Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to read more

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a read more

How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.

I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on read more

I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.

I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed, I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and read more

I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed, I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and I should have stopped more pucks.

It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a read more

It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a good way to get a point but a bad way to lose.

We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids read more

We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids have a lot of heart, and our goalkeeper (Patch Skinner) is playing with a lot of heart at the goal. He's going to give it his all if the players in front of him do. We have just one shot to shock the Silver Division, and we want to do that.

He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When read more

He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When he got to 8 or 9 years old, he was a heck of a basketball player, baseball player. He had drive. He just liked to win. That's his motivation, to win.

That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems read more

That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems with their size all weekend. The one key difference was their size because we got out-strength a little bit. I thought we had five to eight scoring chances thwarted by them because they we just stronger than us.

I watched my father being slowly crucified by it.

I watched my father being slowly crucified by it.