Category, Worth Thinking About

A Salute to Steve Jobs
19 DEC 2011

(This is being typed on a MacBook Pro, researched via its Safari browser on a FIOS by Verizon fibre optic line. It will be read on Macs, iPhones, iPads as well as many other desktop, laptop, and hand-held devices that try to keep up with the pace-setters in Cupertino, Calif). The worldwide impact made by Steve Jobs is unimaginable. Quite simply, he is a legend. There has never been a human being who has changed the world in so many different ways. There has never been a CEO/businessman who has made world class and industry-leading contributions to so many different aspects of the way we...

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Save the Sport of Kings
19 DEC 2011

Horse Racing is the original American Sport. In the late 1600's the Governor of New York, Peter Stuyvesant built a racetrack in what was to become the borough of Queens and horse racing was born in America. In the early part of the 20th century it was among the most popular sports, if not the most popular form of sports entertainment in American. It goes back as far as man goes back. So why is it dying in the 21 century and what can be done? Some quick background, I've been a Horse Racing fan since I was in high school. Growing up on Long Island my friends and I used to sneak out of sch...

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Mixed Messages Everywhere you Look: But Welts Sends the Right One
18 DEC 2011

When you are in need of a good lead paragraph, there is none better than the Declaration of Independence which reads: "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...

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Of NFL Labor, Washington Politics, Sarah Palin and a Wise Guy
19 NOV 2011

Right smack in the middle of the lockout-resolving love-fest, the man who helped save football couldn't resist and cracked wise. "I hope we gave a little lesson to the people in Washington," said New England Patriots team owner Bob Kraft, " because the debt crisis is a lot easier to fix than this was." Kraft was standing alongside the NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, and the Patriots owner spoke to the assembled media while being televised in living color and in high definition by the NFL's very own network. Kraft spoke after DeMaurice Smith, the former executive director of ...

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