Weekly Thought Bonanza June 6th

On Sunday/Monday, I produce a column called “The Weekly Thought Bonanza”. The column is based on all of the random thoughts that run through my head all week, and trust me there are a plethora of them. I will try to share as many of these thoughts as I can, so each one of my readers can think just a little bit extra over the coming week.


First and foremost, thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for all of the thoughts and prayers I received during the last month after the death of my mother. During the next few days I will publish my mother’s eulogy which was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I feel like I have a new purpose in writing these columns, as I feel like I will be writing directly to her, in my heart and in my mind she will always be here with me. With her guidance, hopefully these columns will have a greater purpose for all.

The Boston Celtics versus the Los Angeles Lakers, can it get any better than that?

Al Gore and Tipper Gore are calling it quits. Who would have bet that they would be divorced before Bill and Hillary?

Speaking of William Jefferson Clinton, I believe he did not really have a good month of May. First, he gets caught trying to get a Pennsylvania Congressmen to leave a Senate Race and then the movie Special Relationship aired on HBO, which did not put the former president in a very good light. Ex-Presidents are supposed to be just that, an Ex-President.

When you have not written a ton over a two month span you have all these great ideas floating in your head. Problem is remembering all of those great ideas.

I know I am a little late jumping into the game, however if President Bush waited twenty something days and went golfing during the largest oil spill and economic disaster ever just imagine the backlash.

If you’re a baseball fan and didn’t get upset with the blown call that cost a Detroit Tiger pitcher a perfect game just think what instant replay would have done to correct the problem. If you don’t want replay every play, at least try a challenge system that would give each team two challenges a game for out calls. They already have replay for home runs, why not do more?

Chilean Sea Bass is a very underrated food.

Physicians estimate that by 2030, 13.5 million people a year will die of some sort of cancer. That statistic to me is downright scary.

The Sh*T my Father Says, by Justin Halpern, is absolutely laugh out loud funny!!

I am forty one years old and I now have a totally grey beard. I have been using Grecian Formula since I was twenty years old. Great having a fourteen month old and a baby due any day. I just wish hair would grow on my head and not everywhere else. Ok, too much information.

I bought the new IPAD and I love the thing! I thought the Nook was great, but an IPAD is a Nook on steroids.

With all the flavors of Doritos I think I am going to get really fat. I love putting cheese spread on each chip.

I finally got around to watching Avatar and I must say I did enjoy it. Sherlock Holmes, however was a waste of time.

My thought of the week is really not a thought, but more of a question this week. Why are sideline reporters at major sporting events still asking the dumbest questions?

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Go ahead play that bracket

March Madness is upon us and everyone who has filled out a pool anxiously awaits each round of the NCAA tournament to see how they are doing. NCAA college basketball is now a billion dollar business and the thought of me ever filling out a pool again just adds to this despicable empowering of betting on collegiate athletics.


I must admit; I used to play the “office” pool every year and then I started to wonder if it was adding to the pressures played upon student athletes during this tournament. When has a game or tournament for that matter become a national betting obsession?

I love sports, that has never been a question in my mind. I do, however; not bet on sports. Betting on sports for me ruins the fun of watching sports. Billions of dollars are bet each year on professional and college athletics. Is this why sports were invented? I tend to think not.

Gambling as ruined lives and families, yet we as a nation continue to allow this. Gambling is a national epidemic that needs to be stopped.

College athletes have always been a major part of their Universities. School pride to me is what college sports should be about and not the point spread on some game. I played sports to play for the love of the game and not to make some gambler rich. My bones creak and the pain in my knees are always there for me, but I did not make one red cent from playing sports.

I lost a lot of friends in school because of gambling and I hope they all have found their way. I miss those guys and I could never see what their addiction was.

Whether it is casino gambling or betting on sports this is not going to go away any time soon. I am not going to be a martyr and call for the end of gambling. I just want to end it on college sports.

Look at the gambling scandals that have plagued college sports, has anything been so damaging to the integrity of Universities?

So the next time that you go and fill out a college pool, think about how this affects the integrity and the school spirit of our colleges.

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Weekly Thought Bonanza March 17th

On Sunday/Monday, I produce a column called “The Weekly Thought Bonanza”. The column is based on all of the random thoughts that run through my head all week, and trust me there are a plethora of them. I will try to share as many of these thoughts as I can, so each one of my readers can think just a little bit extra over the coming week.


Nursing homes in this country are an absolute disgrace in this country. We let our parents and grandparents live the remaining years of their life in an underfunded and understaffed facility. This is a shame, a darn shame.

Anyone have a boat for us here in the Northeast?

This country has a bigger population of its people behind bars than any other country in the world. County Jails are full of people who are in jail for petty cases that should be civil cases. Where is PETA to cry for humans in cages? They protest when lions are in cages.

Law Abiding Citizen starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler is a great movie.

No more health care talk please. Scott Brown said it best last week when he said, “Shouldn’t we be concentrating on jobs.”

Term limits for Congressmen should be addressed again. For too long we have let the same people run the show in the United States Congress. If it is good enough to limit the President it is good enough to limit Congress too.

The CIA chief has stated that Al-Qaeda is on the run. Does anyone in the world really truly believe that is true?

Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington admitted he made a "huge mistake" when he used cocaine and failed a Major League Baseball drug test last season.

In his first public acknowledgment, Washington apologized Wednesday for his behavior, eight months after he told Rangers president Nolan Ryan, who turned down the manager's offer to resign.

"I made a huge mistake and it almost caused me to lose everything I have worked for all of my life," Washington said at a news conference Wednesday. "I am not here to make excuses. There are none."

