-1951-1960 from Planck's Constant Archives

Posted on January 23, 2011 10:00 PM

Inside was a friend of his, a young girl also my age. Juan asked me to drop my pants and underwear. Now I have to tell you, I was neither embarrassed nor did I feel that something bad was going to happen because I trusted Juan. I recall thinking this was some kind of game and so down went my pants and underwear.

Read the Rest: I almost Had Sex at Six

Posted on January 20, 2010 12:20 PM

Obama: CHANGE - cause that's all you'll have when I'm done

Now that the Democrats have lost Ted Kennedy's seat and vote in the Senate, they will need to figure out how to ram the HealthCare Bill down our throats using even more secret meetings and backroom deals.

Read the Rest: Jack Cafferty Calls Obama a Liar

Posted on September 1, 2009 08:15 PM

When I moved from New York City at age 7 (1952) to Bayonne, New Jersey, I was supposed to go into the second grade. Sadly, the first grade in New York City schools at that time did not cover spelling or even the alphabet. It seems the school administrators in Bayonne knew this because they asked me to spell apple.

Read the Rest: The Meaning of Bridal

Posted on April 23, 2009 08:36 PM

When I was fourteen years old (1959) I used to hang around in the Village spending most of my nights explaining the origins of the Universe to a small crowd who would gather at the Cafe Wha? to hear me. I vaguely recall my lectures, basically rehashing theories I read in physics books and embellishing those with my imagination at the time. What I do remember quite clearly is that almost every week some listener would ask me if I had read "The Fountainhead."

Read the Rest: Medical Marijuana Misery

Posted on September 15, 2008 02:07 PM

I went to Catholic school for the fourth grade and it was then that I made my Communion (yes I am an atheist Jew who made Communion). I tried to get out of it by reminding my teacher, Sister Melody, that I was Jewish; I still had to go, according to her, "Don't worry - it's good for you." Earlier in the year I tried the same tactic to get out of Catechism classes and attending mass.

Read the Rest: First Confession

Posted on August 17, 2008 09:54 PM

It was 1955 and I was 10 years old when I first saw him come into my father's ladies' shop with his smudged shoeshine box filled with a half dozen assorted cans of polish...

Read the Rest: Nickel Willie the Shoeshine Man

Posted on March 14, 2008 04:31 PM

If it said "Made in Japan" it was junk. Buses were a nickel and you could pay in pennies. People picked up pennies in the street. All the dimes and quarters in your pocket were 90% silver.

Read the Rest: My Birthday 63

Posted on February 27, 2008 03:08 PM

When I was 12 we acquired an albino German Shepherd puppy, a breed known to be superb animals as to obedience training, however, as we were later to learn,

Read the Rest: Albino Dogs and Mutant Religions

Posted on February 26, 2008 10:50 PM

Here I am at 19 (1964) - had I any acting talent and a great amount of luck I might have been a hollywood heart throb. My son went on myheritage.com and got this widget to amuse me.

Read the Rest: I could have been Leonardo DiCaprio

Posted on February 4, 2008 02:47 PM

If you ever visit Typhoon Lagoon at Disney World and see an old white man lying in the shade of a tree, his feet covered with socks, his body draped from ankle-to-face with towels, wearing a waxed-cotton explorer's hat and sunglasses, that's me.

Read the Rest: Why I do not Go Naked Into the Sun

Posted on January 29, 2008 05:27 PM

The global population will peak near 7.5 billion around 2040 and begin to decline thereafter. However, Muslims continue to have a high birthrate and so, in a few decades after 2040, we can expect the world to be majority Muslim.

Read the Rest: The Italian Firemen

Posted on September 28, 2007 02:51 PM

It is interesting to note that Russian papers usually makes light of the US' War on Terror and at the same time criticize Putin for not paying enough attention to international terrorists.

Read the Rest: There is no truth in the news and no news in the truth

Posted on September 18, 2007 08:19 PM

In our primitive past, and I am only going back a mere few centuries, people did not tolerate other people's culture or beliefs. It was enough that you were different by only a scintilla of coloring or hairstyle or language or smell.

Read the Rest: Freedom will always Offend someone

Posted on July 9, 2007 09:22 PM

My father grabbed me by my shoulders, and here I was ready to get an especially wicked beating, judging by the redness of his face, the bulging in his eyes, and the fact he was losing his voice, and then, quietly, with restrained agony, gently told me that this particular flag was a symbol of a great evil that destroyed almost every single living relative of ours.

Read the Rest: War ends in Germany on this Day

Posted on July 3, 2007 09:37 PM

I was 5 years old when my mother first started going to the original Copa in 1950. The one that just closed on West 34th Street was but a mere replica of the original on East 60th Street.

Read the Rest: the Copacabana will never close

Posted on June 22, 2007 10:08 PM

Several months ago, scientists at Europe's annual human reproduction conference suggested that the results of a recent analysis revealed the presence of female hormones in beer, and suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption.

Read the Rest: Beer will turn Men into Women

Posted on June 15, 2007 05:59 AM

in today's not so innocent times, if a mother leaves her children in the car for two minutes while she's shopping, she is liable to lose her kids to foster care and get sued for child neglect.

Read the Rest: I Never sued my parents - Roy Pearson Case

Posted on May 5, 2007 05:12 PM

One of the reasons that liberals believe in Global Warming and that the destruction of the World Trade Center was planned by our government and that Bush lied about WMD's is that liberals need to have a large selection of conspiracies in order to live their desperate, pathetic, unpatriotic lives

Read the Rest: The Nylon Deception and Liberal Conspiracies

Posted on February 17, 2007 04:11 PM

I remember the first week when Sister told me that I had to register for Catechism classes on Sunday as well as show up for mass. I brought up the point that I was Jewish and so perhaps was exempt from those two activities. Eh, she didn't buy it.

Read the Rest: Malvy - the 8th Deadly Sin

Posted on January 31, 2006 03:38 PM

My family moved to Bayonne, New Jersey when I was 7 years old (1952). I have lived here since then except for a few periods (1965-1967 in Israel, and 1984-1990). I would like to share with my readers some facts about Bayonne.