Bobby Seppo is a third generation New Yorker and a US Army Sergeant who has served two terms in Iraq. Though he is technically done his service, he just volunteered to go back and will be leading reserves in Afghanistan by the end of the month. This is a transcription of a conversation we had at a ...
Laughing your face off happens a lot more when you"re a kid than when you"re old. Remember those break downs in grade school when you"d have to hide your head behind a textbook because you were laughing so hard? Then the teacher throws gasoline on the fire by telling you to, "Stop ...
When people say "diversity is our strength" they must be talking about car insurance pamphlets because that's about the only place I see different races chilling out. They may be Photoshopped together from multicultural clip art but they are partying. Nobody can deny that. You also see a ...
The first thing many people think when they see the carnage going on in Mexico is, "What have we done?" Then they exhale and add, "If Mexicans are killing each other to supply us with pot, meth, coke, and heroin, our need for each must be through the roof." Finally, they butt out ...
The first and biggest mistake Americans make when analyzing the Middle East is assuming they are us. When France gave us the Statue of Liberty, we stopped making fun of them for a long time. When MacArthur saved Korea, a nation of Orientals began worshipping Jesus Christ. When the Ramones played ...
Can you believe Ronald Reagan said, “Government isn"t the solution. Government is the problem?” A politician spouting Milton Friedmanisms today is about as unlikely as another black president. It wasn"t an unusual quote for Reagan, however. He worshipped Friedman and also ...
I don"t know if you remember this but about 40,000 years ago, after we stopped looking like a redhead with cranial dysphasia and settled on homo floresiensis, we had a true best friend. His name was the Gray Wolf and we had a healthy relationship that involved working together, sort of playing ...
After 39 years of not being 40, I decided to give it a try. Being two score is unlike anything before it so I feel it would be prudent to warn you about a few things... 1) YOU DON"T CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK In my late 20s, I asked a cab driver what it was like to be 40 because that's what he ...
A wise old t-shirt once said, "If you don"t like this country, you should probably leave at some point." Another, even wiser piece of clothing then added, "When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." They"re both right. This country was built on rebellion and as an ...
The Freedom Riders did black Americans a great service by calling Kennedy on his bullshit and actually testing how abolished Jim Crow laws were in the South. They got their asses kicked, brandished firearms and fearlessly laughed in the president's face when he begged them to stop. They were ...
