I grew up 20 minutes south of Baltimore. We used to chill at its Inner Harbor. The Constellation is docked there. I took some lady friends to a place called City Lights. Paddle boats. And the Aquarium. I haven’t been there in 17 years, immediately after our wedding and honeymoon. We had a Ford Explorer […]
Category: crime
Taking One for the Team
My dad was a beat cop and career FBI. I was preached the perils and uncertainties of law enforcement my whole life. You just don’t know what you’re about to face in a car stop or home search or raid. And, so the justification follows that police should be accorded some measure of grace when […]
Freedom Trail Reprise
I’ll plagiarize myself from a year ago. I can’t say it any differently: If you’ve ever been to Boston you’ve probably been forced to walk, likely by a mom or wife, some portion of the “Freedom Trail” against your will. You have to wonder why one must abandon so much self determination to walk a […]
Where I’m From
It’s sort of a joke among friends that I claim everywhere as my hometown. So, I’m originally from Detroit. Well, actually I was born at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor. But, we lived in Pontiac. For four whole years. So, I’m really from Pontiac. But, I claim all three. And, I’ve seen […]
PTA
Adam Carolla’s exhausting, howitzer-style commentary falls into one of three categories: 1. Wildly offensive, profane, vulgar, mysoginistic, borderline racist; 2. Non-lude/non-bigoted but still wrong; and 3. Pure-cane genius. I was never into what I surmised about his type of comedy. The Man Show. Crank Yankers. Love Line. More recently, Carolla has become a kind of […]
The Girls
I normally stretch to remember the humanbeingness of serial killers, rapists, and sexual predators. The easiest take is to call them Monsters. In just a few weeks’ time, we’ve seen the Ariel Castro plea and sentencing; heard additional allegations of another Ohio man holding three women; and, just the other day, learned news that a […]
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