When my sister asked me if I was going to church for Christmas, I immediately said “no” There was a time in my life when the question would not have been asked because I would just go. I think the Catholic church was built on the expectation that people follow rules instead of questioning them. [...]

So far, Howard Dean is the only politician willing to speak up and call out Obama and the Democrats for being wimps. He is calling for the Dems to scrap the current healthcare plan that appears to do nothing but insure that insurance companies get richer. Sure they can argue that 30 million people will [...]

The day my kid got a "snuggie" for his birthday

So I was sitting in 105 degrees of heat taking a Bikram yoga class, when it hit me. The yoga instructor could have been a horse race announcer in another time.He spoke in a pace and at a speed that sounded very similar to the guy calling the races at the track. So as he [...]

I find it amusing that there is so much speculation about who will be the “next” Oprah. This always strikes me as odd because Oprah was not someone anyone would have initially picked to be Oprah. So if you really want to pick the next Oprah, find someone who is a relative unknown, but show [...]

Grafiti artists and spelling-waz up widat?

What's up Salihi? And hey Tiger, the cat got your tongue? What a week!

Would Jesus be good enough for Notre Dame? Doubtfu

They are masters of seducing you into thinking they don't support what these celebrities do. In fact,it appears they and their band of commentators want you to believe they are the moral authority on what is acceptable behavior. H

two bikes and one wet vac got stolen. I was trying to explain this to my kid today. I told him there are some people who do bad things. My nearly 8 year old responded, "I do bad things."

Why do they do it? How do they think of these things to do? What would make a man want to pull a bus by his ears? Ears were meant for hearing not for pulling bus’ -right? What Guiness  World record would you like to break?
Posted in essays Tagged: ears and buss', guiness book [...]

I watched people collide into one another because they were busy reading their blackberries.

the longer the story drags on, the more it's perfect for a book, interviews, tv movie etc. Soon the dad will be

Where will Fox news be then? Will they be providing a healthcare option for citizens or states that reject the option?

And even if it warms your heart to know the CEO of United Healthcare, Humana, Aetna, Magellan, and so on can have a new jaguar,

I’ve heard people privately express annoyance that the LGBT community is pushing Obama to follow through on his promise of eliminating “don’t ask don’t tell. I guess the frustration is that many people think the President has more important issues to confront like healthcare, the economy, and war. It is easy to get swayed into [...]

I like Anderson Cooper. However I didn’t like his coverage of violence in Chicago. He seemed to be on a mission to create the impression that Chicago is nothing but a violent city.
As Eric Holder said, this is not Chicago’s problem, this is an American problem. When you combine poverty, low income, poor housing and [...]

Despite the Dream Team of Barack, Michelle, and Oprah, Chicago couldn't make it out of the first round. So let the pundits have their fun. Many will question Obama for leaving Washington and not coming home with Olympic gold

It’s odd how things work out sometimes. McKenzie Phillips comes out with an honest, painful, tragic story of being sexually abused by her father when she was 13. And then Hollywood stands up to deliver their support for Roman Polanski, a man who drugged, raped, and traumatized at 13 year old. It’s as if she [...]

I predict President Obama’s intervention into New York politics will backfire because he asked another African American politician to not run again. I guarantee people will see it as him treating another African American differently than he would a white candidate. It was a bad move.Governor Patterson may be perceived as a joke in some [...]