Mitch's Blog

It would seem that common sense left the building this week as it concerns the weekly newspaper AsianWeek, and it’s made national news. One of their contributing writers, a man named Kenneth Eng, wrote an article called “Why I Hate Blacks”. It wasn’t a long article, but it was powerful, though in a negative way. [...]

By now, most people in New York state know about the Berger Commission and it’s series of recommendations for hospital and nursing home closings, mergers, and the like. Well, now word is getting out that almost none of the hospitals that the people who were entrusted to make these decisions about were actually visited. Instead, [...]

There’s many things I do that get accolades from many people. Sometimes, when one has had a nice string of successes, one starts to think one can’t do any wrong, that their finger is on the pulse of the world. And that’s when reality kicks in. A friend of my wife’s asked me to design [...]

By now, most everyone in America, and it seems, around the world, knows that Senator Barack Obama from Illinois is running for president in 2008. What’s ironic isn’t that race has already come into the discussion; it’s how it’s come into the discussion. As reported in the blog The Black Factor, it would seem that [...]

If you want your business to survive, you don’t go around messing with mothers. That’s the story here, as the National Pork Board tried to intimidate a woman who writes a blog called The Lactivist from selling t-shirts that said “the other white milk” on them to help raise money for a website that promotes [...]

Last week, a former NBA player named John Amaechi came out and said that he was gay. It immediately caused a firestorm, not necessarily because he was gay, but because of when he was coming out with it, since he’s now promoting a book. Some thought it should have come out much sooner, while he [...]

The warning we always get from our local news channels came true for a acquaintance of mine today. I got word from the daughter of this acquaintance that he passed away today, suffering a critical heart attack while shoveling snow in his driveway. He was about 3 years older than me, but I’ve known him [...]

Am I getting more touchy lately? Maybe, maybe not. I’m going to tell a story, then add some follow up; you be the judge. A few years ago in a Ryze network devoted to coaching, a lady asked a question. Seems she’d only been coaching women and was starting to think about coaching men, and [...]

Well, a black head coach won the Super Bowl, and it was a nice thing to see. And yet, even with that, there are still so many more wrongs that need to be righted before anyone can really take overt pleasure in it all. This brings me to a local story about a local former [...]

I’m late to this discussion because, well, I wanted to be last in on it. I want to give the proper accolades to both Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts and Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears for getting their teams into the Super Bowl. I’m somewhat surprised that Indianapolis is favored, as bad as [...]