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  (Not so) Happy Mother(les)’s Day   Today is May 11, 2025. Today is Mother’s Day, a made-up “holiday” created by greeting card, chocolate and flower companies to sell more product than they would normally sell on the day – a day around 3 months after another made up holiday of Valentine’s Day. Don’t get me wrong, I am not opposed to a special day for our Mothers. The same goes for Fathers, Veterans, and every other group that has their own special day. But just like Mothers, Father, Veterans and more – we should honor them 365 (or 366) days of the year, not just one.   But today is a very bittersweet day for me and my family. That is because at 10:19 pm on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, my mother, Louise Schuman, passed away, leaving behind her husband of 62 years, 3 children, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, a grandson, 2 granddaughters and countless family members and friends. It has been almost 7 weeks since her passing, and not a day goes by that we don’t miss her. We ...
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  Bob(bing) for the “Truth”   On August 26, Bob Barker passed away, less than four months shy of his 100 th birthday. When the list of all-time greatest game show hosts is made, if Barker is not #1, he is not far from it. Barker hosted game shows for over 50 years. Most people know him for the 35 years he hosted “The Price is Right,” from 1972-2007. What most people DON’T know is Barker got his start as a game show host in 1956, with the show "Truth or Consequences,” something he did until 1975. It was a show where people did some crazy stuff as you can see from a few clips here:  To be on the show you had to be 18 years old. Every so often, they made exceptions. My brother and sister are twins, with my brother one minute older. You will be hard-pressed to find two people more completely opposite than these two. If you didn’t know they were siblings – you would never guess that to be the case. I get in trouble for saying this, but: I am 100% sure if they were...
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  Two Days…Four Decades   By…Erik Schuman   Ten years ago, today, was Monday, June 11, 2012. Big deal you may be saying. Who cares about this one random day of the year? A day approximately midway between Memorial Day and the start of Summer.   THE MOST LOYAL, DEDICATED, DEVOTED FAN BASE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CARES! For it was on this day 10 years ago that “45 years of Cubs on Skates” ENDED!   It was on this day 10 years ago THE LOS ANGELES KINGS WON THE STANLEY-MOTHERF*****G-CUP FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!   It was on this day 10 years ago we no longer had to hear the dumbest and worst fan base of any team outside of Atlanta boast they had a Cup, and we didn’t. We did hear from this JV NHL team that plays across the street from that city’s baseball team how they got theirs, FIRST. And they are right. But knowing how that baseball team plays in “Los Angeles” while the team further North plays in Anaheim – who cares what they think. But th...
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