"If our ups and downs in our marriage can help young couples sort of realize that good marriages take work ... It's unfair to project a kind of perfection that doesn't exist." First Lady , Michelle Obama, The New York Times, Nov 1 2009

I was so excited to read...

"If our ups and downs in our marriage can help young couples sort of realize that that good marriages take work... it's unfair to project a kind of perfection that doesn't exist." -- First Lady , Michelle Obama, in The New York Times, November 1st, 2009

I was so excited...

"We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!" That's the phrase news anchor Howard Beale intoned in Paddy Chayevsky's prescient satirical movie, Network, made back in 1973. Watch it now and you'd think it was filmed last week. Everyone is up in arms about...

Last night, as per usual since my pension plan became a 401 no-K at all, I was lying awake considering the possible scenarios for my families future. On the one hand, we could turn our backyard into a coffee plantation, sell our product to neighborhood frugalistas who are still p.c....

Yesterday brought exciting news for many Screen Actor Guild members who voted to elect candidates endorsed by and representing our interests who banded together to form the group Unite for Strength and to unseat board members affiliated with the faction known as Membership First. This vote for change could be...

Last week, the Congress approved an economic stimulus package that should send approximately $1,500 dollars to my family. Wow, what to do with it? My first thought was to sock it away, but I read that saving the money won't help stimulate the economy and I want to do my...

Seen, heard and observed on the picket line in Los Angeles as the Writers Guild of America strike enters its second week:

Too much enthusiasm: Writers picketing in Che Guevara T-shirts
Too little enthusiasm: Writers picketing with Blackberries and cell phones

Too much fun: Walking the line with everyone...

Last Halloween, I corralled my son into making a blatantly left-wing statement. We went out trick-or-treating dressed as hobos carrying homemade signs that read respectively, "Will Work for Healthcare Benefits" and "Brother Can you Spare a Million?" Oh, how our neighbors laughed and showered us with candy, which I judiciously...

This just in: according to two new studies measuring the happiness index, women are less happy than we used to be and markedly more disgruntled than men. Speculation has been that this study confirms what most of my friends and I experience as the current state of postfeminist feminism. Between...

I was sitting on a plane Tuesday, flipping through the channels on my seatback TV: makeover show, makeover show, home decorating tips, CNN breaking news story on a fire, Maria Bartiromo has great hair.

Wait a minute. Gee, that CNN shot looked familiar.

I flipped back. It was my neighborhood....

I admit it. I am not immune to the lurid lure of reality TV. My all-time favorite show so far was The Starlet. Call it an occupational hazard, but on the two occasions that I tuned in, I couldn't take my eyes off of it and I have never laughed...

There's a lot of talk going around about the upcoming mid term elections and the future of the Democratic Party. Suggestions have ranged from the notion that perhaps its not the best thing for the Party to win control of the House and Senate to suggesting possible campaign slogans like...

A few days ago, I opened my New York Times to the spot which used to be occupied by the admittedly silly, vacuously addictive but frequently entertaining column known as Boldface Names only to see -- it was still gone. In its place was an article about the former EPA...

The initial wave of flowers delivered to mark the birth of my son bore cards that read, "We can't wait to meet him." As word of the dire condition in which he arrived into this world spread, a second wave of cards arrived announcing, "we're praying for you."

Only a...

Dear Larry: Having read about your departure from Harvard I thought I'd inquire as to how you are holding up. I myself was once fired by Woody Allen who is considered by many to be the premiere American comedian and with Harvard being the premiere American educational institution I think...