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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...

The Everyone Must Be Able To Go To College Debacle

When you dine out, there is a good chance your server was a college graduate. There are at least 330,000 waiters, waitresses, taxi drivers...

The Tangled Roots of Labor (Day)

The following words are direct quotes from the archives of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. This summary provides insight into one of...

Privacy Concerns

Well, we can all be worried about that, even those who don’t have computers, don’t use email, aren’t on Facebook, Twitter or any other...

Accountability in Absentia

The venomous IRS misconduct of delaying tax-exempt approval for Tea Party and other conservative groups was termed a local ‘rogue activity’ by employees in...

The Beauty of The Trout Hajj

We just got back from our family vacation in Wyoming. A nearly five thousand mile road trip to a place where the continent divides...

Home With The Kids

From very many moons ago . . . After two weeks at Fork Union Military Academy, son Chester did the unthinkable. He sent his mother...
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