Archive for February, 2008

Sometimes my wife’s cousin comes up with some of the best stuff. I think this is a great thing to close this year’s Black History Month out with, especially with the extra day. The site is called Martin Luther King Soundboard and it’s basically access to sound clips and speeches of Dr. King’s throughout his […]

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On the next to the last day of Black History Month for this year, there’s an email going around that I’ve received in previous years entitled “Life Without Black People”. Basically, it’s a “what-if” black people had never been in America and what would have been lost because of their contributions in making this country […]

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Okay, here’s the initial story; I’m not sure if this link will work, so I’ll highlight it, just in case. Ten Filipino nurses resigned from the Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Center in Smithtown, NY, at the same time. They said they left because conditions were dangerous, they’d brought their concerns up to management, believed […]

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I’m not often one of those guys who believes that the top guy in a large organization needs to be fired because of something a subordinate they might not even know did. Therefore, I’m not going to go there in this instance either,… at least not for the initial indiscretion. By now, everyone has heard […]

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I go out to dinner often, and whether I order water or diet soda, these folks, most of the time, put lemon in my drink if I forget to ask them not to. I don’t like lemons, and outside of lemon meringue pie, I’m not overly crazy about the flavor either. So imagine my reaction […]

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