Mitch’s Blog

A couple of months ago, a DJ at a rap station in New York City got arrested and fired from his job when, on air, he made threatening statements against the wife and child of a DJ at another radio station. Basically, he said he was going to kill this man’s wife and rape [...]

There’s a restaurant I go to that’s probably, at present, my favorite restaurant locally. It’s called Julie’s Diner, in North Syracuse, and they only serve breakfast and lunch. I try to go at least twice a month for breakfast, and, since I’ve been going a long time, they know my face fairly well [...]

I was reading an article on how there are companies across the country that are enacting policies regarding tobacco use among its employees. More specifically, instead of companies banning smoking at the workplace, they’re banning smoking period, even during an employee’s personal time.
The reason is supposedly simple; companies say health care costs are rising, [...]

Sometimes it takes something somewhat radical to help get you kick started back into a work mode. I had been in a general malaise for a few weeks, since I got back from North Dakota, but the truth is that I was still tired from a long consulting assignment, and I just needed a [...]

There are two movies that I can watch over and over. They are Armageddon and Independence Day. Each one is a science fiction movie where the overall theme is that a central or main character has to take on a special act of courage in order to save the Earth from destruction by [...]

On this national American holiday, I thought it would be proper to post some quotes from prominent leaders of our past, to remind us of our ultimate mission as leaders:
“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Freedom is nothing else [...]

There’s a story from the Associated Press today concerning something I feel as though I’ve been fighting my entire life. It’s titled Black Men Quietly Combating Stereotypes, and it basically talks about how some black men try to live life in a certain way to help break what’s seen as traditional stereotyping of what [...]