Owner: NJ Voices -- Joel Schwartzberg URL:http://blog.nj.com/njv_joel_schwartzberg/ Join Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:36:14 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: A-musings about New Jersey culture from an award-winning humorist and essayist. Affiliated with the Star Ledger, NJ's largest newspaper. Site statistics:Click here
All I don't know I started forgetting after third grade 2007-10-01 08:35:43 You know that book "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"? I'm thinking of scribing a new book: "All I Don't Know I Started Forgetting After Third Grade." Consider the subjects taught within eight months to... Read more:third
Coulter: Jews need 'perfecting' 2007-10-11 09:31:01 Counter Coulter
Even in a world of hype and hyperbole, broadcast idiocy, and exaggerated rhetoric, some media-caught moments still boggle the mind. Such is the case when right-wing mouthpiece Ann Coulter showed up on "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch"...
Are our docs failing us? 2007-10-11 08:00:23 M.D. Promises? The New England Journal of Medicine reports today that American children are getting, on average, only 46% of recommended care during pediatric visits. This follows a 2003 study finding that adults receive, on average, only 55% percent of...
A trans fat ban? 2007-10-09 12:30:06 Newark is considering a law that would ban the city's restaurants from using trans
fats among their ingredients. Councilman-at-large Carlos Gonzalez's proposal is modeled after one New York City historically passed back in 2006. It barred the Big Apple's nearly...
Adieu Continental, Hello Izod 2007-10-04 13:48:00 In Zod they trust! The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) has unanimously declared Izod the winner of the "Who Wants a New Jersey Stadium That Will Soon Have No Pro Sports Teams" contest. Izod put the beat down... Read more:Continental
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ALA's Ten most challenged books of 2006 2007-10-04 07:45:06 The Most Banned Book Every year, the American Library Association -- a vicious group of radical, in-your-face revolutionaries if there ever was one! -- puts together "Banned Book Week". This year it ends on October 6. The week's highlight is...
Why we don't mind Uncle Sam listening in 2007-10-19 08:13:07 Look who's listening! Recent revelations and consternation about the government's strong desire to eavesdrop on our calls and emails have me wondering if there's a federal agent somewhere listening to such fascinating things as "I'll be home soon", "Is The... Read more:Uncle
Isn't every day Boss Day? 2007-10-16 08:00:13 Today, October 16, is "National Boss Day," according to my company-reimbursed desk calendar. Wikipedia describes it as "a day for employees to thank their superiors for being kind and fair throughout the year." When you finish laughing, read on...... Read more:every
No more "idiots" voting in NJ 2007-10-15 13:02:05 Block the Vote Sunday's New York Times ran a story about a 163 year-old New Jersey law still on the books that prohibits an "idiot or insane person" from voting. According to the article, the Garden State is one of...
Beauty on the beast 2007-10-24 08:00:30 I ran out of shampoo this morning. That may not sound like a big deal to you, but it is to me. You see, I bought the industrial-sized Costco "salon-style" shampoo eons ago. When I first placed it on... Read more:Beauty
Halloween: Too many chills for children? 2007-10-22 08:25:46 In 1976, my mother, a devout fan of the horror genre, took her two kids -- ages 8 and 10 -- to see Oliver Reed and Bette Davis in "Burnt Offerings." It was a dubious parenting decision, but in truth... Read more:Halloween
Mismanaged care 2007-10-26 11:20:53 Is there a marketing executive in the house? If you've ever waited on hold for health insurance coverage information; been denied a medical referral, treatment, or medication; or been forced to leave a trusted out-of-network doctor for one who still...
Looking back on Halloween's annoyances 2007-11-01 08:31:46 Evil teens and their hard-living ways Now, with Halloween
behind us, it's time to focus on the truly annoying things that happened on Trick-or-Treat night: 1) Roving gaggles of teenagers who come out after the princesses and Power Rangers call...
NJ's father-and-son ghostbusters 2007-10-31 08:08:53 "Who you gonna call?" I have no real ghost stories. Some good dejà vu moments, for sure, but no collisions with actual apparitions. I once had a late-night out-of-body experience, but maybe I was just sleep-walking to the bathroom. My...
Bridge, tunnel, PATH: Fair increases? 2007-10-30 15:34:11 Take it EZ! The Star Ledger reports that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to raise tolls at tunnel
s and bridges, as well as PATH fares, after the election. According to numbers crunched by the Ledger,...
