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Welcome to Boom Boom’s Room. Pull up a chair.  However, it’s recommended that you sit on the edge of your seat.  Why?  It’s because today’s world is very polarized and driven by emotion and spin.  Too often people are either for or against something and their minds are closed.  Robust discussion and great debate, once …

In my best Al Pacino voice, ” let me introduce you to my two little friends, Lefty and Shorty.”  More on the WNBA finals that you didn’t know about in a minute. Way way back in 1964, or 5, or 6, or 7 I frequently made a Sunday PM trip to the Gulf Gas Station …

First things first.  Do you know what a college or NFL survivor pool is?  Of course you do.  Like the board game Chutes and Ladders, skip the next seven bullet points.  If you don’t, please read the brief explanation below. You pick one team only each week. That team must “survive” or win for you …

One of the many gifts that Boom Boom gave us was the torrent of quips about how one leads one’s life.   He could say so much by saying so little.   A statement at just the right moment resonated in my young, eager eardrums.  How I interpreted or applied it was up to me.  No more …

“Brother what a night it really was…..”  So goes the lyrics to the mid seventies song.   Brother, what a weekend this past one was in the Windy City.  Just 75 gunshot victims.  Seventy-five.   Twelve unfortunate people lost their life.  TWELVE. Well, at least the city’s finances are solid.  Well, they used to be anyway. …

Maybe, just maybe, I am getting a bit older and a tad bit crotchety.  Probably.  Ok, I am.   I think what I think.  My lifelong love of genuine, inspirational, sport competitions make me wish for the old days.  It was a day when you could go to an event or tune in on TV (only …

MSN, which isn’t one of my favorites, has this Stormy story.  She fears life won’t be normal anymore.   I assume that is because it was so normal prior?  What, pray tell, was her first clue? The circus that is American culture and politics reaches a new low on a daily basis.

1. If you are a college football fan (and if you aren’t what is wrong with you?) and you wait roughly 243 days (who is counting?) for your favorite team to begin the 2018 season hope springs eternal in the early fall.  And then the game begins.  And then mercifully it ends.   If you are …

The Big Lead tells you all you need to know about the dark Brown’s past.

Texting while driving can be deadly.  Texting while walking isn’t much better.  You’ve seen the videos.  Unfortunately people do dumb things while fixated on their smart phones.  People walk into anything, anywhere, anytime when distracted.  But, walking into traffic or crossing a street illegally is a bird brain thing to do.  If a cop in …