Stephen A. Smith is the best sports commentator in America.  You just aren't used to the best.

This is the way of American business - cutting costs means laying off employees.  Cutting CEO salaries is off limits.  This conservative philosophy that only the rich count and workers be damned is the reason the people can only depend upon government to solve the unemployment crisis in America.  FDR knew that 80 years...more

Hey, Bernie, how's the chow?  Ha,ha,ha!

Y Free, the last thing in the world I want to do is go to one of these doctors.  He'll want to put me in a hospital for tests, and then I'll end up dead for sure.

Skybolt, I take my hat off to you.  I'm 67, and I can barely get out of bed in the morning.  I'm thinking about leaving the country too, before all my money dries up.

I'm 67, and I doubt that I'll ever see 75, much less 85.

Great point, Stan.  I brought up the same thing.  I can buy black market cigarettes for $5 a pack in Chicago, whereas it costs me $11 a pack in the store.  Long live the black market!

Don't forget cigarettes.  You don't have to pay excise taxes on black market cigarettes, and those taxes make up over 50% of the price.

Trucker Tom, I was only trying to show how screwed up our justice system is.  They ought to give the old guy a medal.