To get our mind off of the election I thought we might have some fun today by offering a challenge to my blog readers - below is arguably the all-time greatest word puzzle ever, now there are no catches to this, it's an exercise in pure logic and I'll offer one hint...

Last night I was watching a clip from one of Barack Obama's campaign stops as he tries to pull the democrats' chestnuts out of the fire, wherein he told the adoring crowd that if elected, republicans would take away their Social Security.  But what the chosen one...

A tell in poker is an almost imperceptible variation in a player’s behavior or actions.  Perhaps it’s a change in facial expression, an eye-movement, a subtle glance, a hand gesture, or timing that gives information about the strength or weakness of the player’s hand...

Sometimes I revive old commentaries or concepts from my days writing for the Vail Daily to see if my ideas or notions are still applicable.  And today I’m going to focus on a no-brainer that was quite a bit of fun to write.  It’s about an economic system that has...

The older I get the more I find myself thinking about some of the choices I made in life and how they have affected me to this day.  Why did I attend the University of Dayton and not De Paul University, and what would my life look like now if I had?  And how many of...

Before I moved to Vail some twenty odd years ago, my next-door neighbors in Denver had two sons, Tommy, and Kevin.  Tommy was your typical teenager, but Kevin was 30-year-old man who apart from his six-foot two-inch frame resembled an “adult” in very few ways – you...

Most of us have heard or read that the recruiting goals of the U.S. military are not being met.  And for whatever the reasons, this phenomenon has affected every branch of the service.  Unfortunately, though, the real problem is that the situation is worsening,...

Think about this for a moment, letting old people die is a lot cheaper than spending the kind of money required to keep them alive and well.  So, if a government run medical system is intent on saving serious money, it is almost certain to do so by sacrificing the...