2024-04-16 17:06
Hannah and her body, for all to see.Being a big fan of the TV series Ted Lasso, it was always tough to choose my favorite character, but I usually landed on Ted's boss Rebecca, played b… Read More
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2024-04-15 16:52
Rainy day in Hong KongI have never been to Hong Kong, nor have I ever wanted to go. It seems very crowded, at least from all the photos I've seen. And several years ago in NYC during the Chr… Read More
2024-04-14 18:18
Everyone gets all worked up about our gun laws, especially after a mass shooting or close to an election. But yesterday in Australia, where "to legally possess a handgun, the owner must… Read More
2024-04-13 16:29
Life is precious, surely most people would agree. But not all people, I'm thinking. Like the woman who recorded and then posted a video of her German Shepherd dog barking every time she says… Read More
2024-04-12 19:31
😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝A good friend of our family got sever… Read More
2024-04-12 18:29
Is that your final answer, Sonny?"Earlier this week a TV talk show host -- admittedly a low bar -- proved unequivocally that she's no Albert Einstein. Sunny Hostin, one of the five lizard-br… Read More
2024-04-11 00:44
Earlier today a former high school friend of mine who has, in the ensuing 60 years, lived a very bizarre life quite foreign to mine and with whom I disagree politically, churlishly wrote to… Read More
2024-04-10 12:02
When I woke up this morning and went downstairs for some coffee, I found my husband in a tizzy. Yes, you heard me, in a tizzy. (Look it up.) His Apple iPhone was not working at all. This is… Read More
2024-04-09 17:40
2024-04-09 14:52
Okay, but what else can she do?Big news: Recently a 58-year-old Canadian woman broke the world record for the longest plank, holding it for four hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds. What I want… Read More
2024-04-08 20:35
Today was the day of the big solar eclipse we've been hearing about for several weeks now. Here in Maine, several towns were said to lie directly in the Path of Totality, meaning the sun wou… Read More
2024-04-06 15:07
Forced out of their homes, they don't look too lucky to me.Growing up in a Jewish family not long after WW2 ended, I heard more than my fair share of stories about the Holocaust. All too oft… Read More
2024-04-03 22:21
When my mother died of early onset Alzheimer's at the age of 62, one of her doctors told me I should play word games like Scrabble and daily crossword puzzles as they would help stave off th… Read More
2024-04-02 21:48
Normal people looking at the eclipse.Maybe my parents dropped me on my head when I was a baby. Of course I remember no such event, but it might explain why I am not like most people. For exa… Read More
2024-03-31 21:17
Today is Easter, a holiday celebrated by people who believe that Christ died on the cross thousands of years ago and then came back to life three days later, leading them to say, "He is rise… Read More
2024-03-29 23:44
Lia Thomas, the infamous swimmer who "changed" into a woman and then entered, and naturally won, many national swimming competitions for women has finally been told the awful truth: She… Read More
2024-03-29 16:32
I have an AOL email account. I got it many years ago when email first was available and I was a freelance writer in Washington, DC. It now contains hundreds, if not thousands, of email… Read More
2024-03-28 12:33
Many people flipped out when, a few years back, President Trump called the media "the enemy of the people." Of course, most of the people doing the flipping were members of the press. Fast-f… Read More
2024-03-27 13:53
It wasn't long ago that I considered voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president. He seemed sane, something we can't say about either the Democratic or Republican candidate. Then yesterda… Read More
2024-03-26 22:21
In the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which aired Sunday night at 10 pm eastern time on MAX and which I watched last night, Larry drives to a fancy cheese shop in Beverly Hills… Read More
2024-03-25 20:53
Most of what the general public believes about being old is a pack of lies, spread by the young who know nothing about it. Just because we don't give a rat's ass about Taylor Swift doesn't m… Read More
2024-03-23 14:41
The fact that Kate Middleton has cancer is bumming me out big time. She's a Princess, after all, just like the ones in all those Disney movies! Besides being beautiful, gracious, kind, gener… Read More
2024-03-22 17:29
The funniest joke told by comic Anthony Jeselnik in his 50-minute standup routine last night at Portland's Merrill Auditorium was one of Norm Macdonald's, the hilarious SNL alum who died in… Read More
2024-03-21 12:41
News Flash: The United States has fallen off the list of the Top 20 Happiest Countries. That's no surprise, with 1 in 5 Americans suffering from a mental illness, according to statistics gat… Read More
2024-03-20 18:15
My post in this space yesterday originally was titled, "Vaginas Have Tongues Wagging." Within minutes it was censored by Facebook as being "sensitive, offensive content," and blocked f… Read More
2024-03-19 16:07
Fresh on the heels of Emma Stone winning an Oscar for inserting all sorts of things into her vagina on-screen in her latest film comes the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, wherei… Read More
