By Louis Avallone – You heard about that didn’t you? Oprah Winfrey commented last week that the critics of the President should show “a certain level of respect” to him? After all, she said, “…everybody has a learning curve, and I feel that the reason why I was willing to step out for him was […]
January 26, 2011 By Louis Avallone – As humans, we have a natural tendency to want to create order from chaos, buy perhaps sometimes, there’s no neat truth to be had. Nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally, during an open meeting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding with members of her constituency in […]
December 1, 2010 By Louis Avallone – Good Grief, Charlie Brown In December 1965, nearly 15 million viewers, or one-half of the television viewing audience, tuned in to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas. It has become the longest-running cartoon special in history, but it almost was cancelled before it ever was aired. You see, the […]
August 25, 2010 By Louis Avallone – Kim Kardashian “Totally Fine” On Her Own Nation Breathes Sigh of Relief as Vienna Girardi Starts Dating Again Okay. I admit it. I did not already know that Snooki had recently been arrested for disorderly conduct in New Jersey last month. Or that Vienna Girardi, from “The Bachelor” […]
July 8, 2009 By Louis Avallone – When is saying “no,” really “yes”? Let me explain. If you are like me, you probably find yourself saying “no” more often these days than usual. “No” to continued deficit spending by the federal government, “no” to government-run health care, “no” to higher and higher taxes, “no” to […]