Feeling that Rick Warren wasn’t enough to prove he means what he says about talking with those with whom he disagrees, Barack Obama asked another controversial person to speak at his inauguration.

In an astonishing announcement, President-elect Barack Obama sent the country reeling and left loq… Read full post »

One by one San Fernando Valley, a sprawling bedroom community of Los Angeles, icons are disappearing. The latest is today’s announcement of the closure of the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s country hospital and convalescent home.

The first icon to go this year was the internationa… Read full post »

The early… Read full post »

Slow as they’ve been, the television industry is finally catching up to me.

For years I’ve been asking why all the focus on youth oriented programming, when it’s the geezers and geezerettes who inherited the geezers money that have all the spendable cash; it’s not the te… Read full post »

As they like to say on one of L.A.’s local TV news broadcasts, another aaaaaaw story to brighten your evening. Something of an oxymoron, but what the heck.

Although most of us enjoy a happy story spotlighting tiny, fluffy, furry newborn critters, there are… Read full post »

Debbie did Dallas.

Things are hard all over.

Don’t laugh, but they are bending over and laying down the pornoeconotile dysfunctional gauntlet in the lap of Congress.

It’s a capitol capital idea, indeed.

The porn producing pair are ask… Read full post »

It’s a gopher war and I resolve to outsmart him!

Every New Year’s I’m resolute in my resolve to not make resolutions, yet once again when the calendar flipped from ’08 to ’09 I found myself losing my resolve in one area: Being one with nature.

I renewed my resolve… Read full post »

Boomers aren’t the only ones who are daunted by these new-fangled computer contraptions.

I was nowhere near “boomerage” when I was forced to learn how to compute for my newspaper job.

I stalled kicking, screaming, wailing, moaning and flailing my arms right up to the last class my c… Read full post »

For more than forty years physicians have been replacing worn out knee and hip joints.

Internal organs are replaced even though they are riddled with rejection problems.

External flaws, the ravages of aging and excess fat have people lining up at the body sculptors’ workshops.

According to CNN… Read full post »

Where yesterday they could pay their bills; today they can’t, even after selling off everything of value that they possess.

That is…until they remember that long forgotten, du… Read full post »

Nine Muslims were kicked off a New Year’s Day flight from D.C. to Florida by AirTran Airways.

Irfan said he… Read full post »

OMG, How Could I Live Without My MTV?

Very well, thank you very much even if Time Warner and Viacom reached a temporary agreement.

Viacom and Time Warner reached a temporary settlement that will keep Dora Exploring, Sponge Bob doing whatever he does, Jon Steward and Steven Colbert punching the pols.… Read full post »

This might be the last time to celebrate the adjustment of atomic clocks if scientists, who think it’s a waste of time get their way.

The quiet high desert town of Valencia in Southern California won’t be so quiet around the home of Skip Newhall this afternoon.

Seventy-year-old retired as… Read full post »

For years shrinks have been telling us that we must know ourselves before we can begin to understand others.

Since few of us ever fully understand ourselves, how are we expected to truly know our friends, neighbors, acquaintances or even our closest family members, or what motivates them to do anythi… Read full post »

Ya gotta love end of days speculation; it’s safe and so much more fun than the really serious stuff that’s going on.

It was “off with their heads” in the bad ol’ days in China for the emperor’s weather predictors when they were wrong. Drastic, but fitting wun&rsquo… Read full post »

What they do and how they vote makes no sense.

In all the years I’ve lived in California, voters have only done one thing that made sense and may be of benefit to most or all residents.

Last election, we actually voted to change how congressional districts are to be re-aligned,… Read full post »

The oath of office isn’t about the book it’s sworn on; it’s about upholding the Constitution of the United States of America, the document that has made us unique from every other country in the world.

It’s an irony that a Democrat is the first to use Lincoln’s bible sin… Read full post »

From Sandy’s “I Can’t Really Take Cooking Seriously” Book

I don’t care what the perky TV chefs say. Cooking is a chore, so I try to make it as easy and unserious as possible.

Step One: Kick everyone out of the kitchen; they only get in the way.

Step Two:… Read full post »

Aaaaaw. Isn’t that just too bad. Even the wealthiest are tightening their belts.

Welcome to the real world, rich people.

According to SpendingPulse, luxury sales dropped nearly 35 percent at the beginning of December as compared to the same week last year, and were also down 23 percent for the… Read full post »

Only in Southern California. A beach town Jewish congregation creates a super-sized potato pancake to make McDonald’s proud.

Southern Californians like to pride themselves in being innovators and concocting new ideas that the country soon follows.

Members of Temple Isaiah in Newport Beach combi… Read full post »

Will was right. It’s all in the name.The name Kennedy is more powerful than Schlossberg. Clinton is more powerful than Rodham.

What happened to Schlossberg; he seems to have gone missing -- or at least his name has.

After 22 years of marriage and being known as Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, sud… Read full post »

Feeling that Rick Warren wasn’t enough to prove he means what he says about talking with those with whom he disagrees, Barack Obama asked another controversial person to speak at his inauguration.

In an astonishing move that sent the country reeling and leaving most loquacious pundits speechles… Read full post »

To thine own self be true; the world be damned.

The new mantra: Don’t let the shoe hit you on your way out the door. Bush is leaving office in a toxic wake of re-regulations, leaving consumers stranded on a reef with nowhere to go, not even state court.

We used to say, don’t let the door hit you on the… Read full post »

If the smoking lamp is lit in a movie, you just might not be able to handle it.

In a country that boasts it’s a world leader and can take on any enemy and win, we’re told we’re too infantile and weak-minded to not be influence by seeing actors smoke in… Read full post »