There is nothing wrong or immoral with being a successful business owner and millionaire like Governor Mitt Romney, a dream many Americans would eagerly choose if given the chance.

There is also nothing sinister about being a Harvard and Columbia scholar and Ivy school elite like President Barack Oba/… Read full post »

While most Americans think back on the attack of Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy more than 70 years ago,  they are immediately filled with feelings of unspeakable horror and justifiable anger about the infamous day that changed the United States forever.

This was a surprise attack on… Read full post »

For all of the unsung and sung heros who have fought so solidly, bravely and with humility for our young country , I salute and sing to you with tears of gratitude and without forbearance to you on this Veterans Day of 11-11-11. 

As each new day begins and then waxes bright… Read full post »

I’m confused, is Herman Cain a member of The National Rifle Association or The National Restaurant Association?

Aren’t you annoyed that the media establishment only refers to the NRA when they report all of these numerous allegations of sexual harassment?

I for one am getting f… Read full post »

Thousands of boys . . . too young

To drink hot alcohol in winter

Or cool beers in Indian summers

Die 

Boys who only a summer before had been

Playing basketball and mowing dewed grass

Sun-kissed and sweaty

That sweet sweat only a young man can boast

And… Read full post »

Until I was about four, I thought my first name was "Shuddup."

No kidding, and what's worse . . .  I learned to like it.

I'll never forget the sound of kids laughing at me at a Los Angeles playground when I told them 'Shuddup' was my name.

And this… Read full post »

Comedian Rita Rudner once said, “My husband and I are either going to

buy a dog or have a child. We just can’t decide whether to ruin the

carpet or ruin our lives."

Ruining one’s life and a child’s life is easily said and done, given the fact

that most… Read full post »

I am just waiting for "The Donald" to demand to see a copy of Osama Bin Laden's Death Certificate. Now that would only be fair. 

If a "live"  sitting president of our fair country was bullied into showing his Birth Certficate, why doesn't  Trump demand the see the Death C… Read full post »

No one should care if Donald Trump "ever" shows us his tax records as he originally promised since President Obama finally showed us his Birth Certificate. 

What have we become-- a nation of grammar school kids playing "You show me yours and I'll show you mine?"

And if you… Read full post »

Gloria Steinem once said, “The surest way to be alone is to get married.” 

While loneliness and “feeling alone” is certainly the case for many married women, the blame cannot be placed entirely on men. And to be completely politically incorrect, married men are lonely too… Read full post »

1. Neither one of them will go away

2. No one will ever ask either Sheen or Gaddafi for their hair stylist's phone numbers

3. While Gaddafi seems obsessed with the prospect of creating weapons of mass destruction, Sheen seems hell bent on creating self destruction on a mass level&n/… Read full post »

Look, I know we Jews are smart as heck and show-offs when it comes to medicine,  writing,  inventing, entrepreneur-ship, psychology,  producing, politics, filmmaking, comedy, and science. Must I go on?

I also know that we are often perceived as anxious, neurotic and comp… Read full post »

If you can recall the famous phrase during the 1960's Peace and Love generation "Never trust anyone over thirty," or were too stoned to remember, then health care reform is your new cause; and not to be fought with peace, but with total radical activism ... that is, if you want… Read full post »

Even feminist Gloria Steinem said, "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

Fathers matter more than ever, and anyone who doubts their importance has inevitably endured life without one.

One of the greatest lessons a child can learn in order to grow into a healthy and happy adult is that they are indeed not the center of the universe, whether it be the universe of their parents, or that of their own making.

A generation ago, children felt loved and… Read full post »

It's that special time of the year again when my family will gather around the menorah while simultaneously being reminded to take off our shoes and yelled at to start the rice.

Yes, it's the only kind of holiday I have ever known, a merry Bewish festive season, a word made up/… Read full post »

"Don't spend a lot of time with old people, they just make you feel older," my 96-year old grandmother told me at our latest luncheon.

After finishing off a large Caesar Salad and her second glass of Ice Tea, she stood and pointed to her new three inch caramel-colored Ferragamo heels… Read full post »

Woody Allen, worshiped by some and annoying to others for fearing everything but doing most of them anyway once said, "You can live to be a hundred and give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."

On the other hand he commented, "I'm astounded… Read full post »

Breaking News: Palin's Remarks at Second Press Conference not yet Broadcast

I have to be honest with y'all just why I stepped down as Governor. I'm in love with a moose and realized it when I just couldn't blast him to pieces with my new Smith and Wesson. Alaska and my… Read full post »

It's not easy being a Japanese Jew.

Recently two of my closest relatives, one Japanese and one Jewish, found out they have life-threatening illnesses. I'm having trouble listening to the kvetching of one relative with Costco-size tissues at hand, while getting ready to hand over the hari-kari sword tu… Read full post »

I had a joyous childhood, and an incredibly inspiring one as well, as a Japanese-Russian-Jewish girl growing up in Los Angeles during the 1970s. My life as a child was a colorful adventure filled with curious fascination and optimism, with everything intriguing and nothing mundane. I had my share of… Read full post »