2024-03-18 00:09
Last week the televised Academy Awards came and went and I never noticed. But I did hear about the winners the next day, and once again I shook my head in disbelief about who was passe… Read More
2024-03-15 14:50
Honestly, I can't believe how many people no longer have individual likes, original thoughts and personal opinions about anything and everything. It's frightening, bringing to mind the class… Read More
2024-03-15 00:04
I am so sick of transgenders! Get over it, be a boy or be a girl, be whatever the heck you ARE. Actually, I am sick of being a human, I'd much rather be any other species, humans are so emba… Read More
2024-03-14 21:48
Barnum, at left, and Bailey, yukking it up.Kamala Harris, our Vice President and appointed Border Czar, has never made it to our southern border overrun by thousands of illegals swarming int… Read More
2024-03-13 12:46
It takes one male and one female to make a baby. Can we all agree to that? It's not my opinion, it's a fact and has been a fact since the beginning of time. You know, Adam and Eve and… Read More
2024-03-12 12:11
Typical Democrat voterCome on, admit it: Biden's State of the Union speech was a freak show. An angry old man high on a speed cocktail that had him yelling insanely from start to finish… Read More
2024-03-11 15:16
We asked for his name, but he refused.Yesterday my husband and I embarked on a trip to the Twilight Zone. It was not fun. After getting up at four in the morning for a 9:30AM flight a t… Read More
2024-03-08 15:34
Last night in his State of the Union speech Joe Biden painted a picture of an imaginary America where everything is fabulous! I wish I lived there. In Joe's world, all the people are happy a… Read More
2024-03-07 14:09
Let me say at the outset that I watched The Crown, twice in fact, and loved every minute of it --okay, not the episodes about Diana, but all the rest. Still, even though Princess Kate has be… Read More
2024-03-05 12:51
Months ago my husband contacted a high-school girlfriend he saw on Facebook. Recalling their sweet childhood friendship, he inquired how she was doing. Her response soon after was, "Are you… Read More
2024-03-01 13:31
Richard Lewis, truly one of a kind.Sadly, the comic genius and resulting hilarity of Richard Lewis will no longer be available to lift our spirits, except in reruns of course. Lewis died of… Read More
2024-02-28 15:16
Poor old Joe. Everyone thinks he is responsible for the mess this country has become since he took office. But seriously, does anyone really believe that he, a loser with a history of doing… Read More
2024-02-26 13:47
My husband and I recently attended a local screening of the five Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Short Film. As expected they were woke as hell, since Hollywood wants nothing more than t… Read More
2024-02-24 01:07
A recent report at NPR News states that Israel and Hamas are embarking on talks in Paris to negotiate a six-week cease-fire: "According to the Egyptian officials, some prisoners serving… Read More
2024-02-23 14:35
Judging by the lawn signs here in my little town of Freeport, Maine, population 1,848, black lives no longer matter, except to two families on Pine Street and a few more in the outlying area… Read More
2024-02-22 14:32
I saw an old friend yesterday, someone I hadn't seen in several months. After the usual greetings and opening pleasantries, we got down to business: "So, what are you watching?" There'… Read More
2024-02-21 14:17
I just received a belated Christmas Letter from a friend who explains she was late sending it out because she was traveling and gives the details: January in Mexico and NYC; May in Sicily; J… Read More
2024-02-20 22:09
Dr. Jill and Joe Biden hosting their biggest donors.I heard on the news that Joe Biden's reelection campaign raised $42 million just in the month of January. That's crazy talk! Who is throwi… Read More
2024-02-19 22:40
There's a new movie scheduled to arrive sometime in April or May, and the trailer for it are running on YouTube now. I watched it and was only slightly worried since it seems to me America h… Read More
2024-02-19 13:34
I once spent time with a woman who lives on my street. We pretended to be friends but never were, mostly because she was incapable of discussing anything real. So we skimmed the surface, get… Read More
2024-02-15 23:04
The worst part of growing old is that most of your friends are doing it too. I say most, because a bunch of them are already dead. In fact, that's the real drag. And while you can certainly… Read More
2024-02-14 21:12
I went shopping for a Valentine's Day card for my husband, even though we both agreed beforehand no cards. Or gifts. Since it's a dumb holiday and brings to mind a mob shooting in Chicago in… Read More
2024-02-14 00:07
Last night I had the misfortune of spending fours hours in an emergency room. I was ready for it, having read Dante's Inferno in college -- I think the ER was like the Fifth or Sixth Circle… Read More
2024-02-11 18:40
Painting Donald Trump as a geezer just like Joe Biden, a front-page headline on today's New York Times reads, "Views Are Split On Candidates Of Similar Age." All I can say about th… Read More
2024-02-10 01:12
I never liked Joe Biden, even when he was young. Hardly anyone did. How could you? He's always been a lying, cheating racist! Yet here he is, holding our highest office in the land and makin… Read More
