It's Valentine's Day, or close to it.  Aa very good excuse to talk about love and its companion, marriage.

I'm all for it.  Love and marriage.  Valentines Day is a catalyst for a discussion of same sex marriage.  Proposition 8 is again back in everyone's consciousness.  That… Read full post »

Just taking a lead from a "Why Are Republicans So Mean?" thread.  Demonizing is always good.

Been reading what is essentially liberal circle jerking here about the stimulus plan, much of it excoriating Republicans for being against it and cheering the three Republicans who voted for it.

You won… Read full post »

Remember Urkel, the wacky, destructive neighbor nerd on Family Matters?

He's back.  In the White House.  Leading the country.  The Charles In Charge, the Andy Richter Controlling the Universe, our Nanny, Father Knows Best,  the Benson of the Beltway.  We all know Who's the… Read full post »

Are we aware of the health care provisions in Obama's stimulus bill?

The ideas in it had been  promoted by Tom Dashsle.  Check out H.R. 1 EH, ppgs 445, 454-479.

It allows your medical treatments  to be tracked electronically by a federal system.

RE:  … Read full post »

It's not because he's a Republican, because I don't think he is. 

So the question for me remains, "Why was Letterman so mean?"

I didn't see the Joachim Phoenix appearance until the videos  the next day and  I was as mystified by it as everyone else.

At first… Read full post »

I've been reading a number of comments on this site ridiculing Republican's unwillingness to be bipartisan, as the God Obama and his disciples Nancy and Harry requested.  They've been called obstrucionists, greedy, hateful, despicable -- you know, all those measured, well examined, thoughtful de… Read full post »

                                                        In a stunning announcement, Pope Benedict has declared that he will make Barack Obama a saint, glo… Read full post »

A story out of Indiana speaks of the UAW's attempt to organize a union for a company of fifty employees, who live in a small town, and who all were basically friendly with one another.

The organizing attempt was through Card Check, a labor bill that is being pushed by… Read full post »

 Here come de judge.

   Justice Brandeis in Olmstead v. United States in 1928  

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial.  Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel in… Read full post »

 I took some time off from a script deadline to watch a Tivo of last Wednesday's Law and Order and it got me thinking about  masculinity.  So before I get back to work, I wanted to put those thoughts into some order.

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It's Oscar time and I'm happy to see that James Marsh’s wonderful documentary Man On Wire,  has been nominated. 

This documentary follows Phillipe Petit’s extraordinary wirewalk thirty-four years ago between the two rooftops of the now destroyed twin towers of the World Trade C… Read full post »

So went that wonderful FedEx commercial where two guys in a mail room thought they were DOOMED!  They really weren't.  But we are.

OBAMA:  Uh, you know, I -- I -- I have more than enough to do, uh, without having to worry about the financial system.

You'll… Read full post »

1.  My dentist in Los Angeles was the father of the first young boy Michael Jackson allegedly buggered and who received twenty million dollars as restitution, officially not for the buggering, but for potential film scripts the eleven year old boy said he had ideas for.  You could look it u… Read full post »

I had a choice last night. 

I was doing my stand up and hosting the early show at Goodnight's Comedy Club in Raleigh with Crank Yanker Jim Florentine as the headliner.  The green room had a television, which was tuned in to the Oscars.

I managed to catch Hugh Jackman… Read full post »

Just two weekends ago, on May 3, 2009, The Fantasticks held a 50th Anniversary Reunion for alumni and friends in New York and I was part of the celebration. This musical icon opened on May 3rd, 1960 at the 152 seat Sullivan Street Theater off-Broadway. It closed forty-two years later in… Read full post »

Taking a moment off from political and cultural observations to recount an incident today at Costco.

There's a deliciously ironic symmetry to it,  or maybe, conversely, a straight-up asymmetry.  I'll let readers judge for themselves.

Arriving in the Costco lot,  my wife and I were wait… Read full post »

There are three --  no, four people I wanted to be when I was a kid:  Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, Ted Williams and Gene Kelly.

Oh, I flirted occasionally with Joe DiMaggio, James Cagney, Steve Van Buren, Johnny Lujack and a few others, but those were my top four.

Favorite movie… Read full post »

When my dad, who immigrated from Italy, legally, made me walk the streets with him during election time, ringing doorbells for Truman and Stevenson, he repeated a mantra I never forgot and eventually believed in:  "The Repubicans are the party of the rich, the Democrats are the party of the work… Read full post »

Speaking from the steps of the Church Of the Divine Government, President Obama has announced his ambitious plan for Universal Hotel Care.  This single-payer hotel care bill would guarantee every American an affordable hotel room or suite in any city in the United States, with no co-pay.  T… Read full post »

From Senator Tom Coburn on the Senate floor yesterday.

"The biggest earmark in history is in this bill. There is $2 billion in this
bill to build a coal plant with zero emissions. That would be great, maybe,
if  we had the technology, but the greatest brains in the… Read full post »

In the noisy and bitter aftermath of Proposition 8’s failure in California, national protests by gay and straight groups are sweeping the country.  Today is Day Without A Gay Day and gays are being encouraged to call in sick and donate the time to help in the battle for gay marriage.

Their… Read full post »

I was on the road filming a trailer yesterday and one of my fellow actors had a copy of The Washington Post.  A story there caught my eye.

It seems that  the California Air Resources Board wants to legislate against black cars starting in 2012 because it requires so much energy… Read full post »

Been extra busy with my screenwriting classes now that all the student script pages are coming in and haven’t had a chance to cruise OS as much as I would like.

But a writing gaffe jumped out at me while watching last Monday’s 24 on TIVO yesterday and I had… Read full post »

Quietly and with great secrecy the administration has called in the services of the International Metaphysical Psychic Society, or IMPS,  to investigate the possibility that the President's teleprompter is haunted.

No one will admit that IMPS representatives are on the scene, but a White House… Read full post »

The story, being referred to as “The Bethesda Incident,” is just now emerging, several weeks after the fact. It is a chilling reminder of the high stakes bullshit game that is global warming, where ideologues rule.

The facts are these. Anticipating President Obama’s intention to go… Read full post »