The outrageous invasion of our privacy rights that is the whole-body scanner (and its equally outrageous counterpart, the full-body pat down) was hurriedly put in place by the government, before Americans could really comprehend what it would mean and whether they were willing to tolerate it.
I want to thank the over three dozen people who sent me “get well” e-mails. It was very touching. I was able to answer them all as I seem to have some free time on my hands.
“War,” according to its hype, is a feisty comedy about war, but it’s no “M*A*S*H.” And it isn’t about war. In fact, it isn’t even a comedy. It’s a series of angry tirades set in an Irish pub.
As the nation recently passed the six month anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, which launched the worst oil spill in U.
“A healthy baby” is the near-automatic response of every pregnant woman when asked what she’s hoping to have. It’s why women take prenatal vitamins, abstain from sushi and alcohol and just about everything else that brings them pleasure, and submit to a battery of tests, sometimes for 36 straight we
This fall has been especially frightening. There have been the little monsters at our doors on Halloween, the monstrous politicians invading our homes through the television, and there has been that property tax bill in the mail box.
A plague of locusts of biblical proportions has hatched and is growing as Australia, the fourth largest grain exporter, has gone from 13 years of bone-dry drought to the wettest September since the inception of continuous record keeping in 1860.
When a parent loses a child it is universally recognized as a tragedy. Whether by accident or disease, the sympathy, empathy, and tears flow freely. I recall a college friend who was killed by a bus on a cross-country bike trip.
The votes are in and there were a few surprises. I predicted that Measure Y, which will add another half cent to the city’s current 9.75 percent sales tax, would carry by 60 percent of the vote.
Q: I recently was stopped by the police for letting my dog loose in the park, what are the leash laws in Santa Monica? A: While I understand most of us like to let our dogs run loose and have a good time (myself included), please understand the dog leash laws were enacted in Santa Monica for a reaso
The New York Times broke the huge news story recently that deluxe hotels are now offering half hour massages and other spa services that are traditionally an hour or an hour and a half.
Comedians often question if any subject, no matter how heinous, can be fodder for humor. For example, Hitler would seem out of bounds and yet Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” is sold out on Broadway for the next 10 years.
