Joe’s Journal

Yale’s campus newspaper is being criticized for censoring a pro-Israel columnist by removing what it called “unsubstantiated claims that Hamas raped women and beheaded men.” ...

A Texas high school principal is defending himself after he says he was told to remove an anniversary photo from Facebook following complaints from parents. ...

A 13-year-old girl was called “despicable” by her teacher at a Church of England school in the United Kingdom on Friday after asking a classmate ...

A Maryland court ruled this week that parents cannot opt their children out of lessons featuring inclusive LGBTQ+ books on religious grounds, stating that families ...

In the small town of Freedom, Wisconsin, Buzz’s Pub and Grill –  has been short-staffed since the pandemic. Jeff Baker, the owner, says he “could ...

Elise Stefanik bucks Mayor Adams, wants chocolate milk offered in all schools This puts a whole new wrinkle in the school choice debate. Upstate New ...

I believe Mr. Pittman is correct, but radio is changing and consolidating with old formats being phased out. In the New York market rock radio ...

An angry traveler has shared their frustrations over a woman who had “the audacity” to request a seat swap so she could sit next to ...

The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is moving to revoke the liquor license for the Hyatt Regency Miami over a drag event the hotel ...

A popular Italian restaurant in New Jersey will be saying no to children under the age of 10, banning them from the restaurant starting early ...

A massive painting of Jesus on display in the US Merchant Marine Academy in New York has been covered by a curtain after objections that ...

New York Republican Rep.-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to lying during his campaign about his work experience and education, according to reports. Santos, who ...

Anti-Defamation League chief executive officer Jonathan Greenblatt took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize the comedian and the NBC late night show. “We shouldn’t expect ...

A Vermont middle school soccer coach and his daughter say they were both suspended for complaining about the presence of a transgender student in the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) — Gov. Kathy Hochul says New York State is aiming for zero-emission vehicles by the year 2035. She directed the state Department of ...

In the debate over the divisive concept bill which could change the way topics considered controversial are taught in public institutions.  There are moments in ...

Rocker Pat Benatar‘s recent setlists are missing one of her most popular songs: “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” The reason, she told USA Today in an interview ...

As soon as House Republicans passed a bill to block transgender girls from playing on female sports teams in K-12 or college, opponents started questioning ...

The Republican National Committee said Thursday it was withdrawing from the Commission on Presidential Debates, alleging that the organization was biased in favor of Joe ...

A Georgia high school coach was suspended after he defended himself and restrained a student who was in possession of a loaded weapon in school. ...

A Canadian high school principal loves Iron Maiden and posts about the band on social media. Parents started a petition to transfer Eden High School ...

Owners of a Kansas City area gun range accused of discriminating against a Muslim woman by not allowing her to shoot while wearing her hijab ...

 A plane passenger has sparked outrage online after a photo emerged of her long hair draped over the back of her seat. The picture, showing ...

The Rolling Stones retired one of their most popular rock songs due to lyrics that depict the horrors of slavery. The Stones have not played ...

A Washington state high school reportedly called off a student-led tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks after an unnamed staffer said ...

On Friday, Jenny Grondahl flew from Phoenix to San Diego, carrying a souvenir: a cardboard. It read “Arizonenses Con Biden” with a cactus and was ...

Experts reveal the fridge staples that are safe to eat past expiry – and some last for TWO YEARS Australian food scientists have revealed the ...

Florida’s governor has signed legislation that will require public colleges and universities to annually survey their students and staff about their beliefs and viewpoints in ...

HELBY, N.C. – For many students, prom is a pivotal high school memory, but for Isabella Killough, plans to celebrate a final time among her ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a controversial bill into law on Monday that critics say constitutes a direct attack on the First Amendment in ...

Late-night host and comedian Jay Leno has issued an apology for a series of jokes told over his career targeting Asian communities. The apology comes ...

Trump supporters are calling for a boycott over reports that Coca-Cola is forcing employees to go through racism training that teaches white workers to “be ...

One day after it became known that the Dallas Mavericks would not play the national anthem before their home games, the NBA said all teams ...

People in Washington state can now literally push up daisies after their death — as the first human composting efforts in the country recently began ...

A high school cheerleader had her college “dream” shattered when a black classmate arbitrarily posted a years-old video of her saying the N-word, her lawyer ...

Chris Kennedy’s Christmas display features a seven-foot Black Santa that stands tall in his yard along with a Christmas tree and a large shining sign ...

A third-grade pupil in Mississippi was robbed of her First Amendment rights when her school forced her to take off a mask that said “Jesus ...

                                                                HUNTER BIDEN Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) – A 12-year-old boy has been suspended for having a toy gun he never brought to school. Isaiah Elliott attends Grand ...

