Archive for June, 2006

Letter to readers

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Summer has arrived and as I write this heavy rain is pouring over Queens. The sky is pale orange and John Kerry has become my least favorite Senator. He is only a nose ahead of Santorum, who mounted a heavy charge this week by announcing that the discovery of some degraded pre-1991 mustard gas in […]

Martinelli on Sports and 50 Cent

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

First, I want to warn against seeing “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” staring Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. I’m probably about two years late on this, but anyone who might have considered renting the movie or even watching in on TV should make other plans. I was not so lucky.

With the Yankees taking the night […]

Second-degree burns, my conservative streak and Hillary’s chances

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

It has been just shy of three weeks since my legs were horribly burned in a beach accident. There are still flakes of dead skin in my bed, under my desk and strewn about my living room. These flakes, just to clarify, do not resemble dandruff. They resemble what is left after a snake sheds […]