Some assembly required? I'm down with that
Navigating to Google, I type 'Famous people living with chronic pain.' This is no simple task, since I am lying on the floor, unable to straighten, one hand clawing at the keyboard. My lower back, lit...
View ArticleA job by any other name - is still a lot of work
'This is really happening: Snoop Dogg is no more,' allhiphop.com reported Thursday. 'That's right, the lanky, 6-foot-4 gangsta rap icon is dead. Ok, maybe not 'dead' dead - just reincarnated,...
View ArticleWant to make it in Trenton? Name a highway off ramp
'In conclusion,' the Cato Institute has written, 'the fall of Rome was fundamentally due to economic deterioration resulting from excessive taxation, inflation, and over-regulation. Higher and higher...
View ArticleTo err is human. To admit it? Too much to ask
'Mr. President ... you're entitled as the president to your own airplane and to your own house, but not to your own facts,' Mitt Romney told Barack Obama during their first presidential debate in an...
View ArticleCOLUMN: How did utilities do? We're still 'assessing the damage'
My favorite moments of air travel are those after takeoff and before landing, when the world stretches out in miniature. Smoke curls from tiny smokestacks, par-3 holes dot patches of golf course green,...
View ArticleGood citizenship begins at home - and everywhere else
The opportunity to be a good citizen - informed, involved, protective of your democratic rights - is presented at many everyday junctures: at home or in the office, reading the newspaper or attending a...
View ArticleWe're on a crusade for access to public records
At the start of my career, I had to research local real estate deals and property tax assessments. I spent a spent a lot of time in the offices of the county board of taxation, sifting through years of...
View ArticlePsychics predict the world didn't end yesterday
This column's headline - actually published in an American newspaper - illustrates the difficulty in understanding some predictions.
View ArticleFLACHSENHAAR: For Best Original Delivery, there's no competition
By now, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil, composer and lyricists of 'Suddenly' from the film 'Les Mis,' have downed a few bottles of champagne. Adele Atkins and Paul Epworth,...
View ArticleFLACHSENHAAR: Video skills? My bravado might have met its match
In the 1989 fantasy-drama 'Field of Dreams,' Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham winks at a White Sox pitcher in mid-windup, and is rewarded by a fastball aimed at his head.
View ArticleJames Flachsenhaar: The five-day winter forecast? Run for your lives
Numbness, fatigue and poor coordination? Slurred speech, impaired mental state and difficulty concentrating?
View ArticleFLACHSENHAAR: In some secluded Rendezvous, love at first sight
The first time I saw her, she was killing time in a parking lot. She was beguiling. Provocative and saucy, too. In the heat lamp of the summer sun, her skin shimmered and danced with bronze with gold...
View ArticleFLACHSENHAAR: Jughandle bill: Where the rubber meets the sky
It has been suggested, by state Sen. James W. Holzapfel of Toms River, that the days of New Jersey's jughandles should be numbered.
View ArticleFLACHSENHAAR: Just when did our food chain go to the dogs?
When the fur settled at the 137th annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Banana Joe V Tani Kazari, a 5-year-old Affenpinscher from the Netherlands, was honored with the best in show award.
View ArticleFLACHSENHAAR: Hold the phone, because I'm not buying a new one
They are left on restaurant tables, on the back seats of cabs or in jeans tossed into a dark load.
View ArticleEarth to Congress: Learn to share, learn to lead
It used to be easier to share - reminded as we were by parents, grandparents and other upbringing stakeholders that selfishness was not a societal best practice.
View ArticleFLACHSENHAAR: Living in a material - and sequestered - world
It was hard, but I recently dialed my core body temperature down to 96.6 degrees. While it's frigid at night - when normal body temperature drops of its own accord - it had to be done.
View ArticleEven government can't save us from ourselves
'Soda ban faces long battle ahead,' read a headline this week, after a judge rejected the New York City Board of Health's proposed prohibition of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces.
View ArticleFlachsenhaar: On the road again - but with a little more style
It's been a while since I bought a nice car for myself. For starters, expenses - college tuitions, premiums for insurance of all varieties, the mortgage, property taxes - kept getting in the way.
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