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    If your not familar with the game the object is to pick an actor or movie and try to tie it to Kevin Bacon in six moves. In this one I'll give you six people or organizations and you try to guess what they have in common with Kevin. Its a tough one so I'll give you two chances to uncover the connection.    What ties Kevin to these six people or things? Rolling Stone Magazine American Trauma Society Beyonce St. Louis Rams National Spinal Cord Injury Asscociation Danny DeVito     I told you it was a tough one so here's six more with ties to Kevin. Jack Nicholson Levi Strauss & Co. Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine Tara Lapinsky (former Olympic ice skater) Ben & Jerrys Ice Cream Vinnie Testaverde (former NFL quarterback) *Bonus Clue National Asscociation of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers    The following organizations have lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of dir...

    I'm thankful to you, Christy, Jim, Alice, and Robson Walton, for showing the American people that even though your worth $106 billion (more money than 40% of the country combined) you can still be greedy bastards.     Look, I've never given a rats ass if people wanted to get trampled, peppered sprayed or spat on the day after Thanksgiving, I just looked at it as the price you pay for being an idiot. But why do you have to bring your freak show onto a day that shoulp be set aside for introspect. A day to give thanks that, if for nothing else, no matter what, we're all better off than many others.     How did this brilliant idea get started anyway? Did you get a little bored after dinner last year? Couldn't wait until midnight to see the little people morph into the worst that people can be?     But, when it comes right down to it, the Waltons, and the people...

    Well it's only been a day and I've already been called a "moocher" by Rush Limbaugh, a member of the "wanting something for nothing club" by Glenn Beck and part of a society who just want "stuff " by Bill O'Rielly. That's just those whose names I know, their callers were all saying the same thing, its just more of the 47% bullshit again.     There are 17 states in this country who turn a profit, by that I mean they put more money in the government kitty than they take out. New Jersey is the most profitable. For every dollar they give the gov., they get $.61 back. Meaning $.39 go to others states.     The other 16 states who turn a profit are, in order,Nevada, Conn., New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York. Are we noticing a trend here? Colorado, Mass., Washington, Mich., Texas, Florida and Oregon. 16 of the 17 states who turn a profit voted for President Obama, Texas being the only profitab...

    Well today is the big day and if there's one thing I'm pretty sure of is that my life won't change all that much no matter who wins.     I live in a community that survived the last Wall Street meltdown quite well and is now almost where we need to be to be an even better community. We can handle whatever is thrown at us.  And our Mayor,our city council and our county commissioners are all Dems. Go figure.     I'm not a woman, so I don't have to worry about keeping the right to make the  ultimate decisions in my life.     I'm not gay, so I don't need to worry about having to live my life as a second class person because a verse from a book written by people who thought slavery was good and the world was flat, says that's the way it should be.     I'm not the gay person serving his country that'll be shamed back into the closet.     I'm not the military person who'll be put i...

I wanted to just put a link to this story but you can't read it without a subscription so I'll paraphrase the article and credit those responsible.     From Time magazines Rana Foroohar, its a story titled The Columbus Comeback: Ohio's capital moved beyond partisanship to become a model for economic growth.     When the recession hit, Columbus was faced with cutting $100 million from the budget, 15% of the total operating budget. Mayor Coleman used mandatory furloughs, he closed 12 rec centers, reduced our trash pickup (for a year we had to pay for our yard waste removal) but it wasn't enough.     Per Coleman, "We were at a crossroad. If I cut more we were going to have to lay-off 1,100 public workers, including firefighters and police. I'd be compromising public safety and contributing to the unemployment. It was time to ask ourselves, what kind of city do we want to be?"     Coleman went to the local business communi...