2024-02-09 21:23
Writing this blog is a daily challenge, one that I often pass on when no subject seems interesting enough to be a worthy read for a wide range of people. Apparently the chief editors at the… Read More
2024-02-08 22:24
The old adage that no two snowflakes are alike is true about the ones that fall from the sky, but the other kind -- people who became young adults in the 2010s -- are all cookie-cutter repro… Read More
2024-02-05 13:21
This morning, while checking my Facebook page, I saw that I had received a "notification," which usually means a comment from someone about something I had posted. It might be positive or ne… Read More
2024-02-04 15:26
A man named John has been posting videos of himself eating raw chicken since January 19. He says he will continue to do so until he gets sick. So far all is well. At least in his tummy. In h… Read More
2024-02-03 21:44
Parents hold up pictures of their children who died because of social media.Go ahead, think of a brilliant and successful genius who is not hated by the general public. Take your time. Okay… Read More
2024-02-01 15:35
Come on people, you know Joe Biden is not running the country. He's old, frail, feeble, forgetful and can barely utter a sensible sentence. Whenever he is on a stage, which is almost never… Read More
2024-02-01 00:45
I received a comment on a recent blog post accusing me of having "TDS" for writing, "I don't hate Donald Trump. I don't even dislike him."That guy got it backwards. In fact, Trump Deran… Read More
2024-01-30 16:41
Lindsey Vonn not skiing.It has long been true that certain people have no respect for themselves or others. I would put all nudists in this category, even though they think they are really "… Read More
2024-01-29 13:22
I was once right in the middle of everything. I went to Woodstock. I was a hippie. I smoked pot and listened to all the big rock bands and saw all the big movies and knew everything that was… Read More
2024-01-29 00:21
Documentary fans will be delighted, and those new to the genre will be won over, with this fascinating look into the creation of the world's largest telescope that has been exploring our uni… Read More
2024-01-27 15:06
Hey, I want $83 million too! And who knows, maybe Donald Trump raped me a million years ago also -- you know it's possible he was in a raping frame of mind. I was very attractive back then a… Read More
2024-01-26 00:34
In 1983 I accepted the job of Art Director of the Oakland Tribune, in Oakland, California. I had never been there but the title was good, the money was great, and that was my field of endeav… Read More
2024-01-24 13:29
In a perfect world, our candidates for president would be in their late 40s or early 50s. They would be honest, super-intelligent, brave, self-confident and maybe even a tad boring. But the… Read More
2024-01-23 19:35
The latest buzz word for Democrats when speaking of Donald Trump is "chaos." Despite his first term as president having been pretty damn good, still it was allegedly "chaotic." Presidential… Read More
2024-01-22 23:26
I have long suspected that general practitioners in the medical field, the once-cozy Family Doctor having morphed into the more serious-sounding Primary Care Physician (PCP), are now little… Read More
2024-01-21 22:29
An actress named Julia Fox, who I have never seen perform and so have no idea if she has talent, is desperate for attention so I guess she doesn't. As is evident in the photo at right of Ms… Read More
2024-01-21 02:46
How to elect a president....Today I spoke with a woman at a local political event who was 100% positive that Joe Biden would not be the Democratic candidate in 2024, and instead would be rep… Read More
2024-01-19 14:53
I am old enough to think about my funeral arrangements. Of course, everyone at any age is old enough for that, but the popular misconception still exists that only old people die. (I did not… Read More
2024-01-17 23:09
CNN reporters Jake Tapper and Dana BashOh dear -- the level of misinformation, disinformation and just plain idiocy that is the very basis of the Democratic Party is almost as scary as the t… Read More
2024-01-16 16:35
Every cloud has a silver lining in Gaza. As our parents age, naturally we worry about how to care for them should they become infirm or unable to generate an income. Just yesterday my o… Read More
2024-01-15 14:31
Today most working Americans will have the day off in order to celebrate a very important holiday that gets right to the heart of our national desire for diversity, equity and inclusion: It'… Read More
2024-01-14 14:01
Dominic Tessa as Angus, being miserable.One of those sappy-but-instructive tales about how the connection between two lost souls can improve both lives, director Alex Payne's The Holdovers h… Read More
2024-01-11 17:43
It's official: I no longer relate to the world. I have never heard a Taylor Swift song. I don't like football so have no idea who her boyfriend is, although I know his last name is Kelce. Ye… Read More
2024-01-08 18:14
Some days it's hard to keep going. Those are days when the wall I have built between my brain and reality thins out or even retracts completely, allowing the awful truth of the world to seep… Read More
2024-01-05 20:17
