The profession of plumbing, for most of us, is a mystery. There may be things we want to know from plumbers, but there are actually plenty of things that plumbers want us to know, too. I climbed into ...

Jay Leno: “John McCain got some good news today. ‘The Charleston Daily Mail’ endorsed McCain, saying since he’ll only be a one-term president, he can do the right thing to make tough decisions. When ...

Bob Plitt has seen things that would chill the blood of most men. He is on the front lines of a never-ending battle against the forces of evil. Where others fear to tread, Bob Plitt plunges bravely ...

Unsavory on a good day, the labors of a plumber are sometimes just too much. “You wouldn’t believe the way some people live,” mine said, chuckling after I apologized for the stack of magazines near my ...

When I think back over the more than 1,000 columns I have written, one of my funniest lines was pretty paltry. It wasn’t even a full sentence. It was a dependent, hyphenated clause about The Plumber ...

YOU HAVE ALL heard the analogies — "You charge like a plumber." Or the old plumber jokes where the punch line is, "I never made that much either when I was a brain surgeon." Comical or not, there is a ...

Mayor Bloomberg is running for reelection as the only man who can save the city, but a roomful of worried New Yorkers at a recent Brooklyn forum weren’t convinced. They were homeowners worried about ...