NJ Hall of Fame: the unnamed oversights 2007-10-29 08:08:01 Last week, Governor Corzine announced the 2007 inductees into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. They'll join the past....uh, well, actually this is the first-ever New Jersey Hall of Fame, so judges had many Garden state roses to choose from....
Corzine and the device squad 2007-11-05 09:22:13 That's the ticket On Friday, Governor Corzine signed a law that allows New Jersey police to ticket people for using cell phones while driving. Let's call these cops the Device Squad. The law, which goes into effect in March, is...
Blogs, Votes, and what YOU Decide 2007-11-02 12:51:03 To the Best, Most Visited, Most Popular, Most Clicked, Most Heavily Marketed... Let me start off by making a full disclosure: This blog was nominated for a "Best New Blog Award" by the 2007 Web Blog Awards, "the world's largest... Read more:Blogs
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Should NJ ban the bag? 2007-11-09 09:09:24 Ban the bag, or bag the ban? New Jersey's neighbors are starting to get some bag ideas. Last spring, Brooklyn Assemblyman Bill Colton took -- or recycled -- a page out of San Francisco's book, proposing a ban on most...
NJ dogs & cats: gimme shelter! 2007-11-07 09:39:21 How often do you get to hold Virtue in your hands? A sweet little kitty who purred and pushed her soft pink nose through thin metal bars as if to say, "love me, love me," Virtue is one of many...
A car buyer's tale 2007-11-16 08:16:01 Buy or Buh-Bye? I thought I was buying a new car last night. I knew my preferred colors (anything but white or champagne - this isn't Florida); I knew my preferred options (third row seat, cup-holders, light-up buttons that make...
2007 Best of the best 2007-11-13 10:39:39 Listing Season has begun, that time of year when media organizations start compiling their "Best of the Year" lists, because we Americans know that things count for very little unless they can be deemed superior or inferior to something...
At Halftime, Remember the Pilgrims 2007-11-21 21:30:35 "Do you know who's playing this year?" the Whole Foods checkout girl asked me as she scanned my breadcrumbs. My girlfriend and I had just pre-ordered an 18-lb turkey and were making our first-round Thanksgiving food run. "Excuse me?"... Read more:Halftime
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Christmas-loving Jews: Robbing the dreidel? 2007-11-30 08:40:08 Workers adding ornaments to the Penn Station Christmas
tree, 11/28/07 We're less than a week from Hanukkah, the arguably third or fourth most important holiday in my religion (depending on how much you like prune hamentashen), yet I'll admit it:...
NJ schools: Lockdown lowdown 2007-11-27 08:34:52 Happy Days? For half a century, school students haven't needed to learn the infamous "Duck and Cover" drill. In fact, my only association with it comes from newsreel footage of kids with clothes and hairstyles so dated that they're back... Read more:Lockdown
Answer to gun violence: Arm mall shoppers? 2007-12-06 09:45:31 As Glock would have it... From a press release sent to me this morning pitching a talk show guest: When a senseless tragedy such as [yesterday's Omaha mall shooting] occurs, the world scratches its head, and asks, "Was this necessary?"...
New Jersey's great mental health 2007-12-03 08:42:28 In a New Jersey
an's brain, the BLUE area is focused on family hassles, the RED area indicates thinking about lunch or the Devils, and the ORANGE area is devoted to finding a parking spot. No room for depression. Our nation's... Read more:mental
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Emission not accomplished 2007-12-20 08:36:00 Exhausting our options Seven months ago, Republican Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jodi Rell, discouraged by the Federal Government's inaction on global warming, co-wrote a Washington Post op-ed that told the Environmental Protection Agency to partner with them in their...
NJ: Absolutely "pro-life" 2007-12-19 09:30:12 You bet! Contrary to what the pundits and political know-it-alls say, New Jersey may be one of the most aggressively pro-life states in the country. Consider what we did in 2007: • On Friday, New Jersey became the first state... Read more:Absolutely
New Year's PREsolutions 2007-12-17 09:20:17 Weight, weight, don't tell me I haven't been so good to my own body lately. I'd like to blame the French toast, the mocha lattes, the pizza, and what I call the vast buffalo wing conspiracy. But the blame really... Read more:New Year
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