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Warning: To avoid embarrassing yourself, please stop right now and close the door, or wait until you’re alone before reading the rest of this post. Why? Because if you’re like me, you may just laugh out loud, thereby drawing curious stares from those around you.
Here’s the setup: Periodically, a militant vegetarian (sometimes called [...]

Talk about adding insult to injury. I’ve just had a look at box office revenue figures for this weekend. The Golden Compass (see my previous thoughts on this movie) earned a paltry $9M in revenue, for a total take of $41M since opening two weeks ago.
By comparison, Alvin and the Chipmunks earned $45M–in its first [...]

Some who read this blog are friends and family in far flung locations, so you likely don’t read the Press & Sun-Bulletin, our local newspaper, nor the “story chats” posted online. Story chats allow readers to post their thoughts about a particular story, add new information, or engage in spirited debates with other readers. As [...]

Good grief. Did you know that New York State taxpayers fund daycare for $1 billion??? This is astonishing and amazing to me! Is it any wonder our state is going down the proverbial rathole?
I read in this morning’s Press & Sun-Bulletin that the county executives across New York have made a new budget request from [...]

I suppose the headline lets you know what I think of The Golden Compass, out in theaters today. I would like to explain why. Before you prejudge me as “right-wing wacko fundamentalist Christian,” please hear me out.
A few prefatory comments before I explain my opposition to this movie. First, I am not in favor of [...]

If you lived in the Greater Binghamton area in 2006, you no doubt vividly recall the flood of June 2006. It was referred to as a “500 year flood,” meaning it was the kind of “perfect storm” that results in flood waters rising to a catastrophic level–the kind of thing that happens once every 10 [...]

Sunday’s Press & Sun-Bulletin contained a column by perennial leftist David Rossie titled “Welcome, fair readers, to the Misinformation Age” in which Mr. Rossie takes aim (yet again) at Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. You see, if you’re stupid enough to think that Rush and other right-wing “Munchausens” dispense anything other than tall [...]