Washington said he used cocaine only once and called it "stupid" and "shameful."

Washington is a disgrace to the Rangers and to all of baseball in my opinion.

This season of 24 is the best one yet.

A California Highway Patrol report released Wednesday says an officer responding to a report of a runaway Toyota Prius arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with lights flashing.

The Border Patrol presence raises the prospect that there were other witnesses, but the report offers few new details and does nothing to clarify wildly divergent explanations from Toyota Motor Corp. and the driver, who says his gas pedal got stuck and sent him to speeds topping 90 mph March 8 on a California freeway.

Toyota has dismissed James Sikes' account, saying its tests show he pressed the gas and brakes rapidly 250 times, the maximum amount of data that the car's self-diagnostic system captures.

So glad I bought that Toyota.

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Getting Back to a "Normalized" Life

My daily column will return on the 15th of March. I took a few weeks off to help with my mother's care for cancer. Please support all charities that help in this terrible disease.



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Weekly Thought Bonanza February 22nd

On Monday I produce a column called “The Weekly Thought Bonanza”. The column is based on all of the random thoughts that run through my head all week, and trust me there are a plethora of them. I will try to share as many of these thoughts as I can, so each one of my readers can think just a little bit extra over the coming week.


Is it me or have we really lowered ourselves as a nation when we have to change hotdogs because children are choking on them? I gave my son a hotdog once when we ordered from the kiddies menu. I cut my son’s hotdog into a million pieces, took me twenty five minutes, but I did it. I cut the hotdog into pieces for my nine month old at the time. Let’s not redesign the bun because parents are too lazy or more to the point, don’t want to get their food cold.

The new Sirius/XM Blackberry App is fabulous.

If you are a sports, fan the hockey game between the United States of America and Canada is an instant classic. I have never been more excited for a game since the Miracle on Ice game in 1980.

Ham, Pineapple, and Garlic pizza is the best I have ever tasted.

Stuart Woods novels are excellent. I am really enjoying his new novel, Kisser. He is one author that needs to be checked out.

I love old ripped T-shirts. They are the best to wear to bed.

Whatever happened to Doan’s pills. Wasn’t it the miracle cure for back aches. My back and knees are killing me from years of football and rugby. Why can I not find it?

Mitt Romney is the next Ronald Reagan. Watch, listen, and learn, people Romney in 2012 is a Dr Cris Chasse lock.

The democrats are bringing healthcare back. What will it take for them to stop rushing through this bill and actually trying to make one that makes sense?

Bode Miller, it is about time, my man!!

I am watching ice dancing. Why? I have no idea except to say the Americans have a shot at two medals.

Jay Leno is back next Monday where he certainly belongs and never should have had the 11:30 time slot taken away. Conan O’brien I feel really bad for you. Keep your chin up my friend. No pun intended.

Does anyone remember records anymore?

The Weekly Thought Bonanza Thought of the Week; Why are all of our politicians in the hospital with heart problems? Is it because their jobs are so stressful that they cannot handle it?

There is nothing wrong with being the cowboy every once an awhile

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Weekly Thought Bonanza February 16th

Finally this week we have the “The Weekly Thought Bonanza”. The column is based on all of the random thoughts that run through my head all week, and trust me there are a plethora of them. I will try to share as many of these thoughts as I can, so each one of my readers can think just a little bit extra over the coming week.


I knew when I bought my Toyota truck Toyota was having a few problems, but when my Toyota was recalled because it has a tendency to just not stop it kind of made me a bit nervous. When I watched it drive away by itself and pick up my dry cleaning, I did not know if this is going to be a problem or a welcome addition. In all seriousness, I believe Toyota is getting the raw end of the stick a bit. I do however, feel that it will be deserved if it is found that they lied to Congress about the problems they had with their vehicles early on.

When did restaurants start bringing soda with lemons in it automatically? I want a diet coke not with a lemon.

I cannot sing that is a given. Even in the shower my voice has some major issues. I certainly do not get that extra acoustic bounce in the shower. I at least know I cannot sing. I wish others would follow my lead. On a side note, if you get kicked out of a singing competition stop crying and stop telling people how much you had to endure. Please people, man up.

I must thank all of my readers for the e-mails of support I receive due to my mom’s battle with Cancer, (yes, I capitalize it). It was a tough week for mom, as see is in the ICU at the hospital. She does not quit though and I wish you could just bottle that toughness.

Lost has just gotten weird. I do not get it anymore, not that I ever did.

Steven King’s new book, The Dome, was a great right up until page seven hundred and fifty out of eight hundred and twenty three. Then it just got weird. Notice the theme going on here?

The body of a veteran climber who fell 1,500 feet into the crater atop Mount St. Helens was recovered Tuesday after he spent more than a day in the snow, authorities said.

God do I love my Blackberry.

Clouds and wind had hampered efforts to reach Joseph Bohlig, 52, who was posing for a picture Monday on the rim of the dormant crater when a snow overhang gave way and he fell into the volcano. If you pose for a picture on the edge of a crater you are just asking for trouble.

I started to write a novel and I hope people will actually read it and enjoy it as much as I am enjoying writing it.

Consumer alert. Do not buy a Walmart vacuum cleaner. I have bought three of them and each one has broken after a few uses. I am going to Sears and getting a Kenmore.

If all of the anti-aging cream really worked, we would be beautiful forever.

The Weekly Thought Bonanza Thought of the week; The Olympics are way too commercial. We build up our countries athletes only to tear them down when they do not win. They are athletes people and people lose.



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