The unique perspective and provocative opinions of Joe O’Neill
Telling Signs
“Stay out if you have diarrhea.” That’s what the sign by the fountains of the new Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park says. It’s there at the request of state officials. … But people need to be told this?
Larry Platt, 63, is now an internet sensation. The black, civil rights veteran’s audition video for “American Idol” has hit YouTube. His original rap parody, “Pants on the Ground,” satirizes those given to wearing their pants outlandishly low and admonishes them to pull them up. …But people need to be told this?