Tiger Woods behaved like a jackass. Agreed? The guy made a fool of himself, and worse, his poor, mortified wife. Does anyone, including Woods, dispute this fact? Woods behaved like the worst sort of hound. Nobody need feel sorry for this man. He deserves the repeated kicks in the gut that are still coming. Forgive [...]

Here is a little driving exercise for you while driving around the Erie region: Keep an eye out and count how many Confederate flag images you see in rear truck windshields. While you’re at it, count the Confederate Stars and Bars images on car bumper stickers. Now ask yourself some questions: Did you ever wonder [...]

I approach this blog as a writer who wrote newspaper columns of various forms for nearly 25 years. So naturally, I basically see a blog as a column that doesn’t run in a newspaper.

They don’t list Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s height on her official House Web site. No fighting weight either. One could surmise that Pelosi is maybe around 5-foot and 110 pounds. Maybe.

March Madness! The Big Dance?

Duke?

Syracuse?

Kentucky?

Kansas?

That’s my Final Four.

Our capacity for stupidity seems endless. It’s 10:30 Tuesday morning. On the way to the kitchen, I looked out at semi-frozen Lake Erie from the living room picture window. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There, maybe 200 yards out on the now thinly frozen Great Lake, was a cross-country skier and a dog. The temperature [...]

Before transferring my journalism flag to the entertainment and opinion pages, I did my newspapering as a sportswriter for the Peoria Journal Star. While I loved the actual work, I came to detest the hours. And the nights. And the weekend assignments. And the fast food.

One more sad dog tale …

I still remember that sickening panic 21 years ago when my passport went missing. Also – Tiger Woods, Politics and Erie Rail Lines.

Now maybe it’s just me, but after reading the detailed stories, penetrating columns and sassy blogs painstakingly detailing how the Tea Party movement could forever alter American politics, all those despicable images depicting President Obama wearing Hitler mustaches re-emerge in all their hateful excess.