Why do I not care for the characters in Sopranos?

Why do I care for Iago more than Tony S?

Is it because I spent 1/3 of my life in Essex Co NJ and went to high school with guys and gals who remind me of Soprano characters?

Why do I cheer when one of these psychopaths gets whacked?

Do I need a 12-step program?

Inquiring minds want to know.

The appeal of this series just baffles me.

My late wife saved her wedding gown in a plastic bag.

Why? Because that's what brides did in 1963.

Approx 10 years later she found that it had yellowed severely.

She threw it out with nary a blink of an eye.

I really feel for this kid.

I wanted to be a dr in 1955, got a bachelors, but did not have the grades for med school. Something like only one in 10 premeds make it to med school.

It takes a quick study and prodigious memory, not to mention superb health to put up with all the hours studying, being on one's feet.

So why not do something in the medical field, but something less academically demanding? My niece is a nuclear med technician. It takes only a BS and she makes $95,0000 per year. That's what doctors used to make.

Don't know if I'm using the right technical language, but the problem with this reverence for DNA -- and fingerprints -- for that matter is that wrongful convictions are posssible -- even probable -- with partial DNA or partial fingerprints.

A technician will get on the stand and proclaim a match with the defendent when, in fact, he's just "extrapolating" from a partial sample of DNA or partial fingerprint.

So, ironically, this science that that liberated men from death row may be the tool for sending more innocent men there.

Worse, it will create a false confidence that the conviction is valid because it's based on something "scientific".

Yep, doesn't take a shrink to figure out that this guy is a manic depressive -- er, bi-polar.

Shows how personality and intelligence are two separate spheres.

If a person really wants trouble in life, try enlisting in the military with a manic depressive personality. He'll end up court martialled for something said or done impulsively or dead or both.

This guy needs medication, but the revelation of that might make him medically ineligible.

I recall these morons on construction sites in NYC harassing women -- yes, and men, too -- only with men in suits it was things like, "Boy are you ugly!" That's because, according to blue collar lore, men in suits are not "real" men like them.

Want to have some fun? Challenge them. Humiliate them. "Hey, asshole, want me to talk to your wife, daughter, mother that way?" Or, "Take a gander, limp dick, and go play with yourself."

If you're a woman tell him you'll come back with your father, the police sgt, who just might walk him away in irons.

Harrassing women like that has got to be about as cowardly a form of behavior a man can indulge in.

Ah, c'mon, all this analysis and intellectualizing to pretend they just plain despise people of color.

$3 million ain't what it used to be. If LW isn't careful, he and his wife will piss that away faster than s*it through a goose or epsom salts thorough a widder woman.

Something like half of all lottery winners are broke in about 2 years.

I wonder if this money if pre tax or post tax.

If it's post tax, LW et ux would be wise to put the money into very safe instruments that give them an income for life.

A retired prison guard acquaintance of mine who has guarded both male and female prisoners over 25 years told me that only 10% of males in prison will practice homosexual acts, but 90% of females will.

I suspect that the social "cost" of homosexual acts in prison is higher for men. For a man to be a "bitch" in prison subjects him to hatred, abuse, contempt -- not to mention physical injury and STDs.

Women, on the other hand, may be "going along to get along" and not pay as high a price as men prisoners.

The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a paper recently that showed that 2/3 of adults in their 60s and 1/2 of those in their 70s are still "doin' it".

Younger adults just cannot bear to visualize their parents having sex. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I'm the author of a published (not self-published) novel with a sex scene, mild by today's standards. I learned through my son that my daughter had a fit over it. Ironically, she's an ardent feminist and professional woman with a graduate degree, a husband and kids that are not the result of immaculate comception I'd wager.

Smarmy beyond words and his Big Russ schtick made me ill.

I'm average like most men.

In joking about size with two women I dated, both said they experienced men considerably bigger than average. Both also said it was more uncomfortable than fun.

Not exactly a scientific sample, I know, but it just might be representative.

Any man's death diminishes me and I don't send to know for whom the bell tolls, but I'll make an exception in Helms' case.

Wonder how many have volunteered to drive a stake through his heart -- er, hort -- to make sure the f**ker is dead.

A textbook psychopath.

("Sociopath" is falling into disuse according to my sources).

They're all the same whether they've killed one, dozens, hundreds or millions. They see nothing wrong with what they did.

Fallout in any organization -- military or civilian -- is from the top. Those who have the temperament, skill, education necessary to be successful elsewhere bail at the first opportunity. That leaves marginal types to be promoted to lead those newly inducted into the organization.