Hoping on Hope

Not sure you heard, but Barack Obama becomes the nation’s 44th President today. He is the most popular man in the world right now, and to think that one year ago he was just an inexperienced, relatively unknown Junior Senator entering a Democratic race as big a longshot as the …

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St. Parsimonious Day in Hoboken

par·si·mo·ni·ous: exhibiting or marked by parsimony ; especially : frugal to the point of stinginess. And that’s the only word that comes to mind when chronicling the events of St. Patrick’s Day in Hoboken: Deep Recession Edition! Lines were shorter or non-existent at many places that once saw lines as …

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Valentine’s and other February Deliberations

What more can be said about A-Rod besides wondering what brand of pink lip gloss he’s wearing? The ambiguous third baseman took the only route he could by admitting to juicing six years ago. Just look at the scorecard: Bonds, Clemens, McGwire: All disputed claims of steroid use. All now …

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Budget on a Diet

It was a dark and stormy night. Ok- so I’m totally ripping of Snoopy’s opening line for all of his novels. But the intro here is accurate in regards how each day and night will feel on my month-long excursion into saving money. The aforementioned excursion began on the Friday …

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