Winning in Overtime Isn’t As Good As Winning in Regulation Time
Things are seldom settled based on one issue. “The play that lost the game” is usually just a play with time running out or at a precarious moment, but why…
Stuff Happens
I believe that some fortunate and unfortunate things happen to all of us at times, with no apparent justification (although we often know the cause). You can win a lottery…
THEY Are the Problem!
Howard Beale’s (Peter Finch’s) cry in the 1976 film Network: “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!,” There is a surfeit of people “mad…
If You Don’t Trust You, Then I Don’t, Either
If you don’t have enough confidence in yourself, your worth, and your contributions to make investments in your own development, even using debt to do so, then you’re never going…
Realtor Sentenced
I’ve mentioned here in the past an unethical Point Pleasant, NJ realtor who committed arson. According to the Toms River Patch, he’s finally being punished: FREEHOLD, NJ — A Toms…
Human Nature Isn’t Always Olympian
I see the Olympics as such a noble, globally unifying ideal. Yet we keep score of the medal count. We raise an event winner’s flag and play that country’s national…
Houston, We Have A Problem
There are mechanical problems with Boeing’s spacecraft so that the two astronauts scheduled for an eight-day trip may have to spend months there—one estimate is next February. The spacecraft can’t…
Social Media Realities
I love comments on Facebook that begin with, “Unfriend me if you want to, but….” as if the comment being made is so radical, when it’s actually just the writer’s…