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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...

Life With Emily

In an earlier commentary, I may have misled the reader into thinking I had only one strong Christian lady in my life. IN truth,...

The Somewhat Wondrous Adventure of Martin Luther

I have recently come across ‘The Great Courses.’ These are DVD’s on every conceivable subject, exhorted by educators who specialize in various topics. The specific...

The Soft Earth’s Alchemist – H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.

Over this past Labor Day Weekend while visiting with friends in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, I met an alchemist: Joan Lederman. Like an affable conjurer, Joan...

America—Land of Opportunity?

That’s what we always hear but it depends on a lot of things.  Where you were born, did you get an education, did you...

Tales of Abuse & Waste in The Land of Abundance

A recent report listed claims related to the disastrous BP Gulf Oil Spill in 2010. Payments were made from a $20 billion BP fund...

What Do We Do Now, Now That We’re Happy?

So Estragon poses to Vladmir in the iconic play, “Waiting for Godot.”  This question really struck me when listening to excerpts in a recent...