are Human After All
The results of a recent Harris Poll of more than 1,000 U.S. adults ages 18+ offer a startling, and depressing, look at their attitudes towards the U.S. healthcare system. Here are some of the statistics: 9% of the respondents believe pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies put patients over profits 16% of the respondents believe health insurance … Continue reading Profits before Patients??!!
I should be a paid spokesman for the web site Nextdoor. This is my third post about the community building web site. The first time I wrote about Nextdoor it was part of a post about the Power of Community; the second time I talked about how Nextdoor had enabled two neighbors, strangers at first, to … Continue reading Nextdoor to the Rescue Again
This is the fourth in a series of blogs in which I plan to go through and “musically annotate” Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, “Born to Run”. This involves going through the book page by page and listing the artists, and when possible, providing a YouTube video of the artists and songs that Bruce mentions as among his … Continue reading A Musical Annotation of Bruce Springsteen’s Autobiography – Born to Run, Part 4
I should have known it would involve swimming. One of my college roommates and fellow swimmer is now the coach of the men's swim team at Brown University. As luck would have it, his team was in town this weekend for a tri-meet against Penn and Harvard. I thought it was the perfect excuse to … Continue reading I’ve Discovered the Fountain of Youth
It was a word that did it. Libtard. A person I have never met, but who was a friend of a friend, had sent me a Facebook friend request a couple of years ago. Since he was a fellow former swimmer, I thought, sure, why not. Well for the past couple of years, any time … Continue reading My First Time to Block Someone on Facebook
A New York man, after being arrested for a possible DWI, became a bit belligerent back at the police station. He began calling the officer an a**hole, and told him that he was ruining his family. He refused to have his fingerprints and mug shot taken, concerned that the story of his arrest and his mug … Continue reading OK, I Admit It, I’ve Done Something Similar to These People
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