Usually around this time of the year I am excited about rolling into the fun of the fall, and the awesomeness of the Holiday Season in NYC. We already purchased Dev's Halloween costume, and we're trying to decide on which orchard we will be picking apples and pumpkins at this year. Fall really is [...]
These days it been?fashionable to say things like "now all people will be judged by the content of their character" and "America has changed forever." I'll buy the latter argument because it's?ambiguous enough to read anything you want into it. The former, however, I have laid?no false?claims to. In my own experience I still get [...]
I'm no Barack Obama, I know that very well. I find managing the finances of the school work at challenging enough. I couldn't imagine running any country much less?this country.?That said, I graciously?state with the utmost humility that?we both face similar challenges. Of course?the challenges I speak of are those of race in the United [...]
At one point having a car made sense. I live in the boondocks as compared to some of my friends, and I have a child. With gas prices through the roof and summer road tripping a far of dream I'm not sure I should own a car. This is New York after all, the home [...]
There was a long moment in my life when I was certain I was going to run for City Council in my district here in New York. I decided against it once I realized that I like straight talk and transparency, and therefore could never be a politician. Nowadays I try to fight for strengthening [...]
"Eliot Spitzer is a bad man." That's what Dev told to us in the car today. His words are proof that EVERYONE knows what has gone down in the Empire State. The gone New York governor spoke at my college graduation before he became governor and at the time the dude had swagger. You could [...]
Lately there seems to be no good news. Either it's celebrities doing bad things to themselves or others, or it's much worse. You know its bad when your four year old son, who reads better than he should, is upset about explosions in midtown and a bridge collapse. We can turn off the news on [...]
What kind of world are our children really inheriting? One full of promise, or one full, well, crap? I literally live a five minute drive, without traffic, from JFK International Airport in New York City. (For those of you that don't know JFK was the target of a terror plot that was luckily thwarted by [...]
Imus was fired from CBS Radio (earlier than expected) on the heels of MSNBC's decision to drop him, and the loss of millions in advertising dollars. I can't say that I will lose any sleep over his termination. But as Tom suggests in his comment below, most of us can't say those kind of despicable [...]
(The "explicative" is hos, by the way, I just didn't want to put it in the title.) These were the words uttered by the famous-for-being-mean radio legend Don Imus in reference to Rutgers University's ladies b-ball squad. I'm going to avoid getting into a rant over this guy's ignorance. I'm not going to call for [...]
