MONDAY WAS MEMORIAL DAY, A holiday to honor those who died fighting for our country. It was originally called Decoration Day during the Civil War, when southern women decorated graves
LAST SUNDAY, I WAS AT SANTA Monica’s elegant Fairmont Miramar (meaning I wasn’t wearing my flip-flops). Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame were being honored by the Palisades
A FEW WEEKS AGO, I MENTIONED Huell Howser’s travel shows on KCET. I joked about his Tennessee twang and overly-enthusiastic style, but over the years he has built
TUESDAY WAS THE 4TH ANNIVERSARY of “Mission Accomplished” (or as I refer to it, “Nothing Accomplished.”) I still can’t believe that absurd aircraft carrier photo-op. It was embarrassing
THESE PAST DAYS HAVE BEEN A nightmare. A madman kills 32 people and wounds 30 more on the Virginia Tech campus, the deadliest rampage in our history. Unbearable grief. In
MINDFUL OF THE EXPRESSION, “There’s nothing older than yesterday’s news,” I’m writing this the day after UCLA defeated Kansas to reach the Final Four of the NCAA
AS I READ VALERIE PLAME WILL BE testifying before Congress today, I couldn’t help thinking I bet Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and a dozen other actresses are dying to