The ice cream truck jingle of your childhood is about to get an upgrade — and RZA is behind it. The hip-hop icon of Wu-Tang ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — On her Facebook page, Jeannine Lee Lake recently posted photographs of racist collectibles she says she photographed at U.S. Rep. Greg Pence’s ...

City employees began painting a stretch of Fifth Avenue, just in front of the Trump Organization’s headquarters, on Thursday morning. Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized ...

Two San Francisco-area elementary schools named after a pair of Founding Fathers who owned slaves will get new names after a school board approved a ...

An American Airlines flight attendant said she was forbidden from wearing a face shield because it didn’t fit with the company’s “image standards” — and ...

All of them got their licenses without taking an official road test. It’s Georgia’s way of handling the backlog of the thousands of road test ...

In a development that could challenge the Constitution’s prohibition of any law “respecting an establishment of religion,” the federal government will soon provide money directly ...

Alicia Hobson’s 11-year-old daughter, Azlyn, was counting down the days until the Valentine’s Day dance at her Utah middle school. That afternoon, when Azlyn got ...

The suit contends the school had no jurisdiction for off campus behavior. The parents of four Saline, Michigan, high school students filed a federal lawsuit ...

Asheen Phansey, a Babson College professor was fired for satirizing the Trump administration’s threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites. In Pansy’s post on his personal ...

As I am an expert on hangovers here is my tips to avoid them and then what to do. Please note do not drink and ...

Donald Trump Junior drew scorn on social media as he asked his 4.1 million followers to “Trigger a Liberal” by talking politics at the dinner ...

The coach of a New York high school football program was suspended for one game for allegedly allowing his team to run up the score ...

Students at a Wisconsin high school skipped class Friday and marched through the streets of the state capital to protest the firing of a black ...

Long Island comedian Mike Keegan has been banned from performing at Theater Three in Port Jefferson, New York over a tweet he made about Greta ...

On the show we periodically discuss health care. Davin and Pip take the side of Obama care and I take the side that it should ...

  I used to cringe when I heard the term of a comic being called an artist. An artist is someone who creates beauty and ...

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                              Last week Joe’s girl and I went to see Bohemian ...

I am thankful for Thursday. Not the one coming up that Americans call Thanksgiving. The one from last week that was a complete white shit ...

                                   Halloween is in several days and the big Compound party is tonight. The ...

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                                                              Since I was a kid, I would always dream of being in a recording studio making an album. For the past thirty years I ...

For eighteen years I have owned a cell phone, we live in a society now where we can’t remember not having one and there is ...

My long time band Rotgut played last night, we played all cover tunes and no originals. Gone are the days of the full show and ...

I got some sad news last week, the transmission in my Honda Element is starting to go and the heater is not working that great. ...

                                                             I was able to dodge the bullet for over eleven years, and then two months ago I got a questionnaire and then they ...

As our fans know Davin, Pip and I are all big music fans, we have gone to concerts together and they have come to see ...

                                            As one of ...

                     As I stated from the beginning from the time my old house went up for ...

When I left off in part four Joe’s girl and I pulled away in a red rape van from the only place I called home ...

If you told me five years ago that I would pull away from my house for the last time with Joe’s girl in  a red ...

As I was saying in part 2 the whole process in my life change is what I called hurdles. At this point of the game ...

                 During the whole part of my life changing ordeal there was so many frustrating moments in selling my house, such as the home for ...

This past April to June was the most stressful part of my life since the passing of my Mom twenty four years prior. I was ...

                                          WHY? I may have sold my house, we will see, as the propensity for things to go tits up as it has been pretty ...

It is now March and my house has been on the market since June of last year and I am at the end of my ...

                  Tuesday for me is usually a long day, I am up at six am and usually tired as band rehearsal was the night ...

For over a year I have been questioned why in the world would I vote for Trump??? My reasons are as follows, He has the ...

As a major rock fan and musician, the reunion of Guns N Roses is about as major as it gets. The impact they had on ...

Every July 4thfrom sunset until eleven pm it sounds like a war zone with fireworks.  But it always used to be me in my neighborhood ...

THE WEIGHT IS OVER” .In 2002 Al Rosenblum asked Camille Halpin and I to help him write a sitcom about weight loss. We would get ...

                                   As many people that listen to our show know I am in the middle of a major life change as I am now separated ...

                                                  This past Easter while people were with their families on a high holy holiday, I decided to go to the Auto show at Javits ...

On February second I became legally separated, it would have been twenty years in October we would have been married, but it just did not ...

                                           When I played in bands in my twenties we would always discuss if we ever had kids if they would love music as ...

For years I did not like the holidays, it was always something to deal with and get over with, but something happened this holiday, I ...

                                        The worst feeling in the world is when you just want to go home and you have to go to the super market because ...

