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The Longevity of Women

February 9, 2011 – 8:58 pm

My late Uncle Carmine theorized that the longevity of women was due to the fact that men wait for women and every minute and hour stolen from a man was stored within a genetic code of a woman’s body. In America that advantage of life over death amounted to more than five years and I […]

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The Reign of Cold

February 4, 2011 – 2:22 pm

A vast number of Americans are beyond skepticism about Global Warming and this winter’s arctic weather has supported their claim that the Man’s actions has no effect of the climate. Their collective memory can’t recapture the drought in Russia or the long heatwave in the Midwest. Time only exists in the present and the present […]

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Back In The Land Of the Ice And Snow

January 28, 2011 – 10:08 pm

My flight from Incheon Korea lasted over 13 hours. Our landing at JFK was delayed by an hour. The airport was only operating one runaway. Snow plows were still working to unbury the other runways after a 19″ snowstorm. During the final approach I stared out the window at the ground. Most of the major […]

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Au Revoir Blizzard

January 2, 2011 – 6:50 pm

The 12/26 snowstorm paralyzed New York City. 24 inches of white was too much for the sanitation workers to handle. Streets and avenues in every borough were clogged by drifts. Plow crews were overwhelmed by the workload. 911 was besieged by emergency calls. The media accused the mayor of failure bordering on GW Bush’s response […]

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Sir Grope-A-Lot

December 1, 2010 – 6:20 am

I don’t go out to nightclubs anymore. A man my age is out of place in a disco. 58 years old with all those young people. Just isn’t right as Chris Rock said, “Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle down eventually? Because you don’t want to be the […]

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