It does not have one damn blasted thing to do with OCD or needing help. When you see red hand under the down blanket right after check-in and it is not yours or the maid's, you should be cautious. When drunken New Year's revelers have caroused in Northampton hotels, even though the room looks clean, you take precaution...more

You belong to a group (veterans) that is too cast off in this country. I bristle when I walk past the mural in the Atlanta VA of President Lincoln's establishment of the agency, guaranteeing lifetime medical care to the veteran, his widow and orphan. Not for years! The foreign aid should be reduced and veteran health, ...more

Addendum "To each his own." There is a NAAWP. I do not promote Louisiana's mostly substandard education system, but Grambling did have a white drum major. Minority colleges had diverse faculties long before affirmative action. I was annoyed that alumni of Morehouse protested a white valedictorian a few years ago. It w...more

1 of 2 My views are based on a crime situation, housing, and the current expansion that displaces many Black and Latino workers and housing in West Harlem. The former automobile plants in West Harlem had become viable businesses after they were closed and sold cheaply by the 1960's. There are FIVE generations of my ex...more

2 of 2 Initially, I was not going to respond, so  here goes. Columbia,  not Lydia Roberts is just as racist as it was in 1920 when Langston Hughes attended it as a high honours engineering student. He was not allowed to live in the assigned room at the new Quad dormitories when he arrived, light-complexioned and obvio...more

I was glad to read years ago that the late singer Sarah Vaughan took her own linens to hotels. Apparently, Demi has not read the online articles and slide shows about germs in hotel rooms. An expensive $100 to $200 or higher a night is no guarantee of cleanliness. Even your pillows at home should be washed, and then re...more

No indeed! This guy's wife was not a bitch or an a-hole. She was lower than any female dog or cat, or the backside opening of any animal. Whatever her ex-husband's actions, beliefs, words, etc., why keep a pet as part of a divorce settlement that you have no intention of maintaining a home and family life for? Fortunat...more

When you have to return merchandise to any retailer, label provided or not, there expense is still the expense of going to a shipper if no UPS, FedEx or DHL drop box is near where the customer resides or works. Obviously, any box over a few pounds and not small means going to have it shipped back. Yes, if you read the ...more

Target does NOT belong on this list. When our daughter moved from NYC to Atlanta for college, she bought an Igloo refrigerator at full price. Target sent a shabby used, return with a dent in the door from a return center in the NE. We got such a runaround from their headquarters in Minnesota, despite the prompt complai...more