Welcome back to The Grapes of Wrath on Huffington Post Divorce, where I chronicle the many bottles of wine I've enjoyed since leaving my ex-husband, and regale you with a story or two inspired by the elixir of the Gods. I've consumed over 10,000 bottles (only slight hyperbole) since I...

Welcome to my new series, The Grapes of Wrath on Huffington Post Divorce, where I chronicle the many bottles of wine I've enjoyed since leaving my ex-husband, and regale you with a story or two inspired by the elixir of the Gods. I've consumed over 10,000 bottles (only slight hyperbole)...

Watching the Health Care Summit this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to hear Republican Tom Coburn making constructively critical, cogent points, backed up by facts that appear to actually be facts. So I'd like to briefly offer a few personal anecdotes to back up his complaints as an MD about...

President Obama announced today that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring and that he hopes to fill his seat before October. Here are three judges I think would be great candidates. I hope the Prez will take my advice seriously.

1.) Judge Judy

Okay, I'll admit it, I'm not the type of gal who normally pays attention to what's going on at The Whitney. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy a good piece of art as much as the next dude, but The Whitney never really piqued my interest. That all...

...But why, then, is it so funny?

I feel it my patriotic duty to weigh in on the Spitzer scandal, since after all I am both an American citizen and a native of New York State... unlike my husband, a resident ALIEN, who said last night that he didn't...

As I sat stuck in traffic on 14th street on my way to see the one and only Barack Obama yesterday, I was thinking, "God, I should have gotten here earlier." It was 3:30 p.m. on a Thursday -- Senator Obama was still in Washington -- and already he was...

The plight of the Jena 6 and Mychal Bell in particular was all over the news last week, with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and thousands of other black activists scaring the hell out of marching on that tiny Louisiana town. But why are they there? There's no race problem in...

NEW YORK, NY -- Bill O'Reilly was all smiles this Sunday as he watched the New York Jets edge out the Miami Dolphins at the Meadowlands. "I can't believe the game was so sportsmanlike," he said. "With all those big, black men on the field, I was sure someone would...

As a child, my mother and I lived with my grandparents. I never thought of that arrangement as foreign or unusual. It was just as if I had three parents; the older ones and the one who worked all the time. Of course I didn't understand why my mother worked...