Think Pink….OR ELSE!!

Posted on October 5, 2015

You may have noticed during the NFL games on Sunday that the league is in its annual “Pink Out” for breast cancer awareness.  Players are wearing pink gloves, pink sweatbands, pink towels and even pink shoes.  There are pink ribbons stamped on the balls and painted on the fields.  National anthems are being sung by…… MORE

Will This Be the One?

Posted on October 2, 2015

The question many were asking following yesterday’s incident in Oregon was “Will this finally be the mass shooting that leads to meaningful gun control legislation?”  It’s actually the same question that was asked after the previous mass shooting and the mass shooting before that and the mass shooting before that.  And as always, the answer is:…… MORE

Pawn Sacrifice

Posted on October 1, 2015

The next time members of the Oshkosh Common Council want to go on a diatribe about big box retailers and other corporations (and then spend 15-minutes at their next meeting backtracking from those comments by saying that phrases like “they are like boa constrictors” and “I would never do business with Time Warner Cable” were…… MORE

Six Months Into the Darkness

Posted on September 30, 2015

Earlier this week, I made my first batch of chili for the season.  It’s my concession to the end of warm summer days spent out at the grill making burgers, brats, steaks, chops, chicken and pretty much everything else every night.  Now it’s on to the “winter diet” of heartier fare like chili, meatloaf and…… MORE

The Scheme Team

Posted on September 29, 2015

Since there was no NFL RedZone Channel to watch last night,  I actually got to see extended portions of the Packers-Chiefs game–and I must say that Head Coach Mike McCarthy has developed the perfect offensive scheme for the modern NFL game.  After a boring opening drive it appeared that Playcaller Tom Clement just flipped to random…… MORE