December 19, 2012 With the fiscal cliff looming, talk is hot and heavy over cuts to entitlements. The $20, 000 question is, how much better off would we be if only those people are entitled were getting entitlements?
December 19, 2012 By anyone's standards, $20M in Maple syrup is a lot of sweet, sticky goodness and when it's stolen, as you can imagine, it's a pretty big deal for many reasons, not the least of which is, pancakes just aren't the same without it...
December 18, 2012 Thank you...I know, I'm too young to be a grandfather. That's what everybody says. People close to me say, "Oh, they're just being nice." I choose to believe I truly look like I'm too young for Peepeehood. Don't know what a Peepee is? Read on.....
December 17, 2012 Save for getting out this morning and shoveling the driveway with Marie Anne, taking a short ride with my pal Norm Elvin, doing some commercial voice work, writing this article, prepping for tomorrow's show and making a pot roast, I've done nothing at all.
December 15, 2012 When the sun came up in a small community in Connecticut this morning, the roaring silence was deafening in too many homes. Little voices that were there yesterday weren't asking for breakfast or cartoons. Tiny feet could not be heard innocently running around. No, today a new reality has set in for parents who, just yesterday morning, kissed their little ones goodbye for the very last time....
December 14, 2012 When I first started driving a car at 16, I was taught that when a light is yellow, you should be stopping unless you're just about at or right under it. When your light turned red, the light in the opposite direction, simultaneously, turned green.
December 14, 2012 I believe there are candidates out there for mandatory sterilization and this woman might be one of them, but what do I know?
December 13, 2012 Oscar Pistorious, South Africa's "Bladerunner," who competed in London last summer in the Olympics, has my attention. He's taken an unfortunate situation (having two prosthetic legs) and has, against all odds, become a winner to the extent that most of us can only dream of.
December 13, 2012 Think of your least favorite TV commercial. I can think of a couple that I have to turn down as soon as they come on because they're annoying and, moreover, LOUD!
December 12, 2012 When Norm Elvin decided to buy the old China True Value hardware store, he wasn't sure what he'd do with it. He owned it, it had possibilities, but for what? When the idea of a new sit-down eatery came up, he picked up a book called "Running A Restaurant For Dummies," and The China Dine-ah was born....
