Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

The Olympic sendoff event at UBS Arena is no more. The Super Bowl Media Day-style event for the Olympic hockey tournament that was planned in lieu of an All-Star Game at UBS Arena is being canceled, an Islanders spokesman confirmed to The Post. ESPN’s Emily Kaplan was the first to report the news. The Islanders are still slated to host the 2027 All-Star Game and skills competition, though it will have far less gravitas for being in between the NHL’s return to the Olympics and the 2028 World Cup of Hockey. The 2026 Olympics sendoff at UBS Arena has been…

In this blog, I introduce a fallacy to the list of “Cardinal Fallacies” in Logic-Based Therapy. I call this fallacy the Fact-Loading Fallacy because it involves embedding a value judgment (often unintentionally) in a premise of emotional reasoning that is supposed to report a fact. This fallacy can conceal, augment, legitimize, and sustain the self-disturbing effects of other fallacies in people’s emotional reasoning. According to Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), people upset themselves by making self-destructive value judgments based on irrational or fallacious premises. LBT thus helps people to replace such fallacious emotional reasoning with rational reasoning, that is, reasoning that does…

A Saw knockoff starring Jackie Earle Haley as a murderous Chuck Woolery type? An intriguing selling point, but frustrating in practice. Your Host tries to wrestle with cancel culture in the entertainment business while also slathering audiences in gore, which never gels together. Director DW Medoff has a secret weapon in Haley, who does his best to lead Your Host as an enigmatic John Kramer-y emcee, but Joey Miller’s screenplay isn’t properly calibrated. All the “killer gameshow host” bits are aces, and yet the story stumbles through its conflicts, rendering Haley’s showtime dramatics as afterthoughts. Your Host is a single-location…

The historic crown jewels snatched from the Louvre Museum in a daring, lighting-fast heist Sunday are worth more than a staggering $100 million, a Paris prosecutor has revealed. Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau told a French radio station Tuesday that about 100 investigators are hunting for the four slick crooks who broke into the world-famous Paris museum and made off with a trove of irreplaceable treasures worth about $102.1 million, or 88 million euros, before fleeing within 7 minutes. “This sum is indeed extremely spectacular, but we must remember that this damage is economic and that it is in no…

Hamas still has some 20,000 fighters and access to thousands of weapons, including missiles that can reach deep within the Jewish state, according to the Israeli military. The Israel Defense Forces said that despite killing more than 22,000 Hamas militants and dismantling its hierarchy and infrastructure over the last two years, Hamas has replenished its numbers, the Times of Israel reported. The IDF also believes that Hamas has access to thousands of small arms and hundreds of short-range rockets, with some of the missiles capable of hitting central Israel. The Israel Defense Forces reports that Hamas still has approximately 20,000…

Police in a sleepy Maine town are searching for an “older” man accused of snagging $7,400 that fell off the roof of a stranger’s car. The week-long manhunt, headed by the Kennebunk Police Department, was sparked when an airhead driver mistakenly left the hefty wad of cash on the roof of his car before driving off on Oct. 15. Police in Maine are searching for a man accused of stealing more than $7,000 he found on the side of the road. Kennebunk Police Department The driver had just sold a car for $7,400 in cash and was apparently so distracted…

Most of us grow up believing that conflict is the enemy of love. We imagine that a good relationship is one in which partners rarely argue, never hurt each other’s feelings, and spend most of their time in harmony. But in real life, the couples who last don’t avoid conflict. They learn how to use conflict as the very material that strengthens their bond. As couples therapists—and as a couple who has weathered our share of storms—we’ve learned that conflict can actually be the healthiest thing for your relationship—if you know how to move from rupture to repair. The Myth…

The news that journalist Olivia Nuzzi — who allegedly had a sexting affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — has written a tell-all “blindsided” the MAHA leader and left his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, in “a state of shock and distress,” one insider told The Post. According to the sources, the controversial Secretary of Health and Human Services, 71, and the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star, 60, “fear the revelations” that could be coming in the secretly penned memoir by Vanity Fair magazine editor Olivia Nuzzi, 31, will revive last year’s embarrassing scandal. “Bobby and Cheryl initially went through marital hell last year…

A wooded location? A hoodie wearing masked killer with a knife? Young adults in peril? It’s all here in this Tubi original, Glamping, a slasher coming to the free streaming platform on Oct. 24. What begins as an influencer’s dream cabin getaway with her friends soon unravels into a nightmare when a masked killer crashes the trip.  Glamping actress, writer, and producer Rosemary Idisi, won Tubi’s first-ever Stubios Greenlight Contest. Idisi was selected from a competitive pool of finalists and received the highest fan support during the program’s beta phase, reflecting the growing demand for authentic, underrepresented voices in film and TV.  “I’m…

Hamas’s military wing is set to release the bodies of two more slain Israeli hostages Tuesday — as Vice President JD Vance warned it will take time to retrieve the remains of all of the fallen captives from Gaza. There are still 15 hostages’ bodies in Gaza, including those of two Israeli-Americans: New York native Itay Chen, 19, and Omer Neutra, 21, of Long Island. Israeli demonstrators gather in Tel Aviv last week to demand President Trump ensure that the bodies of all the hostages are returned from Gaza. REUTERS Vice President JD Vance said the US is committed to…