This anniversary kind of snuck up on me. The only time I think of it is around this time each year mainly because the 25th is my sisters birthday so it triggers a memory. If you've read my first book, "The Smartest Generation" , (available exclusively on Amazon), then you know that I've managed to do more than my share of stupid things in my life. What happened fifty years ago this weekend takes the cake to be sure. It was stupid, funny, scary, and interesting all at the same

Regular readers of this blog are well aware of the fact that I hate the felon more than I have ever hated anyone on earth. There is nothing redeeming about this fool and as he gets older he is getting crazier and more dangerous and every single day I wake up and hope to read that he died. But, he is still here and he is still doing dangerous things. As a person that grew up in the 1960's, I saw, read, and lived stories about protests happening during that period. I protested

I'm sorry that it has been a few weeks since I spoke with you all but, as always lately, life keeps getting in the way. My soon to be 95 year old mother had a medical situation that led her to be taken to the emergency room where after taking around 34 gallons of blood, which took them 76 tries to find a vein, and another CAT scan they figured out that the small mass they found on her colon two weeks earlier had grown about 20%. Her options were to have surgery, where they ga

With the playoffs starting tomorrow it is time for my almost always incorrect predictions for this years MLB Playoffs. Let's start in the...