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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...

DICK BAYNTON: The Supreme Court – Then and Now

John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a degree-conferring institution located in Manhattan that was established in 1954 and is part of the City...

DICK BAYNTON: Eclipsomania and Eclipsophobia: Do Not Delay Treatment!

Finally, dear friends and readers, political adversaries are on similar paths. Now these paths of parallel have some tributary loops off them, but on...

LUCKY GARVIN: Terror and The Unknown History of Masada

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” Shakespeare knew whereof he spoke, especially in the case of Saladin. Saladin first united many Persians in...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: Out of The Mouths of “Babes . . .”

Some grandmothers are all about babies. Not me. It's when they start talking they have the ability to reel me in. Last week Peter said he "predicted"...

MIKE KEELER: Man’s Best and Oldest Friend . . .

This one is about man's best friend. Who, as it turns out, is also man's oldest friend. No one knows for sure when civilization first...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: The Kindness of Strangers

Unexpected illness is never a welcome event but when you are in the midst of a vacation it is all the more daunting.  I...