The fabled rock & roll band, The Grateful Dead, used to be a dead end job for their keyboardists, literally. The three guys who filled that seat full time, Ron “Pig Pen” McKernan, Keith Godcheaux and Brent Mydland, all died young. After that, [...]

Your influence spreads farther and wider than you know. It’s a big pond and our ripples touch people we never meet. Try to leave a rainbow instead of a [...]

Good world we live in. Big, broad and mobile as the Mississippi. Changeable as a kaleidoscope and just as colorful. No reason to ever get bored or stuck in a rut. Filled with wonderful, endlessly interesting people and things, and with a whole lot of cool [...]

Love is hard, life is hard, change is hard, loss is hard, decisions are hard. You want easy? Go with Tic-Tac-Toe. After a couple of rounds of that mindless crap, you’ll be ready for hard again, and you’ll be just fine with [...]

Former New York Football Giants’ wide receiver Plaxico Burress did a very stupid thing last November. He was out on the town with friends and a teammate having a good time just like a lot of young rich athletes in the big city. Only thing different is [...]

If you’re a pain in the ass, it’s not necessary to be a pain in the ass every waking moment. Give it a rest every so often, maybe take Tuesdays off or [...]

Like Dirty Harry said: “A man’s got to know his limitations.” The same can be said for governments. While the United States Federal Government takes an unfair rap that it can’t run anything properly, that’s just not true. Social [...]

The best revenge is no revenge at all. Keep them paralyzed, wondering when you will strike. Then you can go about your business, leaving them in the [...]

“Lawyers, Guns and Money” is a rock & roll song by the late Warren Zevon. The song describes a situation gotten into by a serial binger and party animal that pretty much got out of hand, even by madman standards. Great song. Lawyers, guns and [...]

If you find yourself taking hostages, odds are you didn’t spend sufficient time thinking things through beforehand. SWAT teams generally don’t cut you all that much slack when these things happen. Make [...]