I spent more than a little time this week preparing to share with you all the list of wonderful things I would do if I held a winning ticket to the record MegaMillions jackpot…never mind.
Alabama Arizona Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Mississippi Montana Nevada North Carolina Oklahoma Oregon South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Washington West Virginia This is the list of states that still maintain a wild west mentality wherein anybody who feels threatened has a legal right…
The Occupied Movement celebrated its six-month anniversary yesterday, with hundreds, (maybe), returning to Zuccotti Park to remind those evil moneychangers that the Hippy Spring is not quite over. I don’t know if their new spiritual leader, Greg Smith, was in attendance, but, certainly, his “Network”-inspired manifesto had to serve as fuel to their fire. …
It’s not enough that I have to pretend that the economy is turning around and our military efforts in the Middle East have a purpose and Rush Limbaugh is entitled to freedom of speech and “Kony 2012” is a humanitarian effort and life is just a bowl of cherries…now I…
Harold Hill is smiling somewhere. The troubles in River City and so many other woeful towns have left many of us grasping at straws, (which prove to be quite yummy with a little marinara), opening the floodgates for scams by shyster traveling salesmen. Some of the hucksters come to town…
I always love Billy Crystal’s Oscar openings and I’ll be watching in anticipation tonight hoping that he might give a shout out to my Mom who will celebrate her 23rd birthday on Wednesday, (that’s 92 in leap years). Mom shipped boxes of her infamous cookies and pastry to the scoring…
As the world gawks at the last spectacle in the tragic and too short life of Whitney, any outrage toward the culpability of pharmaceuticals will quickly dissipate as self and assisted medication is prescribed to cope with facing the anxiety of such heart-wrenching sadness. Do we simply not care that…
The ink was barely dry on the Declaration of Independence before all kinds of folks started lining up to get their piece of the “all men are created equal/endowed by certain inalienable rights” proclamation. In hindsight, the rhetoric of a few, powder-wigged elitists, as magnanimous as they may have seemed,…
Just to make sure that it’s perfectly clear to all of the bible-thumping, right-to-life-lobbying, holier-than-thou religionists who believe that the United States of America and all of the people in it must subscribe to their specific catechism or burn in hell: please note the symbolic separation between the two nouns…
The engaging and highly entertaining backward glimpse at the chain-smoking, hard-drinking, chauvinistic ad men, (and women), of the ‘60s may seem nostalgic and quaint, but, in fact, it portrays the tip of a nation-sinking iceberg as seen in our rearview mirror. Advertising, and television advertising in particular, which began in…