Few Americans are more fascinated with the politics in Florida than New Englanders like me who spend half their time in the Sunshine State to escape the cold and snow of their birthplaces. The stereotypes ring true, it seems, and the point of view of Floridians often stuns the political minds… Read full post »

Italians say, “Only good people die.” They are not referring to the American myth that “bad things happen to good people,” but rather to the universal practice by which eulogies declare every corpse a saint.

Joe Paterno is now dead and already the sanctifiers are blaming a… Read full post »

I first met Andrea Mitchell years ago in Washington DC when I was one of a number of radio talk hosts President Clinton invited to broadcast live from the White House lawn. She’s a… Read full post »

A few days ago I finally heard the question I had feared ever since Rick Santorum became the GOP “flavor of the week.” His flavor was going to be “marinara” after my Uncle Arthur in Portsmouth, NH asked “Isn’t he Italian?”

I answered,… Read full post »

Some people just can’t make the quantum leap between the normal feeding function of the breast and the salacious breast image created by those who just love to make things “dirty.” This year, it happened in a Texas Target. A breastfeeding mom in a remote corner of the… Read full post »

(The original version of this post appears in my column in today's Keene, Sentinel)

(Young in, "She Had to Say Yes" which, apparently, she did)

Judy Lewis 2002 - The apple didn't fall far from the tree

About 75 years ago, when Hollywood starlet Loretta… Read full post »

 (The following is a reprint of my regular column in the Keene Sentinel. This appeared in the Sentinel on Saturday,November 26, 2011)

Even knowing that every citizen is innocent until proven guilty, this grandmother and many other parents and grandparents are tired of the Penn State spin. We kno… Read full post »

On Thursday, November 17, 2011, the two month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the movement that started Occupy demonstrations worldwide entered a new phase as hundreds of frustrated Americans gathered nationwide as authorities sought to quash their movement. In New York City, hom… Read full post »

1. How can anyone really take Herman Cain seriously as a candidate for the most important job in the country and perhaps the world?

2. What does it really say about the Republican Party that it applauds the death penalty, boos a US soldier who happens to… Read full post »

About 25 years ago, a restaurant chain called “Sambo’s” went under. The black community felt offended to have the children’s story of “Little Black Sambo” and his tiger butter pancakes resurrected in a racially equitable society.

Just weeks ago, GOP candidate Rick… Read full post »

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Good for New Jersey governor Chris Christie (with whom I seldom agree) for vetoing the proposal to give the TV show Jersey Shore a taxpayer-funded tax break. In axing the legislation, Christie said, appropriately:

“&h… Read full post »

The recent special election in New York’s Ninth Congressional District saw 70 year-old Bob Turner, a former cable TV executive and a Roman Catholic conservative Republican handily defeating Democrat David Weprin for the seat vacated by ex-Congressjerk Anthony D. &ld… Read full post »

I'm curious to know… Read full post »

Most of you have heard by now of the $500 million fine Google will pay the feds for knowingly allowing advertising of Canadian drugs on its site. Uncle Sam thinks that Canadian drugs that are not FDA approved may be dangerous. Even though millions of Canadians take them/… Read full post »

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As happens every summer, I am missing Italy terribly...maybe I can convince all of you to make an escape...

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8283941/see_late_summer_Italy_affordably_after.html?cat+16

 What have you got to lose? The world's going to hell… Read full post »

Now that the debt ceiling crisis has met with a faux-resolution guaranteed to do absolutely nothing for the US’s fading economy, we can look forward to phase two. In that scenario, 12 members of both houses of the Congress, representing both major parties would form a “Super Com/… Read full post »

                                              MUST IT COME TO THIS?

One of the many… Read full post »

One hundred years since birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger started working in the ghettos of New York as a public health nurse, helping families to learn how to avoid unintended pregnancies, an independent panel of doctors and health experts have recommended the availability of birt… Read full post »

She looked like many teenage girls-- dewy complexion and Miley Cyrus curls framing a pretty face. She cast her eyes toward the pavement, though, to avoid my smile as I held the door for her and her look-alike Dad rushing to join her from a suburban luxury… Read full post »

This leopard can never change his spots...Stay tuned".

UPDATE- 7-5-2011

Here is the interview given today by the alleged victim of another if DSK's "adventures"

 From the Associated Press on Yahoo News

 I was in Rome once, vacationing and reveling in the wonderful lifestyle Italy offers. I was also battling the remnants of a persistent cough (shared by many of my fellow New Englanders) born of a spring cold exacerbated by a higher-than-usual pollen count during some unseasonably… Read full post »

 It's about time, it seems to me, that we all start to articulate that the American voters may have made a terrible mistake in 2008. Hillary Clinton got kicked to the curb because so many were caught up in Barack Obama's "rock star" presence and… Read full post »

As a woman who has spent much of her adult life lobbying for and writing about equal rights and opportunities for women, I am distressed that some candidates for the upcoming national elections make me sick to my feminist stomach. I am talking about people like Michele Bachmann and the omnipresent… Read full post »

Hello, all of you....

After a couple of months "on the road" --  "on the web"-- I am coming "home" to Open Salon which I must admit I have REALLY MISSED!!

I tried a brief stint on Hub Pages and I want to tell you all that it was a total… Read full post »