Don Seaman

The Less Than Zero-Sum Presidency Nothing New Here, Just Another Paul Revere Moment The sheer, brazen cheating on a national level is astounding. But it’s not surprising. As state legislatures …

Scenes from a 2025 Christmas “Due to economic realities of the past few fiscal quarters, I have to announce the regrettable decision that there will be no deliveries this year,” according to a …

September 11, Two Decades Later It was 20 years ago today. In a faraway time, that would’ve been simply Sgt. Pepper beginning to play. But today it’s the preamble to a far more somber event. It’s the anniversary of the September 11th attacks. It’s…

Imagine if you will, a time capsule. Inside there is one object: a flash drive with only one thing on it: one song that represents the entirety of the 1980’s. One single song that encapsulates a decade. What song is it? Yes, there were many, many…

When I found myself with an obscene amount of vacation days in December, I wondered what I might do to fill my schedule. By the end of the year, my brain tends to need a reboot, so I was looking to re-energize myself with something that would give my…

Bringing up teenagers has always been hard. But if you try really hard to screw things up, you’ll find that in the end it’s all been worth it. Here are 11 ways to successfully make their lives hell. Teach them something. This can run the gamut from…

I often think of my dad’s last day. We lost him unexpectedly just before Christmas 12 years ago; he’d passed away in bed after the briefest of illnesses. As he got himself into his bed, how could he have known that his feet would be leaving the…

Here we are at the 19-year mark of the attacks of September 11, 2001. It remains one of the most horrific intentional peacetime attacks on an unsuspecting population that the world has ever seen. 2,977 people died as a result. We continue to pause…

Never mind the politics. Let’s fill in some history before you go to the polls. I’ve been a lifelong resident of the NYC market. I’ve had the opportunity to see the prolonged actions and attitudes of the man who is now the 45th President of the…

Now that we’ve distanced ourselves from distance learning, there’s a stunned hush in the air that’s slowly being interrupted by silent screams of “what just happened???!” The natural thought process of any formerly sane parent would be “what’s going…

My child must feel trapped. He’s home, in his sanctuary, but his life is nothing but homework. He’s like the rest of us, working with home with no limits on his “work day”. But as a middle-schooler, he’s neither equipped for this reality nor choosing…