by Butch Mazzuca | Dec 23, 2024 | Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
Sometimes I go back and review old commentaries from my Vail Daily years – and today I thought I would raid my archives and look for a story with a genuine message. I grew up during the 50’s in a middle-class neighborhood of row houses on the west side of Chicago;... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Nov 5, 2024 | American Life, Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
Today is Election Day and instead of speculating about the outcome, I thought to share some thoughts about outcomes of even greater import – life and how we live it. A Winner makes commitments—A loser makes promises. When a winner makes a mistake he says, “I was... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Aug 12, 2024 | Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
One of the most common complaints in the transgender debate is that trans-people are the subject of much bullying and harassment. I haven’t seen statistics on the matter, but I suspect there is an element of truth to that statement, but at the same time, I also... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Feb 5, 2024 | American Life, Life Lessons, Living Well, Other Interesting Stuff, Recent Commentaries
Every Saturday during the school year, and 6 days-a-week during the summer, from the 8th grade through my sophomore year in college, I worked for my dad and uncle in their mid-size grocery store on the west side of Chicago. Working in a family business has its plusses... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Nov 6, 2023 | American Life, Life Lessons, Other Interesting Stuff, Recent Commentaries
You may have read that the statue of Robert E. Lee that stood in Charlottesville Virginia’s town square for nearly a century has been melted down and will be remade into a new piece of public art. The statue, a source of controversy in the wake of the 2017... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Jul 24, 2023 | American Life, Life Lessons, Other Interesting Stuff, Recent Commentaries
Perhaps I’m beating a dead horse, but whenever I hear a liberal quote the NY Times I cringe, because to say it simply, the NY Times is not an honest purveyor of the news. Yet the Times has long been considered the ‘newspaper of record’ in the United States and for... Read More
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