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Ed Puskas

Everyone just take a deep breath

Everyone else is doing it, so I feel like I should write something about President Donald Trump. Here goes, but first a disclaimer: People who like Trump might become triggered by what follows. People who don’t like Trump may also be triggered. As someone I used to work for once said, ...

Thanks for everything, Big Chuck

When someone finally gets around to inventing a time machine, I know when and where I’m going. Others will want to take care of the big stuff — killing young Adolf Hitler, saving Abraham Lincoln, JFK, MLK and RFK and preventing 9/11 — so my time-travel goals are less ambitious, but they ...

A stupid human trick caught on video

Somewhere on one of my social media accounts is perhaps the only video evidence that I once did something really stupid. I’m not giving away the platform because as I write this, just a few select people know that this short video exists. No, I didn’t have someone film me beating up a guy ...

Sooner or later, the Browns will be good … I swear

The Cleveland Browns taught my daughter to swear. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. In 2000, The Princess hadn’t even turned 2 yet, but she had already spent more than enough time in a room with her father to get an idea about the frustration that comes with being a Browns fan. ...

What’s the deal with all the polarization?

Given the events of the year that just concluded, it’s no wonder that the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year — announced early last month — was “polarization.” The dictionary folks weren’t suggesting that it’s getting too cold. Quite the opposite, actually. This polarization has ...

Food for thought: Raisin a ruckus about resolutions

It’s almost that time of year. Fresh off a month or more of holiday binge eating (and/or drinking) from Thanksgiving to Christmas and into the New Year, we catch an unfortunate glimpse of ourselves in a full-length mirror and realize we’ve gone off the rails. Perhaps way, way off the ...