Thursday, July 27, 2006
Summer comfort
It's been one helluva summer so far. Heat wave after heat wave in the Northeast. Global warming or just summer weather? Who the hell knows. I love when the weather forecaster tells you: "It's gonna be in the 90s in the city but in the 80s at the Shore where you can get cooled off." Are...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Watch out for the Spanish, uh, Hispanics, or somebody
While visiting my barber, I met this character who predicted that Spanish would be the number one language throughout the world and, of course, in this country with English a poor second. He complained that too many stations on cable TV were in Spanish (my system has more than 200 channels - three...
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Friday, July 21, 2006
'No' to saving lives
It's despicable that the Great White Father in Washington used his first veto to nix a stem cell bill that could conceivable have found cures for major diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes, cancer...name it, it could have been done. On the other hand, he promises to pass a bill that would...
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Saturday, July 15, 2006
Could it lead to World War III?
Much of the world hates America because we’re in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re invaders, we’re conquerors, etc., etc. But now there are those who want us to stick our noses into the Israeli-Lebanon mess. None of this makes sense. On the one hand, we were attacked on 9/11 and we retaliated, and our...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
We Will Not Forget
Well, the budget was passed in N.J. and the state shutdown was ended and Corzine got his pound of flesh in the form of a higher sales tax and Assembly Speaker Roberts showed he had balls, too. The only thing is both children used the state workers and the people of N.J. as pawns until they got what...
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Sunday, July 2, 2006
King Jon and his budget
Over the years I’ve dealt with politicians — both personally and as an editor — I have always been amazed at how child-like they can be. Most of them figuratively will hold their breath until they can get what they want. Just about all of them will act like toddlers in a sandbox…mine is bigger than...
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Saturday, July 1, 2006
Baby Booming
For the past several years drug store chains have been going through a tremendous growth spurt, buying one another out, closing redundant stores, and opening new, larger units at a fantastic rate. It seems everywhere you turn drug stores are appearing as anchors in small strip centers or as...
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Monday, June 12, 2006
Good luck, Joey.
I commend Joey Vento, owner of famed Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia, for putting up a sign at his place that if you didn't speak English, you didn't get served. Period. The sign's been up for six months. All of a sudden, within the past few days, everybody's on his ass for discrimination and that it...
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They're protesting just a little too much
Those protesting a work of fiction, The DaVinci Code, are actually - to paraphrase Shakespeare - protesting a little too much. Are these people, even those who have commented on my blog entry, so unsure of their own faith that they must take a fiction writer to task for his "poetic license"? Of...
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Sunday, June 11, 2006
Actually, it was a very good movie
Finally saw The DaVinci Code. Great movie. Thought-provoking plot. Enjoyed the scenes of Pais and England and The Louvre and it was faithful to the book, although it was condensed because of the 2½-hour length of the movie. The subject matter - Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were married and she...
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