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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won the Nathan‘s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which was located at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New...

BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: More Than Just Walking to School

January 22, 2019

Today there's a train blocking my path. I’ve been moving lightly on foot along the worn trail, two text books and two spiral notebooks tucked...

DICK BAYNTON: Innuendo and Actuality

January 21, 2019

The recent articles in the New York Times are teeming with rich and tempting innuendo. The rough definition of the word innuendo is ‘an...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Story of The Dying Man

January 18, 2019

Two weeks ago, he was working at a very high-tech job. Yes, he had metastatic cancer, but he once had hope; he was on...

MIKE KEELER: Beware The Super Blood Wolf Moon!

January 18, 2019

This is, like, really really horrible. First, it's about wolves. Cold, hungry, desperate, nasty wolves that prowl outside your home in the winter night. Wolves...

SAMUEL MOORE-SOBEL: A Play on Vice

January 15, 2019

George W. Bush apparently asked Dick Cheney to be his running mate while munching on a fried chicken leg. Or that is at least how...

DICK BAYNTON: Government 101: Theory & Practice

January 14, 2019

In representative government, voters elect officials who in turn hire workers to carry out the policies of those who have been elected. That is...

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BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

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ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest Is An Ode To Gluttony

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