More signs this week that times are changing. First, the Patriot Act was blocked (temporarily) by a coalition of Tea Party Republicans and House Democrats. Second, there has been a strong pro-gay, antiwar showing at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Evidence that things are ta… Read full post »

One doesn't have to be a sage to see that, here in the US at any rate, politics have become shrill and corrosive. Thanks to zealotry and what I can only describe as hate, we are at a political impasse even while we are heading over a cliff as a society.… Read full post »

I should have kept true to my Pollyanna self. Two weeks ago I reported that Wonder Woman would not be returning to television anytime soon. But thanks to NBC's new president of entertainment, Bob Greenblatt, she is. Greenblatt gave the go-ahead for David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman pilot last week, in… Read full post »

Since the tragic shootings in Tucson Saturday before last, civil political discourse has been a topic on many people's minds. It is high time, I say, to pay better attention to how we talk to each other. This starts with you and me, not the pundits and media personalities who profit… Read full post »

President Obama earned praise that I rarely give to politicians with his speech last night. Speaking in Tucson at a tribute given for the victims and heroes of the terrible shootings which recently took place there, he spoke movingly and eloquently, and just as important, apolitically. Obama gave lit… Read full post »

I agree with Sheriff Dupnik: political discourse in this country is shallow and mean-spirited; the result, I think, of our having needlessly politicized everything on a grand scale. So the sentiment itself, unspun and unfiltered, I couldn't agree with more. (Why, just here on OS this afternoon, in co… Read full post »

Why it is so difficult to get a Wonder Woman film or television project off the ground I cannot fully explain. Certainly a sexist Hollywood mindset would supply part of the answer. But still...

Friday it was reported that David E. Kelley and DC Entertainment, after shopping around a spec… Read full post »

Five things I'd like to see, but probably won't, in 2011. (These are not, however, particularly difficult to accomplish, where there is probity and conviction anyway, ergo our problem.)

1) Peace. Here I do not refer only to the (undeclared) wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--or the nascent wars in Pakista… Read full post »

Santa Buddy, slip a Whitman under the tree, For me.
been an awful good boy, Santa buddy,
so hurry down the chimney tonight.

Santa buddy, a Tesla Roadster too,
Light blue.
I'll wait up for you,
Santa buddy, so hurry down the chimney tonight.

Think of all the fun I've missed,
Think of all the gals that I… Read full post »

Former taekwondo champion and Rigged star Rebecca Welsh, née Neuenswander, is a rightful contender to be Wonder Woman. In her case, however, a script may not be required—she already plays a wonder woman in real life with her HALO foundation. This year she once again asks that we help out… Read full post »

My week started with a guest appearance on Women Talk Sports Radio. I was invited on to talk about gender segregation in sports. The discussion centered on an article written by a promising high school journalist named Julia Friedman. I had been forewarned but didn't take heed: this week's theme woul… Read full post »

It's starting to look as if Wonder Woman will be returning to television, or showing up in theaters, or both, fairly soon.  Thus now seems a good time to recirculate a post I made last year at the Athletic Women Blog.

Does the idea of an African-American actress playing Wonder… Read full post »

Another election cycle draws to a close, another begins right away. Billions spent. Untold man- and woman-hours of effort. Endless media attention. Animosity. Smear campaigns. Lies and half-truths. Glitter and gloss aplenty but little substance...

And what's it all for? Progress? Will anything materi… Read full post »

Come this November, I'm going to do something I've rarely if ever done: I'm going to hold my nose and check a few GOP boxes on my ballot. I seldom vote for either of the two major parties--they are both so corrupt now that it's beyond a waste of my time--but… Read full post »

It is, perhaps, rather simplistic to believe that we are better served by presidents who have experienced war first-hand, and thereby know its horrors by heart. But the notion does become a tempting one when you watch President Eisenhower's farewell address.

Eisenhower saw the problem looming, never-… Read full post »