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Gay, straight - I don’t care we’re all people, but somone may want to check into all of this discussion about homosexuality being the result of genetics and not choice (or vice versa) - just ask Bill Richardson, he’s still not sure.
HUMOR ALERT - IF THE FOLLOWING IS OFFENSIVE TO YOU, YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T LIKE […]

By luck I find myself along with my family in the Charleston, South Carolina area getting a little r ‘n’ r (of course lucky us it’s supposed to be in the 100 degree zone the whole time we’re here), and that affords me the chance to enjoy a little southern hospitality and relax.
One of my favorite […]

I’ve been a little bemused lately at the uproar (yes Jill, I’m calling you out on this:
“I’m not much into name-calling, but I gotta tell you - the way the Republican candidates are freaking out over the CNN/YouTube debates - criminal and immature at the same time. You want people to vote for you, but […]

“I aim high,” all 20 roar, using their hands to shoot 20 imaginary baskets.
“I will never, never, never, accept failure,” they boom, shaking their heads, “because I’m destined for greatness.”
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“Do y’all smell that?” he asked the audience. “It’s the smell of fire! Destiny’s burning in the fumes. Young lives just being consumed. […]

What’s 1700 into 4500? Mathematically it can be explained as 0.37777778. Or as 37.8%. In Cleveland it can also be explained as complete and utter FAILURE!
You see, in August 2003, 4500 kids started their freshman year in Cleveland’s public high schools. 1700 out of the 4500 graduated in 2007. Nationally, about one-third of all public […]

As a Clevelander one of the things we’ve come to expect is the inability of our elected officials and those in positions of power (the Intelligensia) to accurately account for their use of public funds.  In recent years that’s meant that the Cleveland Public Municipal Metropolitan Memorial Regional North Shore Insert Name You Think Fits […]

My wife, Kathy, and I have a running argument about that bulbous lightning rod of public opinion - Michael Moore. I used to be a Moore fan (when I knew less about his methods - get it Moore and Less… ha, ha, ha I slay me), but a few years ago I gave up […]

This morning as I was getting my first dose of the day’s news, I was struck by the conversation between the BBC World host Dan Damon and an on-air correspondent/expert who were discussing today’s report of the execution by the Chinese of former government official Zheng Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu was executed after being convicted for […]

Ahh, summer time in the city…
Last night as my family and I were huddled down in the flammable 3-story victorian bomb shelter we call home in our “fashionable section” of the city of Cleveland, we watched and listened to the never-ending caucophony of firecrackers, bottle rockets, gunfire, roman candles, dynamite (I shit you not) and sundry other […]

With tomorrow’s holiday and the “out with the trash” approach by the Bush administration in announcing the President’s decision to commute the sentence of former Vice Presidential staffer Scooter Libby, I’ve been wondering what freedom means.

I mean Libby will be spending the 4th of July with his family instead of sitting in a jail cell […]