Just Not Said

President Obama recently said, in reference to the fact that his health care proposal would force many seniors out of their Medicare Advanta...

About eight years ago. I was doing a fly set in the local YMCA pool. After I'd done a few repeats, a guy holding a baby in the shallo...

Whenever you see photos of the young men killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, it's hard not to react by thinking, how tragic for these fine yo...

(At left, Jesus Ortiz, Kevin Taveras, Stalin Felipe, and Rondell Edwards; above, Danmell Ndonye) When I first read about the September 13th ...

Manson family member Susan Atkins died Thursday of brain cancer at the California Central Women's Facility in Chowchilla. She was 61. Sh...

Music, as Tolstoy said, is the shorthand of emotion. Great music can transport you. It can make you feel sad, or romantic, or joyful, or nos...

....one of the most egregious is that their front line operatives were stupid enough to buy this guy's pimp act. James O'Keefe, abov...

(Above, Andrew Cuomo, New York State Attorney General; on left, Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, villain in The God...

One of my deepest, darkest secrets is that I read the wedding section of the NY Times every Sunday. (Please don't tell anyone.) It'...

An article on Yahoo this morning stated that his coworkers called Raymond Clark III, the suspected murderer of Annie Le, a "control fre...

(Kathy Griffin pretending to fall drunkenly out of her limo) If you asked me who the funniest male comedian I ever heard was, I'd h...

One of the pleasures of the internet is reading the comments that follow online articles. These are generally much more honest than the arti...

Earlier this week a friend asked me (and a lot of other people) to "sponsor" him in a half-Ironman Triathlon, a fundraiser for mel...

The latest report on Caster Semenya is that the gender tests indicate that she is a hermaphrodite. Although a visual inspection reveals her ...

Since the early part of this decade, it's often been said that there was an upsurge in patriotism after 9/11. But what exactly does patr...

Any quoting jag would be incomplete without Kinky Friedman, the fellow above who bears a passing resemblance to Richard Boone. Friedman firs...

After a lifetime (my daughter's) of being treated cavalierly by a supercilious child, I have come to the following (somewhat self-justif...

An article (written by me) about my father and me (on page 2): http://www.swimnem.org/news/Newsletter_709.pdf NEM story

Barack Obama made a lot of promises during his campaign and it would be unreasonable to hold him to all of them. Some he hasn't gotten ...

You've probably heard a lot of cliches about how time is so precious, you should live each day as if it's your last; life is so shor...