Forgive and forget
Deer Park native Andy Pettite was one of the heroes of the Yankees' world series winning team. Pettite, as many of y'all remember was implicated in the Mitchell Report as using illegal performance enhancing drugs. Pettite promptly owned up to cheating.Alex Rodriguez was another of the Yankees' heroes in the

My daughter and I
Last night my oldest daughter got sick. To be on the safe side, my wife and I decided not to send her to school today. That left us in a quandary because my wife teaches at the local community college on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and I had to be in court this morning.So I made the executive decision to take my daughter to work with me. After we dropped off my youngest at school we headed out to the west side to the Justice of the Peace court on Clay Road for a traffic ticket case. This particular court is one of the busiest in the state -- and one of the slowest.My daughter brought her Leapster and sat in a chair at the front of the cour

Why doesn't this surprise me?
According to the General Accounting Office the federal government is unlikely to recoup our full investment in either General Motors or Chrysler. In order to make a full recovery, both companies would have to attain market capitalizations (number of shares X price per share) neither had achieved before their bankruptcies.Surely someone in the Treasury Department was aware of this at the time the bailouts were being rushed through Congress. The money the government cannot recoup now becomes a taxpayer subsidy of the shareholders of the born-again companies.In order to recover t

Being first has its advantages
A special shout-out is warranted for David DiSalvo, the author of the very interesting blog Neuronarrative for the material used in this post...Is there a psychological advantage to be first? According to Psychological Science, there is.

Zen and the art of lawnmower repair
This weekend I set out to mow the yard at our new house for the first time. Since I've lived in apartments and townhouses for the past 18+ years, I've never owned a mower. My parents graciously donated their old mower to our cause after we bought our house. They parted with it because they've used a lawn service for the past five or six years and the mower has just sat parked in the garage for that time.On Saturday I tried to start it up but could never get the motor to turn over after yanking on the cord. There was gas in the tank and there was a spark plug in the cylinder and nothing was binding the blade. I gave up for the day and prepared for battle the next mornin