You don't have to walk around carrying a torch or wearing a white sheet or waving a Confederate flag to be a white supremacist. There are so many subtle ways this dreadful condition takes ho… Read More
2024-01-05 13:57
Claudine Gay, the black Harvard University president who ultimately resigned after much unpleasantness is now claiming that she was targeted, never mind the Jews, because of her race. O… Read More
2024-01-04 18:47
Here's one approach to living: Build your house underground and stay there.There's only one way to keep from sliding into a pit of despair and staying there forever: Wear blinders. Not… Read More
2024-01-03 13:42
Lisa and her LipsLisa Rinna, an actress of little talent whose claim to fame, besides being married to Harry Hamlin, an actor of some talent, is her outlandishly large cartoony lips she had… Read More
2024-01-03 01:00
Earlier today I came across a person whose gender was completely indeterminable. First I thought it was a woman, but soon enough I became convinced it was male. This went on for some time, u… Read More
2023-12-31 18:39
Go blow your nose, something is dripping out of it and making me nauseous.....Once again it's time for those "what's in and what's out" lists written by arrogant newspaper editors, as if the… Read More
2023-12-29 16:13
Sexy, pathetic, deranged 81-year-old MarthaYoung wholesome MarthaMartha Stewart, once a wholesome home decorating, flower-arranging and cooking maven, is now 82 years old and stays busy… Read More
2023-12-26 16:35
As the latest, trendiest, progressive (i.e. Democrat), embrace of antisemitism sweeps wildly across the world, a realistic look at what's going on right here in America is perhaps called for… Read More
2023-12-23 23:12
Oh god, where to start? There are so many things wrong with Maestro, now streaming on Netflix, it's hard to choose. But Bradley Cooper's fake nose (to make him look more Jewish, how nic… Read More
2023-12-21 22:43
Hate has no home here! We are all one people! We should all accept our differences and love one another -- blacks and whites, Native Americans and Congolese, Jews and Christians! That is, as… Read More
2023-12-19 15:13
I googled "achievements of Palestinians" and found none, zip, nil, nada. Then I googled "achievements of Jews" and found everything you use and wear, all life-saving medical devices, e… Read More
2023-12-13 21:27
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who may be Chinese, Japanese, Tongan, Asian or Korean, I can never tell all those people apart, is hosting a Christmas party this evening for a long-standing group… Read More
2023-12-12 23:21
Rhymes with witch.I hate to be considered a Luddite, but I'm thinking maybe it's time to go back to the old way of doing things. For example, hiring for positions of power based on merit rat… Read More
2023-12-11 20:01
I woke up feeling suicidal and not in the mood for my dental cleaning scheduled for 1 pm today. The dentist's office being a 30-minute drive away, I'd have to stay focused long enough to get… Read More
2023-12-11 14:40
A small art gallery here in town is offering the entire space for week-long rentals next year. The application form includes the stipulation that the show must "focus on community inclusion… Read More
2023-12-10 17:55
Julia Roberts sinks to a new low in Leave the World Behind, just starting a run on Netflix. Not only is her performance amateurish, but she looks like a haggard crone in this depressing tale… Read More
2023-12-09 23:15
Moore and Melton as the happy couple.Now streaming on Netflix, MAY DECEMBER sounds better than it is. It is loosely based on the scandalous 1996 incident when a married teacher had an affair… Read More
2023-12-08 14:11
The lie that going to college after high school is necessary in order to succeed in life has been disproven over and over. As most people know already, our richest business leaders all dropp… Read More
2023-12-05 18:51
Now showing at Harvard UniversityEarlier today I watched part of a televised congressional hearing, during which the current president of Harvard University was questioned about the school's… Read More
2023-12-05 15:39
As if we all don't have enough to worry about, what with wars, climate change, Covid and RSV, rampant crime, a demented President, a mentally challenged Vice Preside… Read More
2023-12-04 13:10
"In recent weeks, detailed reports of widespread rape and violence against women on Oct. 7 have begun to emerge. A report published in the U.K.’s Sunday Times relay… Read More
2023-12-03 16:26
Brenda Lee today, at home in Nashville.Every Sunday morning my husband goes out to buy the New York Times, a newspaper so biased and smug it almost makes me throw up my breakfast, in order t… Read More
2023-12-02 17:31
A few nights ago I attended a meeting of the Freeport Republicans held at the local Masonic Lodge. As is always the case, there was coffee, bottles of water and an array of treats, like brow… Read More
2023-11-30 02:53
We can all agree that God gave each of us many good things, starting with a body including a head, arms, legs and lots of complex internal organs to make the whole thing work. He just forgot… Read More
2023-11-27 16:30
Leo and Angela are not happy......Fans of Ray Romano's popular sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond may be surprised to see him so unloved by most of his family in this sometimes depressing but st… Read More
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