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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest On July 4th 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...

Get In Touch With Your Inner Tortoise

I heard this expression while watching a TED Talk given by Carl Honore, a journalist who has written for The Economist and The Houston Chronicle and author of...

Government: Accountability Abrogated

In December 2013, a 46 year-old Mexican national named Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes was sentenced in a San Diego federal court to 55 years in...

The Hidden Persuaders

Such was the title of a book published in 1957 by Vance Packard. A newspaper journalist by trade, he eventually turned to books and...

Born and Raised on a Trampoline

Ok, so the title is a little bit of an exaggeration. Still, I did spend an awful lot of time on our trampoline when...

Wild Bill’s Sports Roundup!

Oh, goodness. I think I'm hearing some slurred chirping coming from The Chief's office. Not sure, but I think The Chief's Perfect Polly may need...

Believing What You Know Ain’t So

I came across this Mark Twain quote on faith in a predictably circuitous fashion. For some reason, I recently searched for two professors I...