I saw someone wearing that on a T-shirt last week and thought, "Thank God."

Che Guevara was Fidel Castro's executioner.

How did he, a monstrous mass murderer, responsible for the blood curdling murders of thousands of teenagers, women and men, become a popular cultural figure embrace… Read full post »

Oh who wouldn't love one of these darling pups? For those of you who watched Sex and the City, Charlotte had one she named Elizabeth Taylor. That adorable dog was so easy going. Here's some pertinent facts on these excellent pooches. And a shout-out to Jodi Kasten.

General Appearance
The Cavali… Read full post »

Holly Hunter gave birth to twins at the age of 48. When they are 10 she will be 58. When they are 20, she will be 68...if she lives that long. Ditto actress Geena Davis and her twin boys. There's a long list of Hollywood women who put off having children… Read full post »

In India and Tibet, some lama's meditate for years next to the funeral pyres of the dead being burned. It is to remind them of how fleeting this life is and to focus on what we cannot see, instead of the material world.

Farrah Fawcett is my burning funeral pyre. She… Read full post »

Well I said I wouldn't do it. I swore I wouldn't watch him. I was warned against it. But then I turned him on and he ATE A SHEEPS HEART RAW. I mean, you can't make this stuff up!

And now I have to watch him, I mean, pretty soon… Read full post »

Almost 30 years ago I worked full-time at an alternative newspaper in Santa Barbara. I wrote articles and helped keep the community events section organized as well. Men and women worked there, there was smoking inside while working, pot smoking in the back, beer drinking at night while working late… Read full post »

Growing up in Massachusetts, the Kennedy's are a part of your outer life, like snow. Or excellent thin crust pizza. Or the annual turn of autumn leaves. Massachusetts proudly claims the Kennedy's and it's been a marriage of several decades. The State even had to export one Kennedy to Rhode Island… Read full post »

"Mom? How do you feel about piercing?"

"I feel like once you're 18 years and older, you can decide."

"I want to get pierced." My son is 16 1/2.

Sigh. Let's talk.

This is a picture of the type of piercing he wants. He brought it up last night to… Read full post »

Here is why I love Ian Punnett. For those of you fellow insomniacs who listen to George Noory on Coast to Coast a.m. in the middle of the night, you'll know who I'm talking about. I love Ian Punnett because he's articulate, funny, respectful and super, super smart. Also,… Read full post »

When my teenage son wanted to get a lip pierced we went around and around until it was decided, yes, he could do this but it would be the only one. End of subject. And that lasted for one month. The lip piercing almost got infected, got complicated, rings went… Read full post »

I did not like the appointing of Czars under GW and I don't like it any better under BHO.

It's taken President Obama only 3 months to name as many Czars to run America as it took the Russian Romanov's in Russia. Only it took them 300 years to… Read full post »

We all know the crazy aunt who wears purple all the time and kisses you on the lips when she see's you. She talks endlessly about dead friends and waxes eloquent about her 15 year cat Harold. She eats with her mouth open and her ears closed and probably hasn't… Read full post »

So it's my turn to pick something fun to do on Sunday cause we never do ANYTHING fun at all, it's just work, work, work all week and then guess what? Work some more on the weekend. So we always say we'll take Sundays off and do something fun and it… Read full post »

I meet people all of the time who swear that if they had been alive in Nazi Germany, what courageous things they would have done.

Or Stalinist Russia. Or during the underground railroad for slaves.

But now, when they have a chance to help America and add their voice to the… Read full post »

The first clue that we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto, is that all of my co-workers are 20-somethings. I'm a baby boomer. I took this job as Assistant Manager for Starbucks when my Corporate gig got unendurable, see: [http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=74808] I took this gig because:

1. I… Read full post »

So I quit my job yesterday so I could do yours. I mean, I was doing it anyway and decided, hey! Why should I do your job AND my job? Seems like a lot of work. I remember the good old days when I used to just do my job and… Read full post »

What to you do if your nemesis dies? Besides feel the appropriate grief and conflict?

I worked for D. for 5 years. For 5 years she was my supervisor. At the risk of sounding cranky and bitter, she came in with no qualifications, because it's a who-you-know Corporation. Perhaps they all… Read full post »

Pierce Brosnan, besides having a terrible singing voice a la Mamma Mia! is the father of 5 kids, is a talented painter, is married to Keely Shaye Smith who is neither lipo'd nor anorexic as so many of her hollywood peers. And he is a generous philanthropist.

He came from simple… Read full post »

The night the neurologist threw a tantrum and stormed out of the hospital with me crying after her to come back was one of the worst experiences of my life. Until my husband almost stopped breathing due to too much narcotic pain medication and almost pulled a "Michael Jackson" as the… Read full post »

What makes an American success story embrace Marxism? Why would a man to whom the free market gave him his every wish, wish oppression on his fellow man? Why would this movie star, whose children go to private schools and live in a secure and lovely mansion tell Hugo Chavez, "I'm… Read full post »

"A nation can survive it's fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the… Read full post »

You would be hard pressed to find another man who has experienced the worst that life has to give and the best, as Elie Wiesel has. Let's go backwards, shall we?

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wiesel was attending the Durban II conference in Geneva on Tuesday April 21st when a… Read full post »

21st Century Teenage-hood. I wonder what they were like in caveman days? 800 B.C.? 14th century? Before they had a cellphone, a computer, a pierced lip [or is that just mine?], an ipod and lots of fresh air, free food and a room of their own? Never in the history of… Read full post »

Middle age is like dying from freezing to death. You find yourself stranded in another snowbank, white everywhere and at first you're shocked, scared - how did I get here? - and you use adrenaline to help you find your way back the way you came. But it's no use. You… Read full post »

In the 6th grade we were picked to spend a week on Cape Cod, kind of a science week, living in dorms, measuring tide pools, collecting data. Coincidentally my best friend and I were both picked (I can still remember telling my mother when I got home, as she gardened… Read full post »