I don't know about you all, but we get thirty phone calls a day from various companies wanting us to listen to their pitch on changing our Medicare advantage coverage to whatever crap they are pushing. It is annoying and I feel like crawling through the phone and choking the liar on the other end. But that is not what this is about today. Well, it is about Medicare in a sense. It is also about Social Security, insurance costs, and the rest of our out of control world revolvin

Coming of age during, arguably, music's greatest era means that there are a lot of great albums and songs I've heard and enjoyed. I could list a hundred groups and singers that have moved me with their music in my life but that isn't what I want to write about today. Music, like all the arts, is completely subjective. What I like may not be what you like but that doesn't mean that what you like isn't important and good. It just means that you are wrong. I'm kidding. We all ha

If you are anyone other than a Dodger fan this picture makes you hurt from head to toe. Not since the Yankees of the 80's and 90's has a team generated more hatred by fans around the world than this Dodgers team. That is great for baseball. Sports needs heroes and villains, especially villains. We all love and are devoted to our favorite teams and players but when their season ends, and other teams are playing on, we need someone to cheer for and someone to root against. It i

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