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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...

Recycling and Hollywood Have Changed Just a Bit

I was a thirteen year old boy scout in a farming community over fifty years ago.  While nowadays, people recycle their own paper to...

Government: Leadership by Proxy

Some men that have lived in the subsidized housing called The White House perpetuate the notion that their intellect is superior to all others....

Both Feet Planted Firmly in Mid Air

I heard this expression on a podcast discussing moral relativism, and it caused me to think of the term, head in the clouds- you...

Affordable Care Act Anything But Affordable

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became the ‘law of the land’ on March 23, 2010. Well, partly. It has been changed several...

No Way Out But Through

I thought about this as I was recently driving back to Charlottesville through a wicked storm in which heavy rain caused my van to...

Viewing Things Differently

Have you ever been trapped into a particular way of thinking or acting because you lacked the imagination to think differently?  Maybe with a...