Author Archives: Ed Kowalski

So this afternoon, at work, my colleague Jessica asked how long it’s been since I graduated high school. “43 years”was my reply, quickly followed by my statement that there are more shorter days ahead of me than the longer ones from my past. She was more than kind and told me that wasn’t so untilContinue reading “Thoughts From an (almost) 103 Year Old”

Jefferson Crowther, the father of 9/11 hero Welles Crowther, a Boston College graduate, known as “the man in the red bandana,” died Feb. 13. He was 73. The cause was prostate cancer, said Alison Crowther, his wife of 47 years. He is also survived by his daughters, Honor Fagan and Paige Charbonneau, and their families.Continue reading “A Red Bandana Reunion”

Well, St. Patrick’s Day is almost here. My grandfather, Patrick McLoughlin, left Ireland as a young man to seek, what he felt, would be a better life here in the US. Family stories, told to me as a child, portrayed a young man, the eldest in his family, being walked to the train by hisContinue reading “Happy St. Patrick’s Day”

More than three decades of Mafia peace has been shattered by the murder last night of Gambino crime family boss Francesco ‘Franky Boy’ Cali. Cali, 53, was shot six times and run over by a pickup truck outside his redbrick house in the upmarket Todt Hill neighborhood of Staten Island. His wife and young childrenContinue reading “Let’s Make Him an Offer He Can’t Refuse”

The college admissions scheme revealed Tuesday is the largest of its kind ever prosecuted, federal prosecutors said, and features 50 defendants across six states, millions of dollars in illegally funneled funds and a handful of the country’s most selective universities. But at its core, the alleged scheme is remarkably simple — and brazen. Cheat onContinue reading “Cheat Bribe Lie Your Way Into School or Buy a T Shirt”

With all the recent speculation about whether or not Joe Biden will run for president, I ran across this headline quote from my friend, the late Roger Ailes. I met Roger almost 10 years ago through my work on a political campaign in Putnam County, NY. My candidate was in a nasty race and ourContinue reading ““I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.” Roger Ailes”

A good rule of thumb is that the more pious the progressive, the worse the hypocrisy. And behind every successful glass ceilling breaking Dem running on feminism and fumes, is a creepy male aide. Senator Kamala Harris had her #MeToo problem. Now it’s Senator Gillibrand’s turn. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the most outspokenContinue reading “Do as I say, not as I Do”

When I think back over my career, perhaps the strangest and most difficult 10 years I spent was the time that I was working at Electronic Data Systems (EDS). A big, fast paced company where your worth to the organization was measured everyday and if you were not producing or lucky enough to be pickedContinue reading “See you again, Greg”

San Francisco decriminalized public defecation, but criminalized plastic straws. While bench warrants for public urination are discarded, the straw fines are real and expensive. A California statewide bill goes further with a threat of six months in the county jail for giving a man a straw. When drugs are legal and straws aren’t, the MexicanContinue reading “I left my ________ in San Francisco”