Author Archives: Ed Kowalski

This is a difficult email to write for me. Many of you who follow my Facebook blogs know that I have written extensively on the clerical sex abuse scandals that, all too often, have been widely publicized. Most recently, I published the letter that I wrote to John Cecero SJ about his letter that identifiedContinue reading “Father Hoefner”

I have a very good young friend who is struggling with feeling lonely. A talented, attractive person who is going through what we all go through regarding finding the ‘right person’. I’ve tried to convey to her that we’ve all been there; The danger for young folks with new relationships that, sometimes, end is thatContinue reading “Spring and Young Love”

Of all the things that I have been asked to do in life, today I was honored to be asked to deliver one of this year’s commencement speeches at a local school. Seems that the school’s Headmaster, who has listened to me on Tom Sipos’s Hudson Valley Life Show, feels that I may have somethingContinue reading “Congrats and Good Luck”

“Please don’t be afraid of me”, the man said when I was seven or so and sitting on the ‘stoop’ of the building that my family and I lived in on 83rd street in Manhattan. I was terrified. He had a hard time getting the words out; his body twisted in spasms as he walkedContinue reading “PLEASE DON’T BE AFRAID OF ME”

Here are a few words and phrases that liberals use all the time that are conundrums in as much as the words themselves actually say just the opposite of what liberals mean by them. “You should be open minded.” This means you should agree with liberals and be closed to everything else. “Pro-choice.” In actualityContinue reading “LIBERAL TRANSLATIONS”

In its continuing efforts to expose what’s going on in NY State’s Family Court, the Families Civil Liberty Union continues with its summary of horrific tales of Family Court Judges. LORI CURRIER WOODS (Supreme Court, Orange County): Woe betide any parent who questions or appeals this wellspring of rage. Woods’ weapon of choice is toContinue reading “Corrupt Judges Make The Other Ten Percent Look Bad”

A large portion of the Democratic party’s present animosity toward the Electoral College is rooted in rank partisanship. Since they watched their supposed “blue wall” evaporate in the small hours of the 2016 presidential election, many Democrats have felt sufficient anger with the system to seek to remake it. This habit has by no meansContinue reading “DEMOCRATS NEED TO GO BACK TO COLLEGE”

It began in 1871 as P. T. Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome, back when Prussia was still a kingdom and Jesse James was robbing banks. It survived the Depression, two world wars and the new media of its time, including radio, film and television. But on May 21, the world’s most historicContinue reading “Still Missing The Greatest Show on Earth”

Truth, justice, selflessness. Superman meant all these things to me. To me and to any young boy Superman is more than a mere character in a Sunday strip from some long past decade. And more than just a blot of ink on a page. Because what is Superman? One of his fellow compatriots described himContinue reading “Superman….We Still Need Him”

Run a list of bad behavior. You can multiply it if no father is around. Higher chance of committing a crime. Higher chance of getting hooked on drugs. Higher chance of winding up poor. Higher chance of landing behind bars. Higher chance of depression. Higher chance of suicide. Higher chance of violent behavior. And theContinue reading “The Horror of Family Court”

I had an exchange with a cousin of mine, yesterday, regarding one of my FB posts. Now this cousin is as smart as they come and is someone who has devouted his life to his community and his teaching profession. They don’t make ’em better than he and I’m blessed that we share the sameContinue reading “Can’t We Just Get Along?”