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
What is Memorial Day about again? 2008-05-22 14:04:32 Unless you count the ubiquitous war coverage in the media, I don't have much of a personal connection to the military, or, by extension, to the pure point of Memorial
Day. The closest thing are memories of my late... Read more:Memorial Day
Will liquor be quicker? 2008-06-10 09:30:51 Some state legislators are working hard to have New Jersey join 45 other states in allowing large grocery chains to sell liquor
in all of their stores. According to a law adopted in 1962, grocers are allowed only two...
Dad behavior 2008-06-13 09:52:22 My kids and I were picnicking in our local dog park -- the kind New Jersey is famous for -- when we overheard an argument between two men, clearly strangers. Their volume was rising as if someone was controlling...
My lottery tale 2008-06-16 10:44:42 I'm proud to say that, this morning, I benefited New Jersey's "education and institutions." It only cost me six bucks, and I was done before 9:00 am. How did I manage it? Well, it took a little faith, a...
Planets lost and found 2008-06-24 15:16:49 More of the Worlds "It is most probable that there are many other planets present: not only super-Earth and Neptune-like planets...but also Earth-like planets that we cannot detect yet. Add to it the Jupiter-like planets already known, and you may... Read more:Planets
How to beat the airline blues: Fly nice! 2008-07-25 11:24:14 Don't Be a Dummy It all began as I waited for the first of two connecting flights that would bring me from my home in New Jersey to a business conference in Palm Springs. Across from my seat, a young...
Revering summer camp...or maybe just the memories 2008-07-17 12:45:54 Happy Campers For a period of time in the mid 1970's, my parents signed me and my brother Paul up for summer camp in our hometown of Smithtown, New York. I don't remember how many years we attended, or even... Read more:memories
Who do you trust when your child's surgeons give conflicting advice? 2008-08-04 09:42:31 In the fall of his fifth year, my son started complaining of brief but blinding bursts of pain in his head, which the pediatrician diagnosed as tension headaches. My ex-wife was skeptical, but I believed the doctor, falling prey to... Read more:trust
, child
What reality television can do for the Olympics 2008-08-18 15:18:58 Reality television show producers, proudly noting they invented the concept of obscure Americans competing in skimpy outfits for glory and lucrative contracts way before the Olympics
came around to it, are capitalizing on Olympics fever by throwing out their... Read more:reality
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