Dear Open Salon Community,

 Thank you for welcoming me into such a gracious community of thinkers, writers, creators, comics, and pundits.  I have enjoyed crafting up pieces to amuse, or in some cases, confound you. I have also enjoyed reading your own insights and ruminations on everything… Read full post »

It looks like comedienne Wanda Sykes can add "former host of late-night talk show" to her resume.  Punchline Magazine reported today that FOX cancelled The Wanda Sykes Show.  Saddled in an impossible time slot, 11 p.m. on Saturday nights, the show seemed doomed from infancy as it underwent… Read full post »

In three short seasons she dated God (rumor has it He's quite cheap), tackled terrorism one hit and run at a time, introduced the world to homeless chic, accidentaly became mentally disabled, almost married her dog, and single-handedly poured a boat load of lemon juice in the historical, leaking ches… Read full post »

Setting: Interior, bedroom, nightfall. SARAH PALIN kneels at her bedside praying.

 SARAH:  And please, God, doncha know, just do something about Nancy Pelosi's hair. I find it very anti-small government. Also, please make Martha Stewart return my calls. Amen.

GOD: Sarah.....

SARAH: What? Tr… Read full post »

Sarah Silverman tanked on Saturday Night Live after only one season.  I find it helps to say this out loud, several times in fact, and especially on days when you are having a particularly hard time squeezing those lemons for the proverbial thirst quencher that is lemonade.  If the gravity… Read full post »

Sarah Silverman tanked on Saturday Night Live after only one season.  I find it helps to say this out loud, several times in fact, and especially on days when you are having a particularly hard time squeezing those lemons for the proverbial thirst quencher that is lemonade.  If the gravity… Read full post »

Since its emergence as a home grown political movement a year ago, the Tea Party organization has been associated with true democracy, lauded as a return to activism, criticized as a covert organization actually run by the GOP, credited with redefining grass roots political movements, and likened to… Read full post »

Congratulations! You are the proud new owner of an iPad-iPod touch-iPhone-iMac-Droid-Blackberry-bluetooth-handsfree-wireless-Kindle-voice activated-3G-mobile device! You have officially joined the ranks of the technologically hip, but before you start texting and tweeting grandma or syncing your emai… Read full post »

This week the Discovery Channel announced a deal to produce a reality show about Alaska hosted by the state's former governor, recent vice presidential candidate, and current lipstick loving, pig eating, book signing, Tea Party Bagging, maveric, Sarah Palin.  Palin's numerous anti-enviornment be… Read full post »

What the War on Drugs was to the 1980s, the War on Weight has become to the new millennium with women drawing sides as supporters, detractors, and front line casualties. But one thing military metaphors can never adequately account for is that for over a century fat has been synonymous with… Read full post »

From the houses of congress to the boardrooms of America, women continue to earn their equal footing alongside male counterparts, making strides important for a new generation of women. The world of women in comedy is not different.  Well, there is less Ann Taylor and much more Amy Sedaris, but… Read full post »

Don't lie. You all wish you could have been there too. Ensconced in comforting darkness, settled into the ergonomically pleasing chairs that surely cost more than your kid's college education, sharing the air of high intellect at the annual TED forum, a conference that brings together thinkers, creat… Read full post »

Scientists claim that humans could run 40 mph in theory and on steroids.

Barnes & Noble owned B. Dalton bookstore recently closed in the town of Laredo TX, leaving the community without a bookstore. Now teenagers will have to go back to making out in the library.

 Bubble wrap packing materia… Read full post »

California is known for its quakes, and today the television tectonic power shift sent tremors across the country.  Conan released a statement regarding NBC's offer to move him to 12.05 a.m. in order to accomodate sliding Jay Leno back into his 11.30 p.m. digs.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV… Read full post »

Anyone choosing to avoid the saccharine, waxy dimpled sweetness of Ryan Seacrest’s Vanilla Rockin New Years Bland Eve (this year with 30% more coverage of liquored up yahoos in those awful, Elton John knock-off 2010 glitter eyeglasses) might have taken a gamble on CNN’s broadcast featurin… Read full post »

The Huffington Post released a list of the top sex tapes of 2009. Not to be confused with the best-selling book, The Clinton Tapes.

Karol Rove officially became divorced this week. Reports stated the split was amicable; Rove will still be allowed visitation rights at the Crawford Ranch and George wil… Read full post »

Bloggers, critics, op-ed columnists, that annoying guy who sits opposite you in your work "pod" who Elfed himself back in October, are all on double duty these days, scrambling to compile their year-in-review and look-back-on-the decade lists of highs, lows, and utterly bizarre moments.  Of the… Read full post »

 Yahoo News now features a news tab for "Dinosaurs and Fossils." When you click on it it takes you right to Joan River's and Hugh Heffner's websites.

 More women are coming forward in the Tiger Woods fiasco. These women are accusing Tiger Woods of making their cracker ass husbands think the… Read full post »

Like many Americans too young to even appreciate or comprehend the slightly ribald, sly-winkish-type humor on Saturday Night Live, I remember sneaking to the television late at night to watch reruns of the show that ushered in the next iteration of a television comedy revolution begun with Laugh-In a… Read full post »

In his song, "Levon," Elton John sings: "Levon sells cartoon balloons in town." I don't know what that means exactly, but A. it's a damn fine song and 2. it's a testament to Sir Elton's fine lyrical prescience to capture the vacuous brilliance of America's latest newcomer to the fifteen minutes… Read full post »

This holiday season, give yourself the gift of a new, intoxicating fragrance: "Blameless" by Sarah Palin.  "Blameless" combines a sultry blend of evasion, delusion, and hypocrisy distilled with the musky scent of moose and hockey mask.  Simply dab a bit of "Blameless" behind the ears or app… Read full post »

She's given away free cars, single-handedly reversed global illiteracy, brought the pipeline of education to young women in Africa, and helped launch the presidential candidacy of a young, African-American senator.   The only things Oprah hasn't accomplished (yet) is reversing the earth's rotati… Read full post »

 NBC's beloved, Emmy-award winning 30 Rock made its debut on German television earning a 0.0 rating, or in American terms, a rating in between Parker Lewis Can't Loose and The Dana Carvey Show.  Some critics speculated that the show's pop-culture-laden writing contributed to viewer confusio… Read full post »

"Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see," says Linus to the starry-eyed Sally as they hunker down in the pumpkin patch to wait for the mysterious and elusive Great Pumpkin. "No sign of hypocrisy here."

Peanuts creator Charles Schulz mastered the art of rendering an adult sensibility toward… Read full post »

*You will go blind

*You will grow wings and a tail

*You will become a psychotic baby killer

*You will become a Republican

These are among the only reasons I will accept in favor of NOT allowing same-sex marriage. I was trying to work something out with battery acid and kittens,… Read full post »