Maybe it’s just me – it usually is – but I’m really not all that impressed.  Immediately following the capture of the second suspect in Boston, the gleeful patting on the back ensued.  “We got him!” was exhorted with jubilance.  Sure, that&rsq/… Read full post »

The good and noble General David Petraeus has apparently gone all in with a woman or two (or maybe more) who isn’t his wife. I wonder if this might not turn into a Tiger Woods moment with women eventually crawling out of the woodwork like termites eating their way through a… Read full post »

Post election I’ve heard a lot of talk from political pundits and writers.  But two refrains seem to be repeated endlessly and by an assortment of people – from the Right to the Left.  This isn’t the first time these topics have been analyzed and grumbled over &ndas… Read full post »

Although I believe these elections are a sham and a not very humorous joke – I will admit that I went to bed last night feeling rather sickened at the possibility of waking up to a President Romney this morning. 

There’s really only a hair’s width of difference be… Read full post »

I grew up in Flushing, Queens, in a detached, side-by-side, two-family home.  My father bought the place for himself and his sister and her family after the end of World War II.  It was a model home for the neighborhood and no one had ever lived in it before (or… Read full post »

Let it be stated clearly, I am no fan of Barack Obama.  That said, he should be doing far better with the voting public than he is.  The fact that this presidential contest is as close as it is, absolutely sends my mind reeling.  Given the lack of substance, decency… Read full post »

People are just not all they’re cracked up to be.  Sure, I like the idea of them…being one with humanity, part of the brotherhood of man.  But the idea is just that.  A concept.  It doesn’t often find sustenance in the world of reality – or maybe ju… Read full post »

There’s really no hope for this country, I fear.  If there is, it certainly won’t be in my lifetime.  And why do I say this, you might ask?  Well, actually, no one asked, but I’m going to answer anyway.  It’s because you can never, ever underestimate… Read full post »

Before the Presidential debate last Wednesday, I had jokingly commented on another blog that my husband and I might do a drinking game during it.  We could take a shot every time someone lied – and that we’d probably be drunk within ten minutes.  If we’d opened a bo… Read full post »

God, I love to eat!  However, when it comes to food, I have been afflicted with willpower and self-discipline throughout my life – perhaps due to the former dancer and actress in me.  This is both a blessing and a curse.  But, if it’s my last meal – I’m g… Read full post »

Recently a bunch of celebrities have taken to the airwaves to encourage or bully us into voting.  Well…not just vote in general, but vote specifically for Obama.  This is despite the fact that there are several interesting third party nominees to vote for – Rocky Anderso… Read full post »

I began my blog experience on Open Salon back in 2010.  My reasons for starting it were both simple and complex.  One factor was that I felt somewhat invisible in the world around me, and writing and posting my thoughts and my little memoir was a way to materialize… Read full post »

All hell broke loose for Johnny Depp a couple of weeks ago, with an interview he gave to Vanity Fair.  In the article, he stated his strong dislike for photo shoots - standing in front of a camera and posing made him extremely uncomfortable.  And that’s when Johnny stuck his/… Read full post »

It’s somewhat disturbing to me that so many liberals and progressives that I normally see eye-to-eye with, today I am at cross-thoughts with.  Instead of a sober and multi-faceted reaction to the recent killing of bin Laden, people are whoopin’ it up in jubilation.   &ldquo/… Read full post »

I’ll be the first to admit that I tend to come in late – if at all – to whatever is brewing in the national cultural gestalt.  I didn’t watch Seinfeld until it was in reruns.  I’ve never watched American Idol or pretty much any other reality-type televis… Read full post »

I’ve never understood the vigorously optimistic among us.  Not that anyone has asked – but I am generally a lot of fun to be around, or so I’ve been told.  I love to laugh and do so often.  I have a pretty wicked sense of humor and generally speaking, I&r… Read full post »

I’m not a fan of numbers or math.  Although, I do like the digits 3 and 13 – they go with my personality – not evenly divided.  Anyway, on a daily, droning basis, it’s reported that college loan debt is over $800 billion.  There’s about $800 billion… Read full post »

Finally the latest Washington D.C. budget conflagration has died down into simmering embers.   The smoldering wood chips I smell are the recently revealed bipartisan cuts in the deal – programs that help the poor, sick, old, disenfranchised and polluted.  Despite all this… Read full post »

Recently, Glenn Greenwald wrote a terrific piece – “Obama and American Exceptionalism.”  The article primarily concerned political commentators lauding Obama’s attack on Libya and the stars-and-stripes speech he gave announcing this new battle.  Apparently the… Read full post »

There’s been a lot going on recently in our nation’s capital.  A real on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller – or at least the corporate media and the politicians they serve think so – over the funding for the rest of the budget for this year.  It came dow… Read full post »

It takes all kinds – or so I’ve been told.  I suppose that the earth is large enough to provide room for a wide variety of people – all equipped with their particular array of quirks, eccentricities and whatnots.  Recently though, I’ve become totally appalled… Read full post »

This has been going on for a couple of years now – and it really has to stop because it’s getting on my last nerve.

March 9, 2011 – The New York Times – editorial –on the GOP budget bill -

“It is time for the President…to reject their tact… Read full post »

I’ve been reading that food prices are going up – yet once again.  And I don’t even have to read about it to know that ExxonMobil and Chevron and the rest of the oil companies are on their gluttonous way to racking up some more fast cash at the gas… Read full post »

We didn’t watch the Oscars on Sunday.  Instead we were in the middle of watching the Ken Burns documentary on baseball that I had recently taped.  Somewhere along the way though, I paused the tape and watched a few minutes of the awards show.   I tuned in at the momen/… Read full post »

He would have been 97 years old today.  If he were still alive, he probably would have been a frail shell of the man he’d been in his youth, or even later on in his life when I’d known him.  Constant trips to the doctor, or perhaps a nursing home/… Read full post »