Tom Bodett, who will leave the lights on for you, said, “The difference between school and life is that in school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test; in life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Graduates, how far you go from here on depends upon learning something from...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, socialite  and former beauty queen, who was married seven times, once said, “I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.” That’s not chump change to, say, Zsa Zsa’s second husband, Conrad Hilton, but the average Joe doesn’t have an international chain of...

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Where would modern feminists be without political correctness?  Perhaps a better question is where would women in general be without it?  Certainly a lot better off.  Women, as opposed to “womyn” (a form of the word favored by feminists that uncouples the m-e-n in “women” which liberates it from patriarchal connotations) are far too...

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The thing that makes culturally thematic jokes funny is that they have an element of truth to them.  Add a dollop of exaggeration, a dash of derision, and the ability to laugh at one’s self, and there’s a good belly laugh waiting for someone.  My favorite jokes are ones whose punch line rely on...

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The average number of children in an American family is 1.83 which means the chances that a kid today will have a brother is only about 20%.  A shame, really. Bad enough that divorce has distanced dads (often contrary to dad’s best efforts), but the double wammie is that today’s boys are often absent...

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Chief of Staff,  Rahm Emmanuel: “Mr. President, sorry to disturb your golf game, but there has been an unsuccessful plot to blow up a Northwest, Amsterdam to Detroit flight.  The suspect is a Nigerian National, one Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and the attempt was thwarted by fast acting, vigilant passengers on the plane who put...

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A guy’s car beaks down in the middle of nowhere.  He walks to the nearest town, a small bump in the road, where he rents a room for the night and wanders to the only bar in town where the good ole boys have gathered.  One of the ole boys stands up and shouts,...

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I just got the call yesterday.  “Emma’s red blood cell count is perfect.  Let’s take her off the meds completely and monitor every three weeks.”  It was less a champagne moment than a silent, guarded relief over her having slipped the noose on an auto immune disease that almost took her away from me. ...

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I believe that some liberals have a double whammie of hypocrisy to account for: one, their lack of consistency in a standard that applies to conservatives (but never to them or their own kind) and, two, their colossal intolerance while portraying themselves as the tolerant ones.  It’s the self-anointed of any proclivity who seem...

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(To read part one, click on “other posts by Jerry Fino” at end of column) Our what-ever-happened-to (insert name here) had us reaching out to old fraternity brothers via Facebook.  We found a few of the guys, called one in Chicago.  This was all a ramp up to “slide night.”   In college I...

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So it came to be that decades after graduating from college, we three came together in my city, a reunion weekend of sorts. All graduates of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, all fraternity brothers (Sig Ep).  Having tried to plan this for years, it just never happened.  Instead, it took one to commit to...

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“It’s about having choices in your life, Tara, and the only way you have choices is to have better paper than the next guy.  I didn’t invent that, your parents didn’t invent that.  That’s the way it is.  The more inferior or non existent the paper you have, the fewer options you have.  The...

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(The author is the force behind www.menandmarriage.com) The following is from last week’s news cycle regarding Attorney General Eric Holder launching a witch hunt against our own CIA over the issue of interrogating: *CIA interrogators racked an unloaded handgun close to the head of a high-value detainee, and revved a power drill while the...

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(The author is the force behind www.menandmarriage.com) “Air Venice- Nice Wheels” I used to work in the travel industry. As a tour manager for a sizeable, upscale Midwest based tour operator, I spent much of my twenties jetting all over the world leading tour groups from Sidney to Sturgis to Stockholm. Intense travel and...

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(The author is the force behind www.menandmarriage.com) My, my, this is a troubling matter. On one hand you have a distinguished Harvard educator, Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. and, on the other, Sgt. James Crowley, a Cambridge, Mass. cop. By now the incident surrounding these two is well known. A white cop appearing...

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(The author is the force behind www.menandmarriage.com) Eleven score and thirteen years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a nation made up of people who wanted nothing but to live as free people, to earn an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay, to be both free from the oppression and...

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(The author is the force behind www.menandmarriage.com)    “I just don’t get it,” said my friend John.  “We’ve had a million fights over this, and nothing changes.”  John and Melissa have been married for over twenty years. In that time they’ve had a million fights over the same thing. “She thinks the money I...

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In Guyland we don’t take too well to good women being defiled, repeatedly, publicly, no matter what their political persuasion. David Letterman and his recent escapades and borderline personality disorder fixation, given his incessant running down of Sarah Palin and her family, can best be explained by saying this: David Letterman is a punk....

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Last weekend was the anniversary of the D-Day invasion when, on June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. It involved more than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft that saw more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers killed or...

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  (The author, Jerry Fino, is the force behind www.menandmarriage.com)  Well, then what the H-E- double-hockey-sticks are you?   Interesting convo with a young lady the other day.  Considers herself a feminist but is also a fiscal conservative, embraces solid family values, likes men, doesn’t feel oppressed, dresses like a girly-girl, has no rage...

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