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Our veterinarian is a mad scientist — in a good way

December 3rd, 2011 at 11:56 » Comments (2)

[caption id="attachment_1142" align="alignright" width="314" caption="Lucy, the "itchy scratchy, wiggy" three-legged dog"][/caption] My brother in law, Rob Fitzpatrick, has written a song for our family's pet miniature poodle, Lucy. It's sung to the ...more »

What’s that scratching sound?

December 13th, 2010 at 10:17 » Comments (2)

An odd benefit to growing up with two legally blind sisters in the 1970s was my very early DJ career. Along with magnifying glasses and the weekly large-print edition of The ...more »

DTV: Even Radio Shack didn’t have the answer

June 29th, 2009 at 10:52 » Comments Off

Scores of Americans who live outside of metropolitan areas lost some good friends in June. And they weren't Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. The companions who disappeared ...more »

Korean translation for ‘chutzpah’ may be newest Twitter challenge

May 15th, 2009 at 15:43 » Comments Off

New Yorker Sandy Cohen has started an unconventional translation company, Speaklike.  Rather than thriving on the conversion of encyclopedia-sized documents from English into Arabic or Portuguese, Sandy's start-up offers Twitter ...more »

Too bad media, public can’t turn a blind eye to non-Hollywood governor

May 7th, 2009 at 19:11 » Comments (1)

Being politically correct is not working in New York politics. I am not surprised but terribly disappointed that the Empire State’s legally blind, African American governor, David Paterson, is being ...more »