Give me a break! Category

“Survival Panic!”
What the hell is survival panic, you ask?
Well, apparently since our lives and economy are based on spending, you feel a void when you have to tighten your belt and spend less.  This results in “survival panic”, says Gaietona Vaccaro, who is a deputy clinical director for Moonview Sanctuary (?), where patients receive treatment […]

My sweat ate my iPod

In: Give me a break!

Yes, you read that right:
My sweat ate my iPod.
Well Ian, what is coming out of your glands?  Well, nothing spectacular.  Apparently, iPods weren’t meant for working out!  At least that’s what the guy at the Apple Store told me.
I bought my iPod a year ago, and had one of those bands that wrap around your […]

Channel 12 has this story on “Why Mercyhurst Helps Erie” by giving the city money in lieu of taxes.  As a non-profit, the school is not required to pay taxes, but they have given the city $500,000 over three years.  Gannon hasn’t given anything, and seems like it is being attacked for not doing so, […]

The Thought Police

In: Give me a break!, National Politics, Public Safety

Give me a break! Are things really that bad? When District Attorney Brad Foulk, in discussing the recent surge in crime in the City of Erie, stated that “punks” and “hoodlums” are not going to take over the city, one would think that he was discussing people who were breaking the law.
But no. […]

That would be an odd sight, but apparently it has happened, in a new weekly segment I am calling “Give me a break…”
The only evidence of this mismatched doggie relationship is a shot-up Chihuahua/Pit-bull mix named “Grandbaby”, who allegedly “came right for” an Erie police officer in a pack with other dogs. Now […]

About 'The People Demand It!'

Ian EnterlineI live in Richmond, VA and work as a firefighter, but I try to make as many trips back to Erie is as humanly and financially feasible.

Mixing Erie and politics can be dicey, but I'm gonna try to do it here!

 


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