It began the night before with Crystella standing in her usual Saturday evening spot, a street corner. She was hoping to earn enough to keep her pimp, Geoff happy, if not if would mean yet another beating. “You lookin’ to party?” Crystella asked as the mini van rolled to a stop. “Yeah,” shot back the…

The news ain’t good. Harley, our Jack Russell mix has cancer and while he’s not in pain, tomorrow I will return to the vet clinic and have him put down. Oh, and he’s such a good dog too. Yes, my heart is aching, though not fully broken yet. Ending the life of a family pet,…

Generally, I don’t do predictions, especially regarding politics. But I have to go out on a limb — complete with a saw in hand. Hillary Clinton is going to run for the presidency in 2016. I based this on the fact that Leon Panetta in his new book, “Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War…

When I went to bed one evening, the U.S. was going to bomb ISIS/ISIL, but by the next morning it was a group no one had heard of, that had been attacked. In essence the U.S. made a gift of the Khorasan to the Republic of Iran, in hopes they will help fight ISIS/ISIL. As this…

America’s society is at a real crossroads. And I’m afraid the outcome is no longer in this generations hands. In Hong Kong, people are risking their lives protesting against the Chinese Communist government which wants the final say over who can run for elected office. Meanwhile in Denver, Colorado, high school students are walking out…

Roger Hart, manager of the popular Reno casino showroom act, ‘Paul Revere and the Raiders,’ says Revere died Saturday, October 4th at his home in Garden Valley, Idaho, from cancer. In July 2014, Revere posted on Facebook that he was dealing with some ailments. Despite doctors’ request that he take a break, Revere and his…

Stop being scared to make a mistake. Doing something and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing. Every success has a trail of failures behind it, and every failure is leading towards success. You end up regretting the things you didn’t do far more than the things you did.

The guy who came to the U.S. with Ebola did it on purpose. After all, where is the best place in the world to get treatment for the disease? Yeah, the U.S. — and all Thomas Duncan had to do was get here. He helped a woman by transporting her to a hospital in Liberia,…

Looking through several old newspaper clippings from an online data base, I happened upon a story from August 1958 about a couple of suspicious blazes in Crescent City, California. Unfortunately, the clipping fail to identify what paper the clipping are from or the exact date of the report. “Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the possibility someone deliberately set…

“New York’s Staten Island Zoo attempted to cover up news that the groundhog accidentally dropped by Mayor Bill de Blasio during the 2014 Groundhog Day celebration died from internal injuries a week after the fall,” reports The New York Post. News like this is so hard to take, not because of the death of a…