The headlines are abuzz with the gleeful news that yet another man has betrayed yet another woman. Governor Sanford let loose with a 20-minute statement that was as selfish and self-pitying as any I have heard, well on the nightly news that is. I have unfortunately heard it before and...

It has been 6 days since our 44th president took the oath of office and my feet are still cold. I was one of the 2 million folks who braved the elements to attend this historic occasion. I have been to a Presidential Inauguration before, so I knew full well...

Sexism. Corporate malfeasance. Ageism. Wage inequality. These are all issues at the forefront of the progressive battlefield. Hollywood leaders as well as the rank and file have given a great deal of their time and money to defeat these abuses in the corporate world. It is ironic that these very...

With Thanksgiving around the corner, I thought it would be a good time to take stock of the stockless. To check in with the realities of a crippled economy and how we are coping with this big ole reality check.

I have talked to friends from all over the country...

I kneel before you America
To ask for your hand
You have taught me to pray
For X-ray vision and for all our souls

Months now waking in the dark
Fearful that the new day will not dawn
Waiting for your return

"When do we vote?" Elizabeth "Libba" Grant must have asked this a dozen times over the past few weeks. She had been transferred to Palliative care and she knew better than anyone that the end was near. At eighty-one years of age she figured this was only fair, but she...

It's definitely new and might be rightly characterized as modern to see Sarah Palin on the Republican ticket, but that is where any relationship to this century ends. Except for her questionable taste in wardrobe her entire being is representative of days gone by. I cannot for the life...

John McCain has it in spades ... the glow. He used to carry himself with a sort of dour dignity, but now he is walking around with a shit eating grin that says "Hot diggity dog!" He has the look of someone hypnotized, staring at Mrs. Palin's backside as she...

Why have the democrats turned into a bunch of nervous nellies? We have EVERY reason to believe that we will be victorious in November and yet the hand wringing, second guessing, fear of failure set is still dominating the dialogue.

Time and again the press pushes a button and we...

Dear President Clinton;

Sir with all due respect, (and given your recent behavior I am not certain that much is due), I am writing to ask you to stop obsessing with the notion that "we" think you are a racist. "We" don't think you are a racist....

Those are the last words on the screen of the ad I just filmed depicting the very real consequences of the Insurance Industry's mal-practices. I have not done a television commercial in well at least 20 years and the only one I ever booked was a cereal ad in which...

Awake last night at 3 AM on the final eve of a primary contest that has redefined American politics. It has also redefined me as a Democrat and a citizen. I have worried and wondered, I have threatened and cajoled. I have shared the breathless anticipation of today's outcome with...

I am writing to some of my friends who are friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The blessed and beleaguered FOBs, who are hanging in there whether you want to or not. Many of you have confided to me that you want out. Many of you have admitted that you...

Saturday evening and Sunday Mass looms, calling me ... calling me home. The Catholic Church and I are wide apart on many of the" issues" of today, but on Sunday morning it is my family, my heart, my solace ... it is where I go to see the face of...

Girl rage ...it's all the rage. Hillary Clinton and her supporters have won exactly 10 delegates by assaulting their opponent with the kind of tactics that warm Karl Rove's heart. Ah the sweet victory of vitriol. These folks really will say anything, do anything to win and that is why...

As the race for the future unfolds it is interesting to note that there is a change in tone. Voices young and old, left and right, are softening and a new civility can be heard in the declarations of all but the incurably bitter.

Hate is not the moniker...

Bill Clinton has done it again. I am having political dejavu. His recent behavior has once again taken my good faith and high opinion of him and crushed it. Just months ago I had forgotten the more torturous details of his administration and had come to respect him again as...

Well the Swift Boat Veterans are at it again. Their impact continues to define our concept of what constitutes a 527 or a PAC . To some the very thought of a PAC/527 conjures images of vicious attack ads and underhanded tactics. The truth is there are 527's of many...

The sun is out in full force and so are the ladies who lunch. A rainbow collection of women of every race and age has assembled in the garden. The place is movie-set magical. There are streamers and artwork everywhere, and the fragrance of flowers permeates. Gardenias and peonies and...

My Father is a Republican. As I am an avowed Progressive and longtime activist, this has made for some lively discussions over the years. Our family divides along political lines in such a way that if each of us voted at the same time, in the same place, we would...