Place The Three Stooges inside a 3 Ring Circus and add a long list of baseless accusations and conspiracy theories that can't be proven because they lack facts. This sham is lead by someone who likes to describe himself as a law and order guy who rarely follows the rule of law. A so-called religious individual who plays golf on Sunday, breaks the laws of the land and sows chaos, and enjoys confusion. Lame-duck Donald counted on the courts to deliver him a win. He lost after the courts said no deal.

The tumultuous year 2020 framed what promises to be one of the most challenging year-end seasons in recent memory.

With the pandemic still disrupting our daily lives, high rates of joblessness, the echoes of a divisive election cycle, and newfound urgency driving national discourse on civility. Front-line and health care workers are American heroes.

The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected an 11th hour challenge to Joe Biden's election as president. #SCOTUS ruling came in a one-page order, which said the complaint was denied "for lack of standing."

Political corruption is believed to be the most prominent in positions of power. However, over the centuries, corruption has changed so much so as to not match a particular definition, perpetually growing and more difficult to specifically define. 

With Over 15,000,000 cases, more than 3,000 deaths in a day, and increasing economic devastation, how many Americans died today? What was done today to make that number less tomorrow?

What is wrong with a person who said "I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

They say the good die young and talented younger. I began my career as a student intern or The Washington Post. But my first really great paying job was at NBC, NY, where I worked for nearly a decade. I was there the night he died.

Years later I took one of my journalism college classes to Strawberry Fields on the 30 anniversary of his death.

When I first moved to City Island, A Slice of NYC Paradise I found a small and quiet seaside village but I had no idea there would be so many knuckleheads living here who would eventually refuse to protect others and themselves by wearing masks. An old-timer who was born and died on the same street warned me that many of them had moved into our island. Captain Ed explained that according to local tradition, anyone actually born on the island is known as a "clamdigger". A City Island resident not born on the island is known as a "mussel-sucker."