So, I had to laugh as I was listening to a local radio station in the car today.

The discussion was about Valentine’s Day, of course. In a local survey of listeners, two thirds preferred to keep Valentine’s as a holiday, as opposed to getting rid of it. That surprised me.

One woman who called in to the station had the most vocal views on the subject. Her main peeve was how disgusting if was for people who had only been dating for two weeks to receive huge bouquet of roses and boxes of chocolates at work.

Whereas she, who had been married for ten years, would be lucky to even get a cheap... Continue Reading

Human beings are capable of justifying almost anything.
We justify our actions, the decisions we make, and first, foremost and worst of all, we justify our own prejudices.
Maybe this is why an all-white fire department can dismiss its only black volunteer member, hear two of its other members testify that department leadership used race as a means to humiliate and ostracize the member, but yet still chalk the dismissal up to a “personality conflict.”
Gilbert Darrell, a seven-year veteran of the South Schenectady Fire Department that covers parts of Rotterdam, said he believes his dismissal in December was... Continue Reading