Dick Cavett and Robert Bader, Woodbridge Connecticut. 

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I learned that Dick Cavett and Writer/Producer and Groucho archivist Robert Bader were going to appear at a local Jewish Community Center to give a talk on “Groucho Marx, the Inside St… Read full post »

I wrote this about two years ago. I seem to repost it each Mother's Day because, I can't improve upon it. I think that some women are naturally great mom, others not so great. Other women either choose not to have children, or can't. A lot is made of this holiday… Read full post »

Let's face it people, the recent media reports of Mitt Romney being a bully when he was seventeen years old are overblown.

He was a minor. He shouldn't be held accountable for his actions because he wasn't old enough to legally be an adult. Don't let the fact that in… Read full post »

I spent the last weekend in some of the most affluent sections of the Garden State, also known as New Jersey. I was a guest. What I saw and what I experienced was quite different than what I expected.

I watched the interactions between several affluent parents and their children. I… Read full post »

I was going to write a lede about Open Salon's pay wall is beginning on April 1st. However this was a very cheap way to wish you all an early April Fool's Day.

I think the ritual April Fool's Day pranks that used to occur at work are now relegated to twentieth… Read full post »

I have a unique link with Dancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron. We both worked at the same radio station in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We worked the 7-midnight shift. I preceeded his tenure at WHEB FM, a Knight Quality Station. WHEB was  24 hour station so it probably should have been&n… Read full post »

Mitt Romney and I have two things in common. The anniversary of our births fall on the same day. We both have a Master's Degree in Business Administration, albeit from very different schools. Mitt went to Harvard, and I did not.

The reason Mitt is bad for America has much… Read full post »

Today was a sad day for Indianapolis Colts fans and Peyton Manning fans. Manning was fired today, because his employer Jim Irsay didn't want to have a cut a check for 28 million dollars tomorrow. No severance pay, just a emotional choked up news conference, and a hasty good bye after… Read full post »

I was going through my "Manage Posts" link here at Open Salon, and found a few posts that I started and never finished. This is what happens when you are a procrastinator, or you run out of time, or you run out of ideas,or all three.  Such was the case last… Read full post »

Take your pick, but this was anything but a slow news week. In the midwest, thousands are recovering from devastating Tornadoes. There have been deaths, and after a survey of the damage, the cost in physical damage will be in the millions, and the cost in human suffering can't be measured… Read full post »

Lying in bed last night I tossed and turned thinking about the extremism of the religious right.

Then a deep voice boomed above me. It wasn’t Orson Welles’ or Sir Cedric Hardwicke’s voice. It was close, but it was more like John Facenda’s; perhaps a cross between… Read full post »

I spent the Super Bowl at a party. My wife and I were the only Patriots fans there. When the Giants won I felt a real sense of loss. I had no vested interest in the game. No bets, no ownership of the team, not even a the $88,000 stake the… Read full post »

I know many of you who are not from the northeast have tired of the hype about tomorrow's Super Bowl. I can't blame you. If  this had been a San Francisco/Baltimore match up, I would have tired of this immediately after the Conference Championship games. So I apologize to you in… Read full post »

I've finally figured out what's wrong with America. We just can't seem to wrap our heads around what's important. Since we can't, we are doomed to failure.

I was saddened but not outraged by the Susan Komen foundation's decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. Saddened by the lack of leaders… Read full post »

Submitted for your approval, I give you me. High School graduate at 18. College dropout at age 21. Lots of different experience in low to mid range hourly pay. Returned to college part time at age 29. Didn't qualify for many jobs because of a lack of college degree. Graduated with… Read full post »

On January, 22nd, 2009, I posted on Open Salon for the first time. I got six rates and six comments. Posting in this forum was sort of like doing stand up comedy.

The commenters could be hecklers and the rates and the reads were applause. It was scary. There was… Read full post »

There are times when I get accused of bragging. I tell people it ain't bragging if you done it. There was a time in my life where I did it a lot. I am definitely not counting the times I was by myself either.

According to surveys the average male has… Read full post »

I hold former Governor Mitt Romney in minimum high regard. Minimum high regard is what one U.S. Senator says about another U.S. Senator he or she doesn't like very much. Evidently, on the Senate floor it's bad form to say "I haaaattte you" or "you're a moron."

The governor's track… Read full post »

This is the time of year both football fans and non-football fans get excited about. The divisional playoffs. For football fans the four remaining teams from each conference square off just three weeks away from the Super Bowl. For non-football fans, just three weeks away from the Super Bowl and the… Read full post »

There are writers and there are writers. Some get paid and some don't. Some are good and some are not. Don't believe for a minute that all good writers get paid and those who are not good don't. You don't have to have a Ph.D. in English literature to figure that… Read full post »

A grey overcast replaced the dawn this morning. Two calls from my daughters in Maine confirmed a white Christmas had arrived in York and Cumberland counties. Grandchilden alive with the spirit of the holidays. Legos and Pokemon ruled their day.

Ms. Sheepdog and I exchanged gifts in front of the fire… Read full post »

Once doesn't have to look far to find hacks. They seem to be everywhere. The hacks I chose all have the same thing in common. Nepotism. None of them I could find would even have a job in the media if their last name was different than their famous parents. In… Read full post »

1. The fall of regimes in the middle east. Who would have thought the protest movements in Egypt, Libya and Syria would all happen in the same year?

2. Occupy Wall Street. The rise of the 99% movement may chart the course of the debate in the 2012 elections.

3. The… Read full post »

I can't say for sure whether or not Santa Claus exists in real life. I do know that in New York City there is a street named after him. Saint Nicholas Avenue and Saint Nicholas Park are located in upper Manhattan.

The street was named when the Dutch ruled New Amsterdam,… Read full post »

The pundits will be out soon with their predictions for the new year. This is the third time I am making predictions. I did so in 2009 and 2010.

Here are my picks for the new year. Some may be right and some will be wrong. Your comments and your predictions… Read full post »