                             After fifteen years the New York Mets are in the World Series. I can’t believe it’s been fifteen years, Fifteen years of ups and ...

This past July I had a wakeup call. For years I was told by my Doctor that I was a borderline diabetic and I finally ...

Last week’s blog was by Davin saying why Trump was a feel good and not the right man for the job. I feel he is ...

                                   I was not planning on writing the blog I am writing now. I was looking for something that was going to be the topic ...

We will be speaking to Amanda the physic on our show in regards to if our dearly departed are trying to reach out to us ...

 In classic rock magazine this month they dedicated most of the magazine to the most amazing records that were ever released on vinyl. A lot ...

Several weeks ago I posted this meme on my Face Book page one morning and then went to the day program. I went on line ...

This year will mark a very big event in my life, as of this year I have lived in the same place for fifty years, ...

I am so done with winter, I mean done I am sick and tired of getting up walking out into the second week of temperatures ...

In January I shared a picture on Face book that showed cartoon of a soldier in world war two under the caption of the greatest ...

There was a tragic story in the news about a young women named Brittany Maynard. She was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given ...

As I am getting older I find myself getting softer. If you know me I curse, drink, tell dirty jokes, and smoke Cigars, well I ...

It’s been a week since I have smoked. I have tried on many occasions but this Time is different, why?  The first incident was my ...

As a lot of people know besides being second mic on our radio show and a Comedian, I am also a musician. I loved music ...

As you may have heard on the show we make a lot of in jokes about my life off the show and do not go ...

Being the grouch I am, I’m getting less patient with the things around me especially people that I have to deal with that are non ...

Of my many vices and antics, the one vice I would like to get a grip on is smoking. I actually started smoking when I ...

On last week’s show we did a segment on a Georgia law that just was passed that made it legal to carry guns into bars, ...

Yeah, that’s right I am being punished, by whom you say, The Show? The club? The wife during my current marital situation? Well the answer ...

I use to be standup comedian.  That was the plan.  That was the career.  A little TV, a lot of touring, and a lot of ...

There was a study released by Reuters earlier this month on Comedians. In this study by the British journal of Psychiatry  said Comedians among other ...

It is my turn to write the blog this week and I almost told Davin I could not get to it because I don’t have ...

THE DAVIN’S DEN NOVEMBER TOUR.   Out of the year one of the things I look forward to is when Davin and I go out ...

As some of you may know the Fat Horse Challenge ended back on the August 27th show. What happened you say? Well the basis of ...

As most of the people know who listen to our show I am the Right Wing side of Davin’s Den.   When the Trayvon Martin ...

THE BEACH Living on long island is an expensive crowded place. One of the perks of paying some of the  highest property taxes in the ...

Well it is June and the Fat Horse Challenge has been well under way since January and I am down just about twenty pounds. I ...

To start, this blog is twelve hours past the dead line and two months ago I would never even bothered to call Davin and say ...

I have to get all my receipts together for my accountant this week to get my taxes done. After all the hassle I go through ...

So Joe came to us to help him lose weight.  He wanted inspiration via punishment.  I guess feeling better and looking better were not enough ...

CAT FOOD If you were on Facebook this past week you would have been treated to pictures of me eating cat food live on our ...

Last week if you listened to our show I was not on due to the passing of my Mother in Law. A lot of comics ...

When I was much younger I thought maybe I would like to run for public office.  I thought maybe I could even be President one ...

If you have read my last blog it was all about being in a different place in my life at the end of this year. ...

Goodbye 2012 hello 2013   As Davin is working in paradise, I have the task of writing the blog for the show. Personally I hope ...

As someone who has lived on Long Island all my life, we have been warned from all the doom saying officials about the big storm ...

Well President Obama won re-election much to the chagrin of a little less than half the nation.  I guess it is time we all rally ...

Last week we  had Comdian Rich Vos call in to our show in response to a segment he did on the ABC’s television show What ...

Half the fun of interacting with Mavis my scammer is that I keep baiting her that I will be into a lot of money soon.I ...

I apologize to Davin. This statement alone makes me cringe and want to jump in a wood chipper but it has to be done. A ...

When it comes to blogs it could be something for the show or about something in one of our livesthis will probably be both. On ...

Well I have been up for hours before Joe gets up.  He senses I am about to go for breakfast and rises from the dead.  ...

Are we on to something??: Last week on Davin’s Den we were discussing the latest exploits of Davin and his new Face Book Friend Agnes ...

My partner Davin has been having a fling with African women on our showfor the past several months on a bit we do calling out ...

Hello Everybody, I hope you are well.  It has been very busy here at Side Splitting Productions.  Last weekend we had a fun show for ...

Hello All, I hope you are doing well.  Fortunately, of late Side Splitting Productions comedy shows have been selling out.  Maybe the economy is getting ...