I saw a guy pull this garrotte trick in broad daylight on the boardwalk in Asbury Park many years ago. He added enough comic banter to the routine to keep people from the calling the cops and/or ambulance. He was mesmerizing…

If you’re like most Americans, you’ve already forgotten 90% of what you learned in your 2 years of high school French or Spanish classes. That’s because most of us never had any reason to use French or Spanish in the real world. If our educators were on the ball - which they still are not - we’d all be learning Chinese.

This week Switzerland not only banned the building of minarets - spires typically found on Muslim temples - but went the extra step of putting the ban in their constitution…

Spoken language is a wonderfully complex mystery. Human’s can’t seem to live without it, yet the majority of us cannot speak to each other with 100% accuracy. Even within a language and even within a dialect, people are so lazy and sloppy with their words that misunderstandings are more the rule than the [...]

Dear Vin Scelsa,
Me and Razoo Kelley’s sorry we ain’t wrote to you lately. Snot that he nose any better, but Razoo kinda blames you. See Vin, member we used to write to you a lot way back before they called letters “blogs?” Well, one day Razoo heard you say we needed raison [...]