Ok… I resisted this as long as I could but I feel that someone has to stick up for poor Tiger Woods. I know… I know… how could I or anyone feel bad for Tiger?! As I have been forced to watch this saga unfold since even my beloved ESPN won’t give it a rest I have developed the mind set that Tiger was set up to fail from the very beginning.

The summer after my disastrous 6th grade school year started off with great promise. I was happy to be out of school and excited about the thought of finally attending public school in the fall even if my departure from Catholic school was a bit dramatic (another story another time). The second morning of my [...]

“I’ve worn lots of shoes.”
– Forrest Gump
As I am writing this I am sitting in my old worn leather chair with cracked leather on the arms. I am wearing a Polo t-shirt with the front pocket torn off… the pocket being the victim of a 2 am wrestling match outside of a friend’s house after [...]

When I was a kid… many years ago the American car industry hit a rough patch because Japanese imports were putting a damper on sales. It seemed that Americans preferred the Japanese cars with their excellent engineering and high gas mileage. Sound Familiar?! In my mind the mark of a great country is their ability [...]

The television news stations are filled with the talk of potential investigations of torture by officials of the United States Government. The hot topic is over the use of water boarding of people imprisoned at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
According to Wikipedia: Waterboarding is a form of torture[1][2] that consists of immobilizing the [...]

A lot of people have asked me; “Big Dirty how do you feel about Same Sex Marriage?” It seems to be a hot topic lately in terms of social problems and societal questions in this country. Since I have never had a successful marriage, I am uncertain why anyone would actually want to get married [...]