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 »

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 »

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 »

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.

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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 »

"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 »

Football legend Rosey Grier said it best in that feel-good classic from the 1970s, Free to Be You and Me:  "It's alright to cry." That was the 1970s, read: a culture just slightly less sexist, mysoginist, racist, and repressed than in those martini-swilling Mad Men days of yore.  Here we ar… Read full post »

She's expecting her second? How wonderful? Is she going to keep the nursery the same safari/animals of the world theme or mix it up? Oh her husband must be so excited! Hmm? What now? I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood; no husband you say? Well the single mom route is not… Read full post »

CNN's Campbell Brown recently reported on a story about a Cincinatti mother who lost her job at a Totes/Isotoner warehouse after taking unscheduled breaks to pump milk for her infant.  Initially, the mom, LaNisa Allen, had been given permission to pump in a warehouse bathroom during a specified… Read full post »

On the recent finale of the reality series Big Brother, host Julie Chen bravely or foolishly put herself in the critical cross hairs of the fall fashion season.  Resembling the poofed and padded Violet Beauregarde from the original Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory who bloated up into a gr… Read full post »

An inviting fire crackles in the wrought-iron fireplace in the center of the room.  In one corner, a woman with a guitar strums softly, putting a new twist on an old Dylan tune; people are relaxing on overstuffed couches and large living room chairs. Some people hunch over the white, steril… Read full post »

"How will I know/if he really loves me?" sang Whitney Houston at the height of her pop-ularity in the 1980s. We remember her in just that moment: crimped hair, cute hip-hugging dress, pipes that resounded in pristine melodic waves.  Her anthem to that queasy feeling of mutual infatuation and fas